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In short
Recoleta Cemetery is a walled city of 4,700 mausoleums in the middle of Buenos Aires, free to enter, and the resting place of Eva Perón. An hour covers it with a guide; without one you will find the map but not the stories.
It reads as a small city because it was built like one: paved streets on a grid, marble facades in every style Europe exported between 1830 and 1930, and family vaults with staircases down to five or six generations.
Eva Perón's tomb is the one everyone finds — modest, in the Duarte family vault, and usually with flowers. The ones worth the guide are the others: presidents, a Nobel laureate, and the mausoleum of a girl who is said to have been buried alive.
It sits next to the Recoleta cultural centre and the Pilar basilica, and the weekend craft fair on the grass outside is the other half of the afternoon.
What Recoleta Cemetery is known for
- Eva Perón's tomb in the Duarte family vault
- 4,700 vaults on a walkable grid of marble streets
- The Pilar basilica, 1732, next door
- The weekend craft fair on Plaza Francia
- Free entry — the guide is the thing worth paying for
Practical detail
- Entry
- Free
- How long
- 1 hour with a guide
- Where
- Junín 1760, Recoleta
- Combines with
- Pilar basilica and the Plaza Francia fair
What a trip to Recoleta Cemetery costs
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|---|---|---|---|
| Best of Buenos Aires 3-Day Walking Tours | 3 days | US$39 | Book |
| 3-Day Buenos Aires Budget Tour Package | 3 days | US$140 | Book |
| Best of Buenos Aires 3 Day Tour Pakcage | 3 days | US$425 | Book |
| Buenos Aires Traditional 5 day tour package | 5 days | US$535 | Book |
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Frequently asked
Is Recoleta Cemetery free?
Yes, entry is free. A guide is what turns it from a walk among marble into an hour of Argentine history, and that is the part worth paying for.
How long do you need at Recoleta Cemetery?
About an hour. Two if you are reading the inscriptions, and the craft fair outside will take another one on a weekend.
Where is Eva Perón buried?
In the Duarte family vault inside Recoleta Cemetery. It is deliberately modest and easy to walk past, which is why most people find it on a guided route.