We already told you about the La Recoleta cemetery, now we Hill introduce you to the other famous Porteño cemetery: La Chacarita. Well known for hosting for many years the rests of former President Juan Domingo Perón, La Chacarita is the biggest cemetery of Argentina and South America. Opposite to La Recoleta, in its graves rest popular figures as tango singers and artist close to the popular feelings. It’s also the place many middle class Porteños choose.That yellow fever epidemic that moved the high class Porteños to the north of the city when they took the La Recoleta cemetery, also forced the authorities to think of alternatives to bury the thousands of bodies it caused. Then, this place in Chacarita neighborhood was assigned to this matter. In the beginning –logically- it wasn’t much esteemed and people called it “the cemetery of the plague infected”.
Sanitary causes closed La Chacarita in 1875. In 1887, with the epidemic far behind, it was reopened. The conditions improved and its fame reverted. In the beginnings of the XX Century, the City Crematorium was established here (to incinerate every deceased the yellow fever caused). As time passed, the place became what it is today: a place with a special charm and a sculptural and architectonic richness.Among its famous characters resting there are: the famous tango singer Carlos Gardel, accompanied by almost every famous tango artist as Osvaldo Pugliese, Anibal Troilo, Celedonio Flores, Julio and Francisco De Caro, the popular singers Miguel de Molina and Ernesto Montiel, the poet Alfonsina Storni, the actor Luis Sandrini, the painter Benito Quinquela Martín and sportsmen as the jockey Irineo Leguisamo, the car racer Oscar Alfredo Gálvez and the River Plate football/soccer player, Adolfo Pedernera, among others.
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