Cementerio de La Chacarita: No solo un lugar de descanso, sino una verdadera joya histórica y cultural El Cementerio de La Chacarita no es tan famoso como el Cementerio de la Recoleta, pero es igualmente fascinante y lleno de historia. La extensa área del cementerio ofrece amplios senderos rodeados de árboles, creando una atmósfera tranquila y serena. Aquí descansan personalidades célebres como Carlos Gardel, el icónico cantante de tango, cuya tumba está adornada con una estatua en su honor. Además de las tumbas tradicionales, el cementerio también cuenta con columbarios, estructuras diseñadas para almacenar urnas con las cenizas de los difuntos. Los columbarios en La Chacarita son grandes muros con nichos donde se colocan las urnas, a menudo acompañadas de placas conmemorativas y decoraciones especiales. Es recomendable tomar una visita guiada para aprender más sobre las personas que descansan aquí y la historia de Buenos Aires. Lo mejor es visitar el lugar por la mañana o a primeras horas del día para evitar el calor. read more

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We visited Chacarita Cemetery ten years ago this week, a few days after having visited Recoleta Cemetery. Although Chacarita isn't as huge or as gorgeous as Recoleta, it's still lovely and well worth visiting. I've posted a few photos.... read more

Cementerio de Chacarita - Funeral Services & Cemeteries Near Me - Buenos Aires, C

Absolutely amazing. The tombs and architecture are incredible. It is oddly quiet in such a busy part of the city. Don't miss the incredible block long mural on the outside. I highly recommend it. I also recommend staying in Chacarita. It is a safe neighborhood with lots of restaurants and parks. Very safe. read more

Chacarita Cemetery is really well located (few steps from Urquiza train line and Subte B's Lacroze station, and there are many bus stops nearby) but definitely not as popular as Recoleta cemetery. Sure, it's bigger, but size doesn't matter (hey) even though the comparisons are unavoidable. Established in 1887, this cemetery is 65 years newer than the one in Recoleta, but it's 216 acres larger. Their genesis are also quite different, since Chacarita cemetery owes theirs to the yellow fever victims that were refused burial in Recoleta. Nowadays, the area around Recoleta cemetery is trendy, almost upscale, while Chacarita neighborhood is humbler and, if you're faint of heart, maybe even a bit on the scary side. The cemetery is huge, with streets and sidewalks that cover the expanse of this impressive place. The first section contains the mausoleums, some of them are pristine architectural wonders, while others are grim and graphic reminders that nothing lasts forever. This is, in my opinion, the best part of the cemetery and I wouldn't recommend to prioritize exploring beyond instead of focusing on the mausoleums. The next section is a vast expanse of land with strange structures that fool the eye from afar. Those structures are staircases that go two floors below, in a pseudo open-space so it isn't as creepy, where the niches are located. It looks like giant walls of file cabinets for coffins, similar to columbariums. These niches also surround the cemetery, like a protective wall. Some of them are empty, abandoned or broken, like most things in Chacarita Cemetery. The last part is acres and acres of graves. Some of them are very new, as you will be able to tell by the freshly removed dirt, some of them are now unmarked and waiting for removal and reuse of the plot. There aren't many remarkable headstones, although two things surprised me: first, the windmills and other moving things in cemeteries will always freak me out, and now they are writing 'RIP' (by hand, kinda charming in a very simplistic, sad way) on the crosses instead of the 'QEPD' Spanish version. Is it because it's shorter? Because of movies? There are also some lovely pantheons, a huge crematorium, a chapel, and historical archives. The Cemetery is well guarded, so don't hesitate to get lost if you have the time and are into that sort of thing. read more

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Nice afternoon stroll for tourists and necrophiliacs. (This is my 666th review, appropriate isn't it?) read more