Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
You may remember the 1978 play “Evita” and the song “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina”
The song appears multiple times throughout the musical, sung by the character Eva Perón. - Eva Perón was the leader of Argentina and the wife of former president Juan Perón. - The song is about Eva's urging the people of Argentina not to mourn her after her death.
The Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires is where Eva Perón is interred. It is a place where you can lose yourself in a labyrinthine city of the dead.
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 city of the dead.
The land, which belonged to the Recollect monks from which the neighborhood took its name, became the city’s first public cemetery in 1822. 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.
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Every cemetery has a ghost story, and Recoleta is no exception:
- David Alleno worked for 30 years as a cemetery grave-digger, carefully saving his money for his own plot and a statue of himself. It is said that as soon as the architect he had commissioned for the statue had finished the work, Alleno went home and killed himself. Apparently you can still hear his keys jangling as his ghost walks the cemetery’s narrow pathways at dawn.
- After Liliana Crociati died on her honeymoon in Austria in the 1970s. Her parents reconstructed her bedroom within her tomb, and at the entrance placed a bronze statue of Liliana in her wedding dress, with her beloved pet dog at her side.
The tomb of Eva Peron (née Duarte). Although she died in 1952, her body wasn’t interred in the Duarte family mausoleum for 20 years. Evita lies in a heavily fortified crypt some five metres underground, to protect her remains.
(iPhone 13 Pro Max, 1/670 @ f/1.8, ISO 32, edited to taste)
Regarding the Sky… it was raining during our visit; the cloudy sky is real 🌂
Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
You may remember the 1978 play “Evita” and the song “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina”
The song appears multiple times throughout the musical, sung by the character Eva Perón. - Eva Perón was the leader of Argentina and the wife of former president Juan Perón. - The song is about Eva's urging the people of Argentina not to mourn her after her death.
The Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires is where Eva Perón is interred. It is a place where you can lose yourself in a labyrinthine city of the dead.
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 city of the dead.
The land, which belonged to the Recollect monks from which the neighborhood took its name, became the city’s first public cemetery in 1822. 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.
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Every cemetery has a ghost story, and Recoleta is no exception:
- David Alleno worked for 30 years as a cemetery grave-digger, carefully saving his money for his own plot and a statue of himself. It is said that as soon as the architect he had commissioned for the statue had finished the work, Alleno went home and killed himself. Apparently you can still hear his keys jangling as his ghost walks the cemetery’s narrow pathways at dawn.
- After Liliana Crociati died on her honeymoon in Austria in the 1970s. Her parents reconstructed her bedroom within her tomb, and at the entrance placed a bronze statue of Liliana in her wedding dress, with her beloved pet dog at her side.
The tomb of Eva Peron (née Duarte). Although she died in 1952, her body wasn’t interred in the Duarte family mausoleum for 20 years. Evita lies in a heavily fortified crypt some five metres underground, to protect her remains.
(iPhone 13 Pro Max, 1/670 @ f/1.8, ISO 32, edited to taste)
Regarding the Sky… it was raining during our visit; the cloudy sky is real 🌂