Recoleta Cemetery, crypts, mausoleums, architecture, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Tomb of Coronel Federico de Brandsen (left). Designed by a French architect, Recoleta Cemetery was dedicated in 1822, and is an outstanding display of 1800-1900s funerary art, crypts, mausoleums, and architecture, all above ground, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America. The tomb of Eva Perón is the most-visited. Cementerio de la Recoleta contains the mortal remains of many other figures in Argentine history: Juan Bautista Alberdi, Manuel Dorrego, Bartolomé Mitre, Juan Manuel de Rosas, Cornelio Saavedra, Guillermo Brown, and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento.

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Tomb of Coronel Federico de Brandsen (left). Designed by a French architect, Recoleta Cemetery was dedicated in 1822, and is an outstanding display of 1800-1900s funerary art, crypts, mausoleums, and architecture, all above ground, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America. The tomb of Eva Perón is the most-visited. Cementerio de la Recoleta contains the mortal remains of many other figures in Argentine history: Juan Bautista Alberdi, Manuel Dorrego, Bartolomé Mitre, Juan Manuel de Rosas, Cornelio Saavedra, Guillermo Brown, and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento.