BUENOS AIRES – Our visit to Recoleta Cemetery was going to be short. We were going to find Eva Duarte Peron’s tomb and leave. We were not admirers, just curious U.S. tourists. But before what turned ...

When Argentina’s wealthy and powerful rest for eternity, they do it in style. Recoleta cemetery is one of the world’s most extraordinary graveyards, with over 6,400 grandiose mausoleums resembling ...

Perhaps improbable for a bustling Latin American metropolis, one of the most well-known tourist attractions in the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires is a graveyard. The Recoleta Cemetery includes a ...

Cemeteries are perceived to be solemn places; however, they can be very beautiful and significant. Most countries of the ...

Former presidents, military generals, artists and, most famously, Eva Perón, are buried here in fabulous mausoleums of stone and bronze. A forbidding perimeter wall protects the dead of the Recoleta ...

Eighteen Argentinian presidents, a couple of Nobel laureates, numerous poets, a heavyweight boxing champion, and a granddaughter of Napoleon all lie in La Recoleta Cemetery, established in 1822 on the ...

BUENOS AIRES -- Our visit to Recoleta Cemetery was going to be short. We were going to find Eva Duarte Peron's tomb and leave. We were not admirers, just curious U.S. tourists. But before what turned ...