Colonel Ramón Lorenzo Falcón (1855-1909) was an Argentine Army officer, politician, and Chief of the Argentine Federal Police. Falcón was known for his iron hand in suppressing the Movimiento obrero argentine (Argentine labor movement) and following the Semana roja (Red Week) in 1909, in which the police under his command killed 80 protestors, he and his aide, Juan Alberto Lartigau, were killed by a homemade bomb thrown into his carriage by Ukrainian Argentine militant Simón Radowitzky.
Appropriately enough, Falcón and Lartigau are buried next to each other. Falcón's vault, designed by French sculptor León Ernest Drivier, features a recumbent effigy, flanked by robed mourning representations of pain. Above is a sculpture of a warrior battling a Sphinx.
La Cementerio de la Recoleta (Recoleta Cemetery), set in 5.5 hectares or the equivalent of about four city blocks, has more than 350,000 people buried in an estimated 4,7000 vaults--all above ground, and many of which have been declared National historical Monuments. Many of the elaborate marble mausoleums are decorated with statues, in a wide variety of architectural styles such as Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Baroque, and Neo-Gothic The cemetery was inaugurated under the name Cementerio del Norte (Northern Cemetery) on November 17, 1822, around Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Pilar, the church and convent built in 1732 and abandoned in 1822 by the monks of the Order of the Recoletos. The original 1822 layout was designed by architect and civil engineer Próspero Catelin, and an 1881 remodeling was handled by Italian architect Juan Antonio Buschiazzo.
for more information on Recoleta Cemetery, please see the fantastic AfterLife blog by Robert Wright at recoletacemetery.com.
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Centafio de los Tres Amigos (Cenotaph of the Three Friends) is a memorial honoring three good friends who died within a year of each other--Benito Lugonec, a journalist for journalist for La Nación; writer and politician Alberto Viola; and poet Adolfo Mitre, the son of President Bartolomé Mitre. The triangular pyramid feature a bas-relief, designed by Augusto Felice, of each of the friends on each side.
La Recoleta Cemetery, set in 5.5 hectares or the equivalent of about four city blocks, has more than 350,000 people buried in an estimated 4,7000 vaults--all above ground, and many of which have been declared National historical Monuments. Many of the elaborate marble mausoleums are decorated with statues, in a wide variety of architectural styles such as Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Baroque, and Neo-Gothic The cemetery was inaugurated under the name Cementerio del Norte (Northern Cemetery) on November 17, 1822, around Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Pilar, the church and convent built in 1732 and abandoned in 1822 by the monks of the Order of the Recoletos. The original 1822 layout was designed by architect and civil engineer Próspero Catelin, and an 1881 remodeleing was handled by Italian architect Juan Antonio Buschiazzo.
for more information on Recoleta Cemetery, please see the fantastic AfterLife blog by Robert Wright at recoletacemetery.com.
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María Eva Duarte de Perón (1919–1952), usually referred to as Eva Perón or by the affectionate diminutive Evita, was the second wife of President Juan Perón (1895–1974) and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death. Over the years, she became a part of international pop culture, most famously as the subject of Tim Rice's musical, Evita.
Born is the village of Los Toldos in rural Argentina, she moved to Buenos Aires at the age of 15 to pursue a career in stage, radio and film. After meeting and marrying Colonel Perón, her influence grew within the pro-Peronist trade unions. She also ran the Ministries of Labor and Health, founded and ran the charitable Eva Perón Foundation, championed women's suffrage in Argentina, and founded and ran the nation's first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party. In 1951, she announced her candidacy for the office of Vice President, behind the support of the workling class descamisados or "shirtless ones", but withdrew as a result of declining health and opposition from the nation's military and bourgeoisie.
After receiving a state funeral, plans were made to construct a memorial in Evita's honor, with her body to be stored in the base. While waiting for construction, Juan Perón was overthrown in a military coup, the Revolución Libertadora, in 1955 and plans were not made to secure arrangements for Evita's embalmed body, which had been on public display in her office at the GCT building for 2 years. After Peronist activity was banned by the new regime, her body was smuggled out and buried in a crypt in Milan under the name "María Maggi." In 1971, her body was exhumed and flown to Spain where Juan Perón maintained it in his home before it was finally returned to Argentina and interred in the Duarte family tomb.
