Cemeteries

One of the world's great cemeteries, Cemeterio de la Recoleta is a 14 acre site in downtown Buenos Aires. It contains over 6,000 tombs and mausoleums, 70 of which are recognised as national monuments. The architecture is eclectic, from Greco Roman palaces to experiments in Romanticism.

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Tomb of Eva Peron
'Don't cry for me lost and far away
I am an essential part of your life
All love and pain was foreseen for me
I fulfil my humble imitation of Christ
who walks beside me.
Her Disciples'

Part of the grand entrance to the cemetery

The cemetery is laid out in a grid, echoing the city outside its walls and
made up of arrow lanes

Jacaranda bloom spilling into the cemetery

A distant relative of mine from the Wellington branch of the family?
Apparently Ernesto was a student who was shot dead by accident at a local dance

Tomb of Facundo Quiroga
Nicknamed the Tiger of the Plains, the assassinated
Gaucho caudillo has a tomb adorned by a dolorosa
(the weeping Virgin) carved by the Italian
sculptor Antonio Tantardini

Statute in front of the grave of Liliana Rostro

Tomb of Bartolome Mitre, an Argentine President 

Bust of Mariano Saavedra, a former governor of the province of Buenos Aires



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