Recoleta cemetery self-guided tour
- •
La Recoleta Cemetery
Cemetery located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
For the cemetery in Paraguay, see Recoleta Cemetery, Asuncion.
La Recoleta Cemetery (Spanish: Cementerio de la Recoleta) is a cemetery located in the Recoletaneighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It contains the graves of notable people, including Eva Perón, presidents of Argentina, Nobel Prize winners, the founder of the Argentine Navy, and military commanders such as Julio Argentino Roca. In 2011, the BBC hailed it as one of the world's best cemeteries,[5] and in 2013, CNN listed it among the 10 most beautiful cemeteries in the world.[6]
History
Franciscan Recollect monks (los recoletos)[7] arrived in this area, then the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in the early eighteenth century. The cemetery is built around the Recollect Convent (Convento de la Recoleta)[8] and a church, Our Lady of the Pillar (Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Pilar), built in 1732.
The order was disbanded in 1822, and the garden of the convent converted into the first public
- •
Recoleta Cemetery
Over 6,400 statues, sarcophagi, coffins and crypts commemorate some of Argentina’s most celebrated sons and daughters, not least Eva "Evita" Perón, in this labyrinthine city of the dead.
Recoleta Cemetery, in the neighbourhood of the same name, was once the orchard of the adjoining Basílica Nuestra Señora del Pilar - the glistening white church that overlooks the square outside. The land, which belonged to the Recollect monks from which the neighbourhood took its name, became the city’s first public cemetery in 1822. Its layout was designed by French engineer Próspero Catelin, who also designed the city’s Metropolitan Cathedral in the Plaza de Mayo.
It is an eerily beautiful place, with shadowed walkways and towering marble mausoleums rich in Art Deco, Art Nouveau, baroque and neo-gothic architectural styles, Masonic symbols and powerful religious iconography. Over 90 of its tombs are listed as national historical monuments. The most visited tombs are those of Eva Perón and former Argentine presidents Sarmiento and Raúl Alfonsín.
The cemetery is open daily,
- •
Evita Perón’s Final Resting Place, Buenos Aires
Eva Perón (1919-1952) is buried in Cementerio de la Recoleta along with many other famous Argentines . However, her body was not always laid to rest there .  After she died on 26 Jul 1952, her embalmed body was displayed in her former office in the CGT Building (Building of the General Confederation of Labor), awaiting the construction of a permanent memorial . Unfortunately, her husband, President Juan Perón, was driven out of office in a military coup in 1955, and the new authorities removed Evita’s body to an unknown location . Sixteen years later, in 1971, the military revealed that Evita’s body had been buried in a crypt in Milan, Italy under the name María Maggi . In 1971, the body was exhumed and flown to the Perón home in Spain . Evita’s body was kept in Spain until after Juan Perón’s death and was then returned to Argentina so that the bodies of Juan and Eva Perón could be displayed together . Eventually, Evita’s body was interred in the Duarte Family Tomb in Recoleta Cemetery
Copyright ©bilders.pages.dev 2025