La Recoleta Cemetery
La Recoleta Cemetery is a cemetery located in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It contains the graves of notable people, including Eva Perón, presidents of Argentina, Nobel Prize winners, the founder of the Argentine Navy, and military commanders such as Julio Argentino Roca.
- Opening hours: 7:00 AM–5:30 PM
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Denomination: Catholic
- Description: cemetery in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Also known as: “Recoleta Cemetery”, “Recoleta Cemetry”, “кладовище Реколета”, “цвинтар Реколета”, “レコレータ墓地”, and “拉雷科莱塔公墓”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights: National Museum of Fine Arts and Centro Cultural Recoleta.
National Museum of Fine Arts
Museum
Centro Cultural Recoleta
Arts center
Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar, Buenos Aires
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Recoleta and The Island.
La Recoleta Cemetery
- Categories: cemetery and tourism
- Location: Comuna 2, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Pampas, Argentina, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-34.58765° or 34° 35′ 16″ south
Longitude
-58.3935° or 58° 23′ 37″ west
