Recoleta Cemetery

This guide to Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires walks the marble mausoleums of Argentina's old-money families before turning to Eva Perón, buried here after a death in 1952 at just thirty-three. It follows the embalmer who spent years preserving her body, and the strange journey that body took after the military overthrew her husband, including years hidden abroad under a false name. Walk the marble avenues slowly — the family names carved on the grandest tombs made their fortunes in land, newspapers and finance.