Doors of Buenos Aires, Argentina – March 4, 2018
We began our tour of Buenos Aires at La Recoleta Cemetery, where many famous Argentinians are buried, including the Eva Peron. This cemetery was rated by CNN in 2013 as one of the 10 most beautiful cemeteries in the world. As you can see from the featured image, there are walkways lined with crypts, each one trying to be more beautiful than the next.
Eva Peron’s crypt is small and less gaudy, although the people often bring flowers to decorate it.
Here is the plaque next to the crypt door:
Here are a few more pictures of some of the older crypts:
Each crypt plot has a family owner. The cemetery is completely full, so if you want to be buried there, you need to negotiate the sale of an existing crypt plot. You can then have yourself or a family member buried in the existing crypt, or you can tear the crypt down and build a new one more to your liking.
Our tour then moved to the La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires to a small but colorful area called Caminito, where the building are painted in pastel and even some brighter colors, with artistic depictions of people hanging out of windows or standing on balconies.
Here are a couple of pictures of the neighborhood to give you a bit more flavor, even though they do not feature specific doors.
There are also many huge bank buildings in Buenos Aires. Here is a door from one of those building located across from the La Casa Rosada (the executive mansion and office of the President of Argentina):
Here is an image of La Casa Rosada:
Our next stop will be Montevideo, Uraguay. Stay tuned.
doors… and so much more.
enjoyed the colors of argentia in the second half and the crypts are so interesting – I was intrigued by the figure of girl and dog
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I was intrigued by that figure as well. I could not read the Spanish inscriptions, so I don’t know the back story.
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well in a way the figure says a lot on its own….
and maybe that was the point – but whoever she was – she was loved and maybe died young…
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She came from a loving and very rich family.
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What a wonderful collection of doors – I think I like the huge arched doors of the bank the best. They remind me of similar doors here in Hartford.
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Banks like to have an air of invulnerability.
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I loved the bank doors as well. I would imagine a crypt would be costly today or are they as much in favour as back in the day?
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Still in favor for the rich. Had a good trip for writing. Added 6,000 words to book2 of the trilogy. Only 10-15k to go.
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Congratulations, that’s indeed quite wonderful! You’ll be there in no time! Thank you for sharing your trip, it’s such a pleasure to witness your travels.
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What a beautiful city of doors. I love the tour of the cemetery.
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Thanks. We loved the tour of Buenos Aires.
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