La Recoleta Cemetery (español. Cementerio de la Recoleta) is a cemetery located in the Recoleta neighbourhood 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 a granddaughter of Napoleon. In 2011, the BBC hailed it as one of the world's best cemeteries, and in 2013, CNN listed it among the 10 most beautiful cemeteries in the world.
The monks of the Order of the Recoletos arrived in this area, then the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in the early eighteenth century. The cemetery is built around their convent and a church, Our Lady of Pilar (Шаблон:Lang), built in 1732. The order was disbanded in 1822, and the garden of the convent was converted into the first public cemetery in Buenos Aires. Inaugurated on 17 November of the same year under the name of Шаблон:Lang (Northern Cemetery), those responsible for its creation were the then-Governor Martin Rodríguez, who would be eventually buried in the cemetery, and government minister Bernardino Rivadavia. The 1822 layout was done by French civil engineer Próspero Catelin, who also designed the current facade of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral. The cemetery was last remodeled in 1881, while Torcuato de Alvear was mayor of the city, by the Italian architect Juan Antonio Buschiazzo.
Set in Шаблон:Convert, the site contains 4691 vaults, all above ground, of which 94 have been declared National Historical Monuments by the Argentine government and are protected by the state. The entrance to the cemetery is through neo-classical gates with tall Doric columns. The cemetery contains many elaborate marble mausoleums, decorated with statues, in a wide variety of architectural styles such as Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Baroque, and Neo-Gothic, and most materials used between 1880 and 1930 in the construction of tombs were imported from Paris and Milan. The entire cemetery is laid out in sections like city blocks, with wide tree-lined main walkways branching into sidewalks filled with mausoleums.
While many of the mausoleums are in fine shape and well-maintained, others have fallen into disrepair. Several can be found with broken glass and littered with rubbish. Among many memorials are works by notable Argentine sculptors, Lola Mora and Luis Perlotti for instance. The tomb of Liliana Crociati de Szaszak, due to its unusual design, is of special interest.
Birth | Death | Personality | Notes | Ref(s) | |
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1914 | 1999 | Шаблон:Sort | Adolfo Bioy Casares | Fiction writer, journalist, translator, and Miguel de Cervantes Prize recipient. | |
1876 | 1943 | Шаблон:Sort | Agustín Pedro Justo | President of Argentina. | |
1921 | 2012 | Шаблон:Sort | Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat | Businesswoman and philanthropist. | |
1914 | 1981 | Шаблон:Sort | Armando Bó | Actor, film director, and screenwriter. | |
1900 | 1983 | Шаблон:Sort | Arturo Umberto Illia | President of Argentina. | |
1821 | 1906 | Шаблон:Sort | Bartolomé Mitre | President of Argentina. | |
1840 | 1902 | Шаблон:Sort | Cándido López | Soldier, painter, and student of Italian artist Baldassare Verazzi. | |
1827 | 1918 | Шаблон:Sort | Carlos Guido y Spano | Poet. | |
1789 | 1852 | Шаблон:Sort | Carlos María de Alvear | Soldier, statesman, and Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata. | |
1846 | 1906 | Шаблон:Sort | Carlos Pellegrini | President of Argentina. | |
1878 | 1959 | Шаблон:Sort | Carlos Saavedra Lamas | Academic, politician, and the first Latin American Nobel Peace Prize recipient. | |
1759 | 1829 | Шаблон:Sort | Cornelio Saavedra | President of the First Assembly and military officer. | |
1758 | 1820 | Шаблон:Sort | Cosme Argerich | Military physician. | |
1800 | 1875 | Шаблон:Sort | Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield | Lawyer, politician, and writer of the Civil Code of Argentina. | |
1811 | 1888 | Шаблон:Sort | Domingo Faustino Sarmiento | President of Argentina. | |
1896 | 1956 | Шаблон:Sort | Eduardo Lonardi | President of Argentina. | |
1903 | 1982 | Шаблон:Sort | Eduardo Mallea | Essayist, cultural critic, writer, and diplomat. | |
1844 | 1913 | Шаблон:Sort | Eduardo Wilde | Physician, politician, and writer. | |
1875 | 1951 | Шаблон:Sort | Elpidio González | Politician and Vice President of Argentina. | |
1919 | 1952 | Шаблон:Sort | Eva Perón | First Lady of Argentina and founder of the Eva Perón Foundation. | |
1788 | 1835 | Шаблон:Sort | Facundo Quiroga | Шаблон:Lang and subject of the book Facundo, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento's most prominent work. | |
1785 | 1827 | Шаблон:Sort | Federico de Brandsen | French-born Colonel. | |
1795 | 1871 | Шаблон:Sort | Francisco Javier Muñiz | Argentine physician, naturalist and politician | |
1821 | 1890 | Шаблон:Sort | Guillermo Rawson | Physician and politician of American descent. | |
1852 | 1933 | Шаблон:Sort | Hipólito Yrigoyen | President of Argentina. | |
1847 | 1847 | Шаблон:Sort | Isabelle Colonna-Walewski | Daughter of Count Alexandre Colonna-Walewski and grandchild of Napoleon. | |
1842 | 1912 | Шаблон:Sort | José Clemente Paz | Statesman, diplomat, and journalist. | |
1860 | 1931 | Шаблон:Sort | José Figueroa Alcorta | President of Argentina. | |
1834 | 1886 | Шаблон:Sort | José Hernández | Journalist, politician, poet, and creator of Argentina's national epic, the Martín Fierro. | |
1910 | 1975 | Шаблон:Sort | José María Guido | President of Argentina. | |
1758 | 1833 | Шаблон:Sort | Juan José Paso | Politician and member of the First Assembly, the First Triumvirate, and the Second Triumvirate. | |
1797 | 1841 | Шаблон:Sort | Juan Lavalle | General and Governor of Buenos Aires Province. | |
1793 | 1877 | Шаблон:Sort | Juan Manuel de Rosas | Brigadier and Governor of Buenos Aires Province. Initially buried at Southampton Old Cemetery in the United Kingdom, repatriated in 1989. | |
1843 | 1914 | Шаблон:Sort | Julio Argentino Roca | President of Argentina. | |
1841 | 1896 | Шаблон:Sort | Leandro Nicéforo Alem | Politician. | |
1874 | 1938 | Шаблон:Sort | Leopoldo Lugones | Writer and journalist. | |
1831 | 1913 | Шаблон:Sort | Lucio Victorio Mansilla | General, writer, journalist, politician, and diplomat. | |
1894 | 1960 | Шаблон:Sort | Luis Ángel Firpo | Professional boxer and the first Latin American to challenge for the world heavyweight champion title. | |
1906 | 1987 | Шаблон:Sort | Luis Federico Leloir | Biochemist, physician, and the first Spanish-speaking Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate. | |
1838 | 1907 | Шаблон:Sort | Luis María Campos | General and founder of the Шаблон:Lang (Superior School of War). | |
1822 | 1907 | Шаблон:Sort | Luis Sáenz Peña | President of Argentina. | |
1791 | 1871 | Шаблон:Sort | Luis Vernet | German-born merchant of Huguenot descent and the first Argentine appointed as Governor of Puerto Luis (nowadays the Falkland Islands). | |
1787 | 1828 | Шаблон:Sort | Manuel Dorrego | Military officer and Governor of Buenos Aires Province. Mausoleum designed by Carlo Zucchi. | |
1835 | 1906 | Шаблон:Sort | Manuel Quintana | President of Argentina. | |
1868 | 1942 | Шаблон:Sort | Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear | President of Argentina. | |
1887 | 1970 | Шаблон:Sort | Mariette Lydis | Austrian-born painter and illustrator. | |
1786 | 1868 | Шаблон:Sort | Mariquita Sánchez de Thompson | Patriot. | |
1922 | 1991 | Шаблон:Sort | Martín Karadagian | Actor, professional wrestler, and Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame inductee. | |
1851 | 1905 | Шаблон:Sort | Miguel Cané | Writer, lawyer, academic, journalist, and politician. | |
1754 | 1833 | Шаблон:Sort | Miguel de Azcuénaga | General, politician, and member of the First Assembly. | |
1783 | 1849 | Шаблон:Sort | Miguel Estanislao Soler | General and politician. | |
1837 | 1885 | Шаблон:Sort | Nicolás Avellaneda | President of Argentina. | |
1891 | 1967 | Шаблон:Sort | Oliverio Girondo | Poet. | |
1859 | 1936 | Шаблон:Sort | Pablo Ricchieri | Military officer and Minister of War. | |
1848 | 1929 | Шаблон:Sort | Paul Groussac | French-born writer, literary critic, historian, and librarian. | |
1903 | 1970 | Шаблон:Sort | Pedro Eugenio Aramburu | President of Argentina. | |
1927 | 2009 | Шаблон:Sort | Raúl Alfonsín | President of Argentina. | |
1797 | 1823 | Шаблон:Sort | Remedios de Escalada | Wife of Шаблон:Lang José de San Martín. | |
1851 | 1914 | Шаблон:Sort | Roque Sáenz Peña | President of Argentina. | |
1903 | 1993 | Шаблон:Sort | Silvina Ocampo | Poet, translator, and writer. | |
1802 | 1869 | Шаблон:Sort | Valentín Alsina | Governor of Buenos Aires Province. | |
1785 | 1856 | Шаблон:Sort | Vicente López y Planes | Poet, politician, and creator of the lyrics of the Argentine National Anthem. | |
1890 | 1979 | Шаблон:Sort | Victoria Ocampo | Writer, intellectual, and the first woman admitted to the Argentine Academy of Letters. | |
1840 | 1919 | Шаблон:Sort | Victorino de la Plaza | President of Argentina. | |
1777 | 1857 | Шаблон:Sort | William Brown | Irish-born Admiral and founder of the Argentine Navy. | |
1856 | 1902 | Шаблон:Sort | Zenón Rolón | Musician and composer. | |
1920 | 1999 | Шаблон:Sort | Zully Moreno | Actress. |