La Recoleta Cemetery is a famous cemetery located in the exclusive Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. This is a list of famous cemeteries, mausoleums and other places people are buried, world-wide. ... Recoleta in the map of Buenos Aires Recoleta is a barrio or neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ... The city of Buenos Aires is divided in 47 barrios: Agronomía Almagro Balvanera Barracas Belgrano Boedo Caballito Chacarita Coglhan Colegiales Constitución Flores Floresta La Boca La Paternal Liniers Mataderos Monte Castro Montserrat Nueva Pompeya Nuñez Palermo Parque Avellaneda Parque Chacabuco Parque Chas Parque Patricios Recoleta Retiro Saavedra... Buenos Aires (English: Fair Winds, originally Ciudad de la Santísima Trinidad y Puerto de Santa María de los Buenos Aires, City of the Holy Trinity and Port of Saint Mary of the Fair Winds) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, as well as...

The Cementery includes graves of some of the most influential and important persons of Argentina, including several presidents, scientists, and wealthy characters. Internationaly, Eva Perón is one of the best known persons buried in this cementery. Current President Néstor Kirchner The President of Argentina (full title: President of the Argentine Nation, Spanish: Presidente de la Nación Argentina) is the head of state of Argentina. ... During her 1947 Rainbow Tour of Europe, Eva Perón became the only South American first lady in history to grace the cover of Time Magazine, a distinction she holds to this day. ...

Mausoleums at the main pathway of the Recoleta Cemetery

The entrance to the cemetery is through neo-classical gates with tall Greek columns. The cemetery contains many elaborate marble mausoleums, decorated with statues, in a wide variety of architectural styles. The entire cemetery is laid out in sections like city blocks, with wide tree-lined main walkways branching into sidewalks filled with mausoleums. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 190 KB) Cementerio de La Recoleta (Recoleta Cementery), Buenos Aires. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 190 KB) Cementerio de La Recoleta (Recoleta Cementery), Buenos Aires. ... St. ...

While many of the mausoleums are in fine shape and well-maintained, others have fallen into disrepair. Several can be found with broken glass, littered with rubbish, and on occasion you might find a mausoleum being used as a janitorial supply closet, with cleaning and maintenance products stored on top of coffins.

Each mausoleum bears the family name etched into the facade; brass or bronze plaques are added to the front for particular family members. La Recoleta is one of those cemeteries where the tradition of engraving a death date but no birth date has been maintained.

One interesting and unique aspect of La Recoleta is a colony of feral cats that resides within the gates. Although they can be spotted anytime, they tend to gather in groups of dozens near closing-time, when some locals feed them.

The cemetery was featured in the educational film Destinos as the final resting spot of a wife of the main character. Destinos, also known as Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish is a television program created by Bill Vanpattan of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ...

Famous People burried at La Recoleta

Some of the famous interred in La Recoleta Cemetery are:

View of the domes

• Juan Bautista Alberdi (1810-1884), writer, politician, lawyer
• Luis César Amadori (1902-1977), poet, composer
• Susan Barrantes, (1937-1998), mother of Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York
• Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999), writer
• Juan Manuel Fangio (1911-1995), F1 champion race car driver
• Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793-1877), politician, caudillo
• Luis Firpo (1894-1960), heavyweight boxer, "The Wild Bull of the Pampas"
• Oliverio Girondo (1891-1967), poet, journalist
• José Hernandez (1834-1886), writer
• Enrique Larreta (1875-1961), writer
• Luis F. Leloir (1906-1987), scientist, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
• Leandro Alem (1844-1896) politician
• Cándido López (1840-1902), painter and soldier
• Eduardo Mallea (1903-1982), novelist, essayist
• Carlos Menditeguy (1915-1973), race car driver and sportsman
• Bartolomé Mitre (1821-1906), writer, former president
• Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979), writer, publisher
• Carlos Pellegrini (1846-1906), former president
• Eva Perón (1919-1952), First Lady of Argentina
• Honorio Pueyrredón (1876-1945), educator, statesman
• Hipólito Yrigoyen (1852-1933), politician, former president
• Dante Quinterno (1909-2003), cartoonist
• Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1878-1959), statesman, Nobel Peace Prize winner
• Domingo Sarmiento (1811-1888), writer, former president
• Juan Facundo Quiroga (1790-1835), caudillo (subject of the book Facundo; Sarmiento's most famous work; his remains were only recently discovered in the cemetery)

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