Mijas will renovate and expand the La Purísima cemetery

The Mijas Town Council will allocate 860,000 euros to the renovation and expansion of the La Purísima cemetery in Mijas Pueblo. In fact, the execution project has already been carried out following a public tender by the company Cadisa, and the purpose is to improve the services provided by the facility, respecting the existing design but updating its image. The project includes the creation of a new building to house two wake rooms, a refrigeration chamber, office space, a furnace for exhumations, and other ancillary uses such as toilets, as reported by the councilor in charge of Cemeteries, María Francisca Alarcón, through a statement. For all this, the demolition of the current administration room and toilet is planned. The chapel, which has an area of 64 square meters, will be maintained, and two larger tanatosalas will be built, one of 45 square meters and another of 35 square meters. The execution period of the works, once awarded, will be six months. The rear circulation of the space is also being expanded through an independent corridor, and a new tanatoplasty room of 24 square meters is proposed. On the other hand, the project includes a space for staff offices, where they can attend to taxpayers and users, equipped with an independent toilet with a shower, and another separate room where an exhumation furnace will be located. Additionally, the execution of another structure for the expansion area is proposed, which must consider the roof slopes to adapt to the chapel's roof. Likewise, the area of the exhumation furnace will have a four-sloped roof adapting to the height of the toilet block.