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El Campo Santo Review
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El Campo Santo
- Address: North side of San Diego Ave. S, between Arista and Ampudia Sts., Old Town, San Diego, CA | Map It
- Category: Cemeteries
- Location: Old Town
Fodor's Review:
The old adobe-wall cemetery established in 1849 was until 1880 the burial place for many members of Old Town's founding families -- as well as for some gamblers and bandits who passed through town. Antonio Garra, a chief who led an uprising of the San Luis Rey Indians, was executed at El Campo Santo in front of the open grave he had been forced to dig for himself. These days the small cemetery is a peaceful stop for visitors to Old Town. Most of the markers give only approximations of where the people named on them are buried; some of the early settlers laid to rest at El Campo Santo really reside under San Diego Avenue.
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