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Mark and Marie
We had a full day's tour while in Buenos Aires at the start of our South American cruise in 2016. This began with a visit to La Recoleta Cemetery. Laid out in a grid pattern like a city with some wide avenues and some side streets between mausoleums, largely of very rich or prominent families in the city, this is most famously the resting place of Eva Perón. An overcast day gave it all a suitably sombre feel for the visit but the large number of stray cats around the place cheered us up.

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We're in a cemetery in the middle of a city but with its tiled straight paths between equally-spaced mausoleums there's no sign of that city around. We're looking along a wide path between two rows of mausoleums that ends at a junction across which more spread either side. At the very end there is a tall structure with arched recess into which a stone coffin is raised, all under a sharply-pointed roof supporting three crosses. The mausoleums either side of us - all taller than us - are of different designs and use different stones and colours in their creation; an ornate, polished yellow next to a shiny black tomb on the left contrast well against the largely whites and greys on the opposite side. The path is textured with small, terracotta tiles and there are a couple of small trees further along with a couple of stone benches nearer us. Under the bench on the right there are some bowls of water or food out for animals and a black and white cat is making use of them.
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