Eva Peron's tomb - Recoleta Cemetery - Buenos Aires
8 meters beneath the floor and inside a concrete and plomb-built vault rests Eva Perón, Juan Peron's second wife. She died of cancer in 1952 when her husband was president (and dictator) of Argentina. To make use of her popularity among a great number of people, he called a Spaniard doctor to embalm the body. Dr. Pedro Ara did his work and -I heard- it was the only embalmment of a human corpse in the XX. century which was done keeping inside all his organs. When Peron was toppeld in 1955 the new goverment gave Eva Peron a Christian burial in Mailand under the false name of Maria Maggi. They wanted to avoid that the corpse were robbed and used for political purposes. Peron was in the exile in Spain. In the 1970s. Eva Peron's remains returned to Buenos Aires and put here with security measures to avoid another robbery. In this tomb also are buried her mother (who died without knowing where her daughter was interred) and his brother Juan Duarte, who was a corrupt member of Peron's goverment, and was assasinated 9 months after the death of his sister.
Eva Peron's tomb - Recoleta Cemetery - Buenos Aires
8 meters beneath the floor and inside a concrete and plomb-built vault rests Eva Perón, Juan Peron's second wife. She died of cancer in 1952 when her husband was president (and dictator) of Argentina. To make use of her popularity among a great number of people, he called a Spaniard doctor to embalm the body. Dr. Pedro Ara did his work and -I heard- it was the only embalmment of a human corpse in the XX. century which was done keeping inside all his organs. When Peron was toppeld in 1955 the new goverment gave Eva Peron a Christian burial in Mailand under the false name of Maria Maggi. They wanted to avoid that the corpse were robbed and used for political purposes. Peron was in the exile in Spain. In the 1970s. Eva Peron's remains returned to Buenos Aires and put here with security measures to avoid another robbery. In this tomb also are buried her mother (who died without knowing where her daughter was interred) and his brother Juan Duarte, who was a corrupt member of Peron's goverment, and was assasinated 9 months after the death of his sister.