Thousands of people have come to the burning chapel of María Jiménezinstalled in the city hall of Seville to say goodbye to an “unrepeatable woman” and that this morning has closed its doors.

Now, the city of Seville fulfills one of the last wishes of the artist. The coffin will leave the Town Hall in a horse-drawn carriage, escorted by two Local Police motorists, 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. One last walk through the neighborhood where he was born and died.

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 San Fernando cemetery, mainly to through the axis of Torneo street.

Emotion and a lot of art in his farewell

Without definitive data yet on attendance at the burning chapel, at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday there were more than 30,000 people who had visited it.

He Mayor of Seville, José Luis Sanzlamented 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”.

In addition, Sanz announced that the Seville City Council is already looking for a “space” around Calle Betis, with which to honor the figure of María Jiménez, a “universal artist who led her city and her neighborhood of Triana as her flag “.

Alejandro Jiménez, the son of María Jiménez, 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 his profession. That’s the most beautiful thing.”

The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, 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 claim legacy in favor of women”, supporting the foundation created around her figure, in order to “revitalize” the artist’s footprint.

Regarding the possibility of being awarded the Gold Medal of Andalusia posthumously, Moreno recalled that a technical commission is in charge of “assessing” this type of recognition. “It will be taken into account. It may be,” she has indicated.