La Cementerio de la Recoleta (Recoleta Cemetery), set in 5.5 hectares or the equivalent of about four city blocks, has more than 350,000 people buried in an estimated 4,7000 vaults--all above ground, and many of which have been declared National historical Monuments. Many of the elaborate marble mausoleums are decorated with statues, in a wide variety of architectural styles such as Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Baroque, and Neo-Gothic The cemetery was inaugurated under the name Cementerio del Norte (Northern Cemetery) on November 17, 1822, around Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Pilar, the church and convent built in 1732 and abandoned in 1822 by the monks of the Order of the Recoletos. The original 1822 layout was designed by architect and civil engineer Próspero Catelin, and an 1881 remodeling was handled by Italian architect Juan Antonio Buschiazzo.
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José Clemente Paz (1842-1912) was an Argentine statesman, diplomat and journalist and founded the newspaper "La Prensa." As an 18 year old, Paz enlisted in the Buenos Aires forces under the command of Bartolomé Mitre. He studied law and during the war of the Triple Alliance, founded the Society for the Portection of Invalids, a corps of nurses to treat the injured that arrived at the Port of Buenos Aires and move them to the Hospice for Invalids, which he also founded.
Paz founded La Prensa in 1869 with a commitment to independent journalism. Its circulation and influence became so great that they were able to staff foreign correspondents in most major capital cities, which was uncommon for its era. He used his influence to become an elected representative, and then senator, in Congress. After temporary exile as a supporter of Mitre, he returned to Argentina to become national deputy in 1879 and then a diplomatic ambassador to Madrid and Paris. At the end of his life, he commissioned Palacio Paz, still the largest single house ever built in the country.
The Paz family tomb was designed by French artist Jules-Felix Coutan, head of the École de Beaux Arts. It features two larger than life angels at the ground level reaching towards the top of the vault where a woman lies, collapsed, with an flameless oil lamp in her hand. Above her is an enormous casket from which a dove and the representation of the soul rise, to be met by a third angel.
La Cementerio de la Recoleta (Recoleta Cemetery), set in 5.5 hectares or the equivalent of about four city blocks, has more than 350,000 people buried in an estimated 4,7000 vaults--all above ground, and many of which have been declared National historical Monuments. Many of the elaborate marble mausoleums are decorated with statues, in a wide variety of architectural styles such as Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Baroque, and Neo-Gothic The cemetery was inaugurated under the name Cementerio del Norte (Northern Cemetery) on November 17, 1822, around Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Pilar, the church and convent built in 1732 and abandoned in 1822 by the monks of the Order of the Recoletos. The original 1822 layout was designed by architect and civil engineer Próspero Catelin, and an 1881 remodeling was handled by Italian architect Juan Antonio Buschiazzo.
for more information on Recoleta Cemetery, please see the fantastic AfterLife blog by Robert Wright at recoletacemetery.com.
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The Roverano family came from Genoa during the massive wave of immigration at the end of the 19th century who made a small fortune with the now-demolished Confitería del Gas, which competed with Café Tortoni. The Roveranos relocated to a new vault in Cacarita Cemetery in 1919, leaving the tomb vacant. However, the statue of an immigrant stepping from the boat AYUDATE (help yourself) onto dry land in peasant dress still stands in good shape.
La Cementerio de la Recoleta (Recoleta Cemetery), set in 5.5 hectares or the equivalent of about four city blocks, has more than 350,000 people buried in an estimated 4,7000 vaults--all above ground, and many of which have been declared National historical Monuments. Many of the elaborate marble mausoleums are decorated with statues, in a wide variety of architectural styles such as Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Baroque, and Neo-Gothic The cemetery was inaugurated under the name Cementerio del Norte (Northern Cemetery) on November 17, 1822, around Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Pilar, the church and convent built in 1732 and abandoned in 1822 by the monks of the Order of the Recoletos. The original 1822 layout was designed by architect and civil engineer Próspero Catelin, and an 1881 remodeleing was handled by Italian architect Juan Antonio Buschiazzo.
for more information on Recoleta Cemetery, please see the fantastic AfterLife blog by Robert Wright at recoletacemetery.com.
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