After training and back home for a quick shower and lunch...we headed to the bus with Lorena...our faithful tour guide for a trip around Buenos Aires city...our first stop was the Recoleta area. The area has a lot of restaurants, a great flea market on the park and the famous cemetery, where the beloved Eva Peron...Evita, is buried.
The cemetery was built for the wealthy and is made up of hundreds of mausoleums....most made of marble and beautiful stone....some made of brick and other materials. Each mausoleum has a stair case inside where the bodies of generations of families are kept. Evita was the husband of Argentine president, Juan Peron. She died at the age of 33 in 1952 from ovarian cancer. She is remembered as someone who championed the poor and disenfranchised and is a towering figure in Argentine culture, even today. She was buried in the "Duarte" family tomb, which was the name of her real father. Her father was very wealthy, but had two families and did not "participate" in the raising of Eva, who grew up and rose from extreme poverty.
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