Thursday, 9 October 2014
15. Roverano - this tomb has what looks like a sailor looking straight ahead - as if eager to leave the sad past behind.
16. Tomas Guido - his son was an artist and designed the tomb for his father, with old looking bricks and plants, giving it a natural and ancient look.
17. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - Argentina's president from 1868 to 1974. He designed his own tomb, in keeping with his association as a Freemason. The tomb contains many Masonic symbols, including the all-seeing eye, pyramids and compasses.
18. Bartolomew Mitre, a former president of Argentina.
19. Dorrego-Ortiz Basualdo - contains both a Christian cross and a Jewish menorah. It is to show the religious conversion the family made when they moved to Argentina in the 16th century, paying homage to the family roots. This tomb has the most monumental sepulchre, complete with chandeliers.
20. Rufina Cambaceres - a young woman who was buried alive in the early 1900s. She was apparently in a coma, and a few days after her interment, workers heard screams from the tomb. Once opened, there were scratches on her face and on the coffin from trying to escape. Her mother then built this Art Nouveau masterpiece, which has become a symbol of the cemetery. Her coffin is a Carrara marble slab, carved with a rose on top, and it sits behind a glass wall, as if her mother wanted to make up for her mistake in burying her and make sure to see her coffin if she were ever to come back again. Adorned by a young girl carved of marble who turns her head to those watching her, she looks as if she is about to break into tears, and the right hand is on the door of her own tomb.
21. Jose C. Paz - this is one of the most beautiful tombs in the entire cemetery, both for its subject matter and the pure artistic skill that went into its creation. The Paz family owned La Prensa, one of the nation's most important newspapers, as well as the building now known as the Circulo Militar. It is an enormous black stone structure covered with numerous white marble angels that seem almost to soar to heaven, lifting up the spirit of those inside with their massive wings, leaving their bodies on earth. The sculptures were all made in Paris and shipped here.
22. Pablo Riccheri, a general in the military.
23. Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, a general in the military and former president of Argentina. His body was also frequently stolen, in revenge to those who stole Evita Peron's body.
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