Recoleta Cemetery (Buenos Aires)

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Recoleta Cemetery , a well known cemetery right in the middle of Recoleta neighbourhood. A must see for all visitors and tourists to Buenos Aires. It has some magnificent display of monuments and the ostentatious tombs of Argentina's rich and famous, the most notable one being Eva Perón.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Recoleta_Cemetery
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Coordinates:   34°35'15"S   58°23'36"W

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  • Eva Peron is buried here. The people who work in the cemetery will show you where she is buried.
  • A famous evocation of the cemetery's mood and of Buenos Aires generally appears in the poem "La Recoleta" of Jorge Luis Borges, published in his book "ervor de Buenos Aires" (1923): you can read the poem in Spanish at, http://sololiteratura.com/bor/borfervor.htm -- and in English at, http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=73989
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