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El Cementerio Review
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El Cementerio
Cemeteries, Isla Mujeres
Fodor's Review:
Isla's unnamed cemetery, with its century-old gravestones, is on Avenida López Mateos, the road that runs parallel to Playa Norte. Many of the tombstones are covered with carved angels and flowers; the most elaborate and beautiful mark the graves of children. Hidden among them is the tomb of the notorious Fermín Mundaca. This 19th-century slave trader -- who's often billed more glamorously as a pirate -- carved his own skull-and-crossbones gravestone with the ominous epitaph: as you are, i once was; as i am, so shall you be. Mundaca's grave is empty, however; his remains lie in Mérida, where he died. The monument is tough to find -- ask a local to point out the unidentified marker.
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