Pushed for space, a Spanish cemetery has begun placing stickers on thousands of burial sites whose leases are up as a warning to relatives or caretakers to pay up or face possible eviction.
Torrero, like many Spanish cemeteries, no longer allows people to buy grave sites. It instead leases them out for periods of five or 49 years.
If a lease as not been renewed for 15 years or more, eviction may take place. Torrero currently had some 7,000 burial sites with lapsed leases out of a total of some 114,000.
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