{"id":11097,"date":"2011-01-05T23:30:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T07:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/11097"},"modified":"2011-01-05T23:30:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T07:30:28","slug":"cementerio-de-la-recoleta-buenos-aires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/11097","title":{"rendered":"Cementerio de la Recoleta, Buenos Aires"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Buenos Aires there is a saying that “It’s cheaper to live extravagantly all your life than to be buried in Recoleta.”\u00c2\u00a0 Cementerio de la Recoleta is the final resting place for the wealthiest and most prestigious of Argentina’s citizens .\u00a0 The cemetery is, indeed, a city of the dead .\u00a0 Wide streets and narrow passages crisscross through Recoleta Cemetery where it seems that everyone is buried in a mausoleum to spend eternity in a house of granite .\u00a0 Among the rich and famous buried here are Bartolom\u00e9 Mitre (1821-1906), a soldier, journalist, and the sixth president of Argentina .\u00a0 Mitre has been described as one of the Argentina’s best writers and is well known for chronicling South America’s wars of independence .\u00a0 Marco Avellaneda (1813-1841) was the son of a prominent Argentine politician .\u00a0 He, himself, became governor of the Province of Tucum\u00ed\u00a1n .\u00a0 He was put to death by the dictator Rosas who displayed Avellaneda’s head on a pike in the Plaza of Tucum\u00ed\u00a1n .\u00a0 Valentine Alsina (1802-1869) was an Argentine lawyer and politician .\u00a0 He served as governor of Buenos Aires and as a member of the Argentine senate.<\/p>\n

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Entrance to Cementerio de la Recoleta<\/em><\/p>\n

SOURCE:\u00a0 Entrance to Cementerio de la Recoleta (Buenos Aires, Argentina), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 31 Dec 2010.<\/p>\n

\"Tomb<\/a><\/p>\n

Tomb of Bartolom\u00e9 Mitre (1821-1906)<\/em><\/p>\n

SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Tomb of Bartolom\u00e9 Mitre (1821-1906) (Buenos Aires, Argentina), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 31 Dec 2010.<\/p>\n

\"Tomb<\/a><\/p>\n

Tomb of Marco Avellaneda (1813-1841)<\/em><\/p>\n

SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Tomb of Marco Avellaneda (1813-1841) (Buenos Aires, Argentina), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 31 Dec 2010.<\/p>\n

\"Tomb<\/a><\/p>\n

Tomb of\u00c2\u00a0Valentin Alsina\u00c2\u00a0(1802-1869)<\/em><\/p>\n

SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Tomb of\u00c2\u00a0Valentin Alsina\u00c2\u00a0(1802-1869) (Buenos Aires, Argentina), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 31 Dec 2010.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Buenos Aires there is a saying that “It’s cheaper to live extravagantly all your life than to be buried in Recoleta.” Cementerio de la Recoleta is the final resting place for the wealthiest and most prestigious of Argentina’s citizens. The cemetery is, indeed, a city of the dead. Wide streets and narrow passages crisscross through Recoleta Cemetery where it seems that everyone is buried in a mausoleum to spend eternity in a house of granite. Among the rich and famous buried here are Bartolom\u00e9 Mitre (1821-1906), a soldier, journalist, and the sixth president of Argentina. Mitre has been described as one of the Argentina’s best writers and is well known for chronicling South America’s wars of independence. Marco Avellaneda (1813-1841) was the son of a prominent Argentine politician. He, himself, became governor of the Province of Tucum\u00ed\u00a1n. He was put to death by the dictator Rosas who displayed Avellaneda’s head on a pike in the Plaza of Tucum\u00ed\u00a1n. Valentine Alsina (1802-1869) was an Argentine lawyer and politician. He served as governor of Buenos Aires and as a member of the Argentine senate. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[170],"class_list":["post-11097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-buenos-aires"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-2SZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}