The 10-meters high sculptural set the Monumento a los Bomberos (Firemen’s Monument) can be seen even from the main entrance. The expressive monument was built by the by Spanish sculptor Agustín Querol Subirats and architect Julio Martinez Zapata in the memoriam to the tragic event in that the 28 firemen died in the fire of a hardware shop in 1890, when they were doing their heroic work. The winged angel of Faith carries a fainted fireman on her arms, while four feminine figures surround the grave, representing the Abnegation, the Pain, the Heroism, and the Martyrdom (the photo below).

The Capilla del Amor (Chapel of Love) is another place that is visited by many. It was built by Juan Pedro Baró for his beloved wife Catalina Laza.

The Pantheon of the Prelates, constructed for Bishop Espada, and the tomb of José Raúl Capablanca y Grauper, the legendary Cuban world chess champion from 1921 to 1927, are the other graves that draw attention. A majestic statue of a king in marble, sculpted by Florencio Gelabert, stands on the tomb of the latter.

The only vertical tomb of the cemetery belongs to Eugenio Casimiro Rodríguez that was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1918. However, he was pardoned, when he married the daughter of the president. He became a politician and died as a wealthy man. Before dying, he spoke his last will to be buried on foot in a vertical niche.

Jeannette Ford Ryder is an American that arrived in Cuba to found the charitable group Bando de Piedad to help the poor and the homeless and to protect the orphans and the domestic animals. When she died, her faithful puppy Rinti waited at the feet of the stone sarcophagus and rejected the food and the water offered by the caretakers of the cemetery. Soon, it died of starvation. It was buried there at the feet of its owner. The sculpture of the puppy on the Tumba de la fidelidad (Loyalty Tomb) is the work the Cuban sculptor Fernando Boada

But probably the most visited grave in the cemetery is the tomb of Amelia Goyri de Hoz (Amelia Francisca de Sales Adelaida Ramona Goyri y de la Hoz), a high-society lady, that is known as La Milagrosa (the Miraculuos). She died of preeclampsia in the eight month of gestation in 1901 and buried according the Spanish custom with her stillborn baby at her feet in a luxurious bronze coffin in the tomb of his husbands friend.

Her husband José Vicent Adot y Rahell used to visit her tomb every day for 40 years until his death. He was knocking the grave three times to wake her, talking to her while keeping his hand over the grave.

When his friend, the Cuban sculptor José Vilalta de Saavedra, heard the sad story, he sculpted a life-size Carrara marble statue of Amelia, when  he was in Italy, and sent it to Cuba in 1909. This sculpture that now decorates the tomb, represents a young woman that is carrying a child in one arm and holding a cross in the other. The cross refers to May 3rd, the day of death of Amelia, that is also the Day of the Holy Cross according the Catholics.

When his father died, José waned to bury him in the same tomb. When the tomb was opened in 1914, it was seen that the corpse of Amelia was intact and the dead child was in her arms instead of in the middle of her legs. Since that time, she became a myth. Her grave is visited by childless women that pray here in the hope of a pregnancy, as Amelia is believed to symbolize the eternal hope.. Others ask her for a solution for the difficulties that they pose during their pregnancy. All these women know the ritual: they knock three times on the tombstone before touching the tomb, request a wish and withdraw slowly without turning their back on the tomb, when they leave.

The only tomb with Swedish red quarry granite houses the remains of the Cardinal Manuel Arteaga.

In the central area of ​​the cemetery, there are two mausoleums that look like medieval fortresses. One of them that belongs to Nicolás Rivero y Muñiz, Count of Rivero, depicts a bronze sculpture of a warrior with helmet and shield on the top of the tomb. It is the royal representation of the nobleman in the Middle Ages.