A dead desirable residence

A couple of blocks of the Recoleta district of Buenos Aires houses the rich, famous and powerful dead people of Argentina. This is a cemetery on a grand scale with some extraordinarily architectural tombs. 

Walking along the paths between the tombs feels more like walking along the narrow streets of a low rise town. Boxed in here in marble or stone structures with elaborate designs are former presidents, generals, prominent people in the jockey club, bankers, insururers... you get the idea.

Graveyards- yeah!

We passed great tombs like Greek temples and a mock Eygptian pyramid with cherubs atop with somebody or other buried beneath it. By far the biggest pile of flowers in the cemetery was in front of Eva Peron's (Evita's) tomb, the wife of Argentina's leader, Juan Peron, in the 1940s, she captured the hearts and imaginations of the working classes whilst simultaneously leading a flamboyant lifestyle. She died of cancer in 1952 and is revered by many around the world (and was recently portrayed by Madonna in 'Evita'). 

Most of the flowers outside Eva Peron's tomb had seen better days.