A Walk through Recoleta Cemetery
Recoleta Cementery, in the upscale Recoleta Barrio of Buenos Aires, is the final resting place of many of Argentina's wealthiest and most famous families and personages.
The mausoleums are fairly small, befitting the size of the cementery in an urban setting, and it's common for many menbers, generations even, of the same family occupy one mausoleum.
Crowded Street in Recoleta Cemetery
The mausoleums are crowded closely together, allowing little room between them for pedestrian passages.
Mausoleums in Recoleta Cemetery
Some are richly ornated, with intricate carvings of death related symbols or items meaningful to the occupant.
General Juan Lavalle Mausoleum
Note the detailed carving on the mausoleum and the military statues standing guard. Note also how close the high rise building is behind the cemetery and the proximity of the gravesite next door.
Duarte Family Mausoleum
Members of Eve Peron's family are entombed here in the family vault.
This is the grave that many people tour Recoleta Cemetery to find. Eva Duarte de Peron was the wife of Juan Peron, and alternately idolized by the descamisados whose causes she espoused, or despised by the oligarchy of Argentina's wealthy and powerful.
The story of her death, the embalming that's kept her body almost pristine for decades, the hiding of her body in Europe, and finally, her return to Argentina is a fantasic one that attracts interest to this day.
Juan Peron is buried in another cemetery in the capital.
The quiet streets of the cemetery invite the visitor to stroll, or sit and rest, while forgeting the busy barrio of Recoleta just outside the walls.
Recoleta Cementery, in the upscale Recoleta Barrio of Buenos Aires, is the final resting place of many of Argentina's wealthiest and most famous families and personages.
The mausoleums are fairly small, befitting the size of the cementery in an urban setting, and it's common for many menbers, generations even, of the same family occupy one mausoleum.
Crowded Street in Recoleta Cemetery
The mausoleums are crowded closely together, allowing little room between them for pedestrian passages.
Mausoleums in Recoleta Cemetery
Some are richly ornated, with intricate carvings of death related symbols or items meaningful to the occupant.
General Juan Lavalle Mausoleum
Note the detailed carving on the mausoleum and the military statues standing guard. Note also how close the high rise building is behind the cemetery and the proximity of the gravesite next door.
Duarte Family Mausoleum
Members of Eve Peron's family are entombed here in the family vault.
This is the grave that many people tour Recoleta Cemetery to find. Eva Duarte de Peron was the wife of Juan Peron, and alternately idolized by the descamisados whose causes she espoused, or despised by the oligarchy of Argentina's wealthy and powerful.
The story of her death, the embalming that's kept her body almost pristine for decades, the hiding of her body in Europe, and finally, her return to Argentina is a fantasic one that attracts interest to this day.
Juan Peron is buried in another cemetery in the capital.
The quiet streets of the cemetery invite the visitor to stroll, or sit and rest, while forgeting the busy barrio of Recoleta just outside the walls.
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