At 8:30 p.m. there were more than 30,000 people who had visited the funeral chapel, which will reopen two hours before the funeral
SEVILLA, 7 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
At 10:00 p.m. this Thursday night, the burning chapel installed in Seville City Hall closed its doors to house the mortal remains of the famous Seville artist María Jiménez, who died at the age of 73, after its opening on the 1:00 p.m., a day during which several tens of thousands of people have paraded through the Apeadero Hall of the Town Hall to say their last goodbye to the artist.
The coffin of the Sevillian artist, who died this morning, arrived at the Town Hall from the SE-30 funeral home a few minutes before the funeral chapel opened, around 1:00 p.m.
Among the first personalities to approach the funeral chapel was the journalist Carlos Herrera, who in statements to the media highlighted María Jiménez as “always opening her heart generously.” He has described her as “humanly incomparable” and as a “tremendous artist, an artist in everything she did, an irrepressible volcano of feelings.”
The mayor of Seville, José Luis Sanz, has clearly visited the funeral chapel, lamenting the loss of “an artist, with a strength like no other” and recalling that she was recognized with the city’s Gold Medal, “which will always remember her, as will all of Spain.”
Furthermore, Sanz has announced that the Seville City Council is already looking for a “space” in the area around Betis Street, with which to honor the figure of María Jiménez, a “universal artist who led her city and her neighborhood of Triana through flag”.
Alejandro Jiménez, María Jiménez’s son, has remembered his mother as a woman who “has not been a know-it-all. She has lived and suffered a lot, to the fullest, and has reached the nirvana of her profession. That is the most pretty”.
The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, has also visited the funeral chapel, remarking that this “unique artist” always displayed “such a strong, solid and free personality that has contributed so much to Andalusia and Spain.”
Moreno has highlighted that María Jiménez has been “a unique and unrepeatable woman”, ensuring that the Board will “support her artistic, social and advocacy legacy in favor of women”, supporting the foundation created around her figure, in order to “revitalize” the artist’s mark.
Regarding the possibility of being awarded the Gold Medal of Andalusia posthumously, Moreno recalled that a technical commission is in charge of “evaluating” this type of recognition. “It will be taken into account. It may be,” she indicated.
Around 8:30 p.m. in the afternoon, the Seville City Council estimated that more than 30,000 people had already passed through the burning chapel to pay their respects to the late artist, since this Friday, the burning chapel will be open between 8 and 10 o’clock.
Next, around 10:45 a.m., the coffin will leave the City Hall in a horse-drawn carriage, escorted by two motorists from the Local Police, bound for the parish of Santa Ana, in Triana; walking through the streets Hernando Colón, Alemanes, García de Vinuesa, Arfe, Antonia Díaz, Paseo de Cristóbal Colón, the Triana bridge, the Plaza del Altozano, Pureza and Santa Ana.
The funeral will be held in said temple starting at 11:30 a.m. and once the funeral mass is over, around 12:30 p.m., the coffin will be reinstalled in the horse-drawn carriage to be driven, finally, to the cemetery of San Fernando, mainly through the axis of Torneo Street.
