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La Recoleta Cemetery is adorned with statues that compliment the beautiful mausoleums in a wide variety of architectural styles. The entire cemetery is laid out in sections like city blocks with wide tree-line walkways branching into smaller "streets" filled with mausoleums.
Each mausoleum bears the family name etched into the facade and brass or bronze plaques which are added for each particular family member. Oddly, all mausoleums in La Recoleta traditionally engrave a death date but no birth date is maintained.
A whole family will be resting in one small building, sometimes evena a few generations. Some are small and some are very large, but almost all have a basement. The main floor of each family mausoleum usually contains at least two coffins, an altar, a cross, and often vases for artificial or fresh flowers. You can look through glass or stained glass windows on the front door or side door of almost every little building and you usually see a stepp stairway leading down to a basement where other coffins are stored.
Many Governors of Buenos Aires and Presidents of Argentina are buried in La Recoleta Cemetery, as well as many writers, poets, politicians and other well-known people from Argentina. More recently Susan Barrants, mother of Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, was laid to rest in La Recoleta Cemetery. However, one of the most popular mausoleums to be visited in the cemetery is the Duarte family tomb that contains the remains of the country's beloved Evita.
Its fair to say the whole nation loves Juan Peron's wife, Evita. She was an actress before she was first lady and she used her great influence while her husband was in power to help the children, the aged and the sick. After her early death (and a number of detour stops, her body came to rest finally in her family's black marble mausoleum, although her husband, Juan Peron, is buried in a different cemetery in Buenos Aires.
It is Latin custom not to change the name of a woman when she marries, so in Argentina she is known by her family name of Duarte, although the rest of the world knows her as Evan Peron.
The top left with the flowers is the family mausoleum and above right is the plaque next to the mausoleum.
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