Buenos Aires Day 5

Recoleta Cemetery - by far the most unusual place I have ever been. It's like a little city, but it's all rypts where families are buried. Some are really modern and new, but most are old with cobwebs n the doors. You can see inside the little room where some coffins are (along with photos and whatever else the family has put in there) and there are stairs down to a room that I assume holds the rest. 

Feral cats roam the place. It's REALLY creepy but very very cool. We saw Evita's family's crypt, where she is buried with them. You gotta be someone to be buried here. It's a major status symbol even today, but most graves date back to the 1800's. They are elaborate with statues and all kinds of adornment. I think what makes it so unusual is that each family has this little house in which to honor their dead, and they decorate it to their taste as you would a home to live in, and each family seems to want to out-do the others. So it seems more like a neighborhood than a cemetery. 

If you are realy special, there are road signs directing visitors to your crypt.