Il bacio della morte - Poblenou Cemetery, Barcelona

Il bacio della morte 

Poblenou Cemetery, Barcelona

Located at Barcelona's Poblenou Cemetery, this magnificent sculpture, titled Kiss of Death, depicts death (in the form of a winged skeleton) planting a kiss on a young man's forehead. According to the story, in 1930, the Llaudet family was mourning the death of their son and created this sculpture for his tomb. 

The epitaph bears famous verses by one of Catalan's greatest poets, Jacint Verdaguer: 

“And his young heart can not help; 
in his veins the blood stops and freezes 
and encouragement lost faith embraces 
fall feeling the kiss of death”