Gabo's ashes are laid to rest in Cartagena

The ceremony for the installation of a memorial which will hold the ashes of Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez is being held in the city that he so loved.

His widow, Mercedes Barcha, and their children, Gonzalo y Rodrigo, are heading the ceremony representing the return of the 1982 Literature Prize to his home country.

The head of the superior council of the University of Cartagena, Dumek Turbay Paz, as well as president Édgar Parra Chacón, organized the ceremony, which is being accompanied by a series of performances from some of the passages of the most representative books of the writer, who died on April 17, 2014, in Mexico.

García Márquez's ashes will be deposited in a memorial in the central patio of the Cloister of La Merced.