Recoleta, Buenos Aires

On saturdays and sundays you can go to Recoleta's fair.
I'd suggest you going on a saturday to this fair and on a sunday to San Telmo's one!

Los sabados y domingos podes ir a la feria de la Recoleta.
Yo te recomendaria que vayas los sabados a la feria de la Recoleta y los domingos a la de San Telmo!

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Eva Person died of cancer in 1952, but Evita’s story did not end with her death. First, she was embalmed. Then her body was stolen by opponents of her husband in 1955. It resurfaced in Italy in 1971 and was not returned to Argentina until 1974. In the time between being exhumed and reburied, her body was kept in the home of her husband, Juan Peron, who lived in exile in Spain.

Upon returning to Argentina, Evita was buried in the presidential crypt. But the possibility of additional disturbances prompted the movement of her body to her family’s mausoleum (La Familia Duarte), which is protected by several layers of steel, in the Recoleta Cemetery.

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This is the place where the most distinguished and powerful are laid to rest. It's a fascinating cemetery with many elaborate mausoleums. Evita Peron is buried here, and the location of her vault is easy to find..signs give directions to it. You can spend hours here. Very atmospheric.

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Next to the Recoleta´s cemetery is located the Iglesia del Pilar. Built by the Jesuit architect Andres Bianchi in 1732. A very interesting church; has one nave and an altar brought from Bolivia with a silver front made by Jujuy indians.

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It´s very easy to find Eva Peron´s grave, you´ll find thousands of people there. She was buried in the Duarte´s family mausoleum after travelling through Italy and Spain, finally she found peace in this place.

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This famous cemetery was establish in 1822. A good place to see the past opulence of the old rich families, more than 6,000 mausoleums. In this cemetery you would find the graves of Evita Peron, Luis Federico Leloir (the 1970 nobel prize winner in chemistry) and even the grave of the granddaughter of Napoleon I.

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We visited this place on our last day. Almost every day we walked by a nice little church, but never took time time to go to the cementary until our last day of stay. I guess most of the people there at the time were looking for the gave of Evita Peroni. It was not too difficult to find it but still took some time.

Recoleta neighborhood this is near the cementery , weekends they do have an outdoor bazaar, a lot of street artists, tango dancers , good barbecue restaurants ( parrilladas ), coffe shops ( Try submarino is hot milk with dark chocolate bars …really good. Near you have a cinema mall ( there you can see what they did with the money in the dolarize system ) Huge invesment. ….in the night this neighborhood suffers a great transformation, full of discotheques, night clubs, restaurants, bars….You will have a lot of fun.. Discos are a bit cheese.