Panteón Jardín ("Garden Cemetery") is ónJardía cemetery in Mexico City in which several notable people are interred. It is located in the southwest of the city, between the San Ángel and Olivar de los Padres boroughs.
It is a garden cemetery, built in what used to be the outskirts of the city in the 1930s. It's wide central boulevard leads to a small hill in the back. It's near 150 acres are used mostly for Catholic burials, but has a special section for Jewish ones, called La Fraternidad (The Fraternity). Since 1946, another section belongs to the National Association of Actors (National Association of Actors), used mainly for actors and actresses. It has a capacity of 85,000 graves. It's non-denominational, and even as a private cemetery, it's open to the public.
Notable people buried here are artists, musicians, actors and actresses, politicians and presidents. This makes it a tourist attraction and pilgrimage site for the fans of popular culture Mexican actors, specially from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, like Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete and Pedro Armendariz. Every April 15, a multitude of up to 7,000 people come to the grave of Pedro Infante paying homage to the beloved actor, bringing flowers and photos, playing music with mariachis and riding motorcycles.
Notable burials
Artists and painters
Cordelia Urueta
Dalla Husband
Francisco Díaz de León
Guillermo Meza
Luis Cernuda - Spanish poet
Mercedes Pinto - Spanish writer
Raúl Anguiano
Remedios Varo
Xavier Guerrero
Actors
Alejandra Meyer
Amalia Aguilar
Andrés Soler
Ángel Garasa
Arturo de Córdova
Blanca Estela Pavón
Carlos López Moctezuma
David Silva (actor) Domingo Soler Elvira Quintana Esperanza Iris Enrique Lizalde Enrique Rambal Enriqueta Reza Esperanza Iris Esther Fernández Fanny Cano Fernando Soto «Mantequilla» Francisco Avitia «El Charro» Germán Valdés «Tin-Tán» Gloria Marín Gonzalo Vega Javier Solís Joaquín Pardavé Jorge Negrete Julián Soler
Manuel Noriega Ruiz
Mercedes Soler
Miguel Aceves Mejía
Ninón Sevilla
Norma Angélica Ladrón de Guevara
Ofelia Montesco
Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo
Pina Pellicer
Pedro Armendariz
Pedro Armendáriz Jr. Pedro Infante Prudencia Grifell Salvador Flores Rivera «Chava Flores» Tito Junco Toña la Negra
Musicians
Álvaro Carrillo
Alfonso Esparza Oteo
Gonzalo Curiel
Pepe Guízar
Tomás Méndez
Others
Adolfo López Mateos and his wife Eva Sámano - Former Mexican president and First Lady Daniel Cosío Villegas - Economist and scholar Elena Arizmendi Mejía - Neutral White Cross founder Guillermo González Camarena - Inventor of a type of color television Gustavo Díaz Ordaz and his wife Guadalupe Borja - Former Mexican president and First Lady José Miguel Noguera - Football player Kid Azteca - Boxer Kingo Nonaka - Bullfighter María Teresa Pomar - Folk art scholar Manuel Palafox - Politician and soldier