Flowers in memory of Don Julio – Diario Vasco

At noon yesterday, a delegation entered the Navarra town cemetery for a simple wreath, as a form of tribute to Julio Caro Baroja, the centenary of his birth, which was carried out exactly Thursday November 13.

When are marking the txistularis Bera, authorities and neighbors roamed the cemetery to reach the opposite to the main entrance, next to the cemetery where the family Baroja end, and the expected Pamplona Choral Society.

In the cemetery lie the remains of the anthropologist, who died in 1995, along with those of Serafin Baroja and Zornoza, Carmen Nessi and Goñi, Julia Uzcudun (maid or housekeeper Carmen) and Ricardo Baroja Nessi.

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Along with the nephews of Don Julio and Carmen Pio Caro Jaureguialzo, presided over the ceremony the President of Navarra, Yolanda Ginger, along with the mayor of Bera, Marisol Tavern. Also people linked to the figure of Caro Baroja, including the secretary of IES Julio Caro Baroja Pamplona, ​​Beatriz Martinez, president of the Society for Historical Studies of Navarre, Pedro Lozano Bartolozzi were, also placed bouquets as tribute. After depositing a mall and several bouquets of flowers, Pamplonés Choir played ‘Aita gurea’ at a time of maximum respect also wanted to follow other local residents, many of them personal friends of Don Julio.

“They have brought a lot of flowers, but they do not know is that he just wanted hydrangeas,” said Ignacio Iraizoz friend of Julio Caro Baroja and his family. “As a single man he was, used to say that those were her favorite flowers.”

“You have right about hydrangeas. And so there is no Lagerstroemia (a type of shrub), which itself brought the day of his funeral, and that of his mother, because they had in Itzea “says Rosemarie Errandonea, neighbor and friend Bera Don Julio. They shared with him many times and so emphatic claim that “are you still longing for. It might seem a little distant, but it was a very close, loving and humorous “man.

At his funeral the coffin anthropologist left Itzea, the house of Baroja, on the shoulders of four young bachelors people who lived closest to him as yet represent the tradition.

Probably this does not happen again yesterday when the cemetery was preparing to welcome two new neighbors dead. One precisely second cousin to Don Julio’s nephews, was to be buried yesterday afternoon virtually opposite the Pantheon. The undertaker began his work in the morning, when told of the act was to be performed, to continue later.

After the wreath yesterday acts moved to the House Culture Bera, what exactly is named Julio Caro Baroja ‘. In its auditorium residents and visitors could hear a tribute concert featuring the Pamplonés Choir, who performed a program consisting of sacred and secular works and popular music, with piano accompaniment by Diana Yerro and under the direction of Igor Ijurra. Music clip was an emotional day of remembrance to Caro for their neighbors.