Saturday, May 19, 2007

The Cemetary






La Recoleta cemetery
La Recoleta is the most glorious and old cemetery of Buenos Aires. It contains glorious graves of the country's rich and famous, who showed their wealth through building grandiose graves. In the cemetery area there are more than 6,400 chamber tombs (mausoleums).
If you wish to buy a grave plot in the cemetery, you can do it for $20,000 per square meter, as long you can find someone who will be willing to sell it to you.
La Recoleta cemetery is considered the third most important and beautiful cemetery in the world.
Since it was opened in 1882, the cemetery is hosting presidents, generals, intellectuals and even the grave of Evita Peron, which still attracts many visitors. In order to prevent the stealing of her body (as happened already in 1955) she was buried in a concrete safe 8 meters below the ground.

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