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Agramonte Cemetery is a cemetery in Porto, em Portugal.

History
The cemetery was inaugurated in 1855, in Porto's western zone. The cemetery's chapel was built between 1870 and 1874, projected by engineer Gustavo Adolfo Gonçalves, and enlarged in 1906 by architect José Marques da Silva. In this cemetery, just like in Porto's Prado do Repouso, coexists three private graveyards, each originally belonging to three Religious Orders: Ordem do Carmo, São Francisco and Trindade. The Bizantium-style frescos were made by Italian painter Silvestro Silvestri in 1910.

Several notable people are buried in Agramonte, like Conde de Ferreira, sculptor Henrique Moreira, o archeologist António Augusto da Rocha Peixoto, a cello player Guilhermina Suggia and filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira. Some of the graves, featuring work by António Soares dos Reis and António Teixeira Lopes, are a representative collection of Portuguese sculpture.

Notable burials

 * Aarão de Lacerda (1890-1947), writer;
 * Abigail de Paiva Cruz (1883-1944), painter, sculptress and activist;
 * Agostinho de Campos (1870-1944), writer, journalist and teacher;
 * Antero de Figueiredo (1866-1953), writer;
 * António Augusto da Rocha Peixoto (1866-1909), archeologist e ethnologist;
 * António Carneiro (1872-1930), painter, poet and teacher;
 * António Nicolau d'Almeida (1873-1948), founder of FC Porto;
 * António Patrício (1878-1930), writer and diplomat;
 * Arménio Taveira Losa (1908-1988), architect;
 * Artur de Magalhães Basto (1894-1960), professor and historian;
 * Augusto de Castro (1883-1971), lawyer, journalist, diplomat and politician;
 * Berta Alves de Sousa (1906-1997), pianist and composer;
 * Carolina Michaëlis (1851-1925), writer and teacher;
 * Clara de Resende (1855-1933), painter;
 * Cláudio Carneyro (1895-1963), composer;
 * Conde da Trindade (1805-1890), nobleman;
 * Diogo José Cabral (1864-1923), entrepeneur, politician and philanthropist;
 * Dominguez Alvarez (1906-1942), painter;
 * Edgar Cardoso (1913-2000), civil engineer;
 * Emília Eduarda (1843-1908), actress, poet, dramatist, writer and publicist;
 * Emílio Biel (1838-1915), entrepeneur e photographer;
 * Fernando Cabral (1928-2008), politician;
 * Ferrer Loureiro (1930-1994), entrepeneur, politician e engineer;
 * Francisco da Silva Gouveia (1872-1951), sculptor;
 * Francisco José Resende (1825-1893), painter, sculptor and professor;
 * Francisco Pinto Bessa (1821-1878), politician;
 * Gonçalo Sampaio (1865-1937), professor, anthropologist and botanist;
 * Guilherme Braga (1845-1874), poet;
 * Guilhermina Suggia (1885-1950), cellist;
 * Helena Balsemão (1850-1903), actress;
 * Helena Sá e Costa (1913-2006), pianist e teacher;
 * Henrique Moreira (1890-1979), sculptor;
 * Jaime Isidoro (1924-2009), painter;
 * Joaquim Ferreira dos Santos (1782-1866), entrepeneur, merchant and philantropist;
 * José Frutuoso Aires de Gouveia Osório (1827-1887), medical doctor and politician;
 * José Guilherme Pacheco (1821-1889), lawyer and politician;
 * José Sardinha (1845-1906), architect;
 * Júlio Dinis (1839-1871), writer and medical doctor;
 * Lino Henrique Bento de Sousa (1857-1921), merchant and philantropist;
 * Luís Costa (1879-1960), composer, pianist e pedagogue;
 * Madalena Sotto (1916-2016), actress;
 * Manoel de Oliveira (1908-2015), filmmaker;
 * Miguel Ângelo Pereira (1843-1901), composer and pianist;
 * Miguel Veiga (1936-2016), lawyer and politician;
 * Nicolau Medina Ribas (1832-1900), composer and cellist;
 * Pedro Blanco López (1883-1919), composer, pianist and professor;
 * Pedro de Oliveira (1823-1883), architect;
 * Ricardo Jorge (1858-1939), medical doctor, researcher, hygienist, professor and pioneering writer on public health;

Memorial on the Teatro Baquet victims
In remembrance of the 1888 Teatro Baquet fire and its victims, Agramonte Cemetery erected a memorial mausoleum. It consists of a gigantic arch with materials from the Teatro Baquet building, stacks of fire-twisted iron, and a huge crown, symbolizing the death of its 120 victims. References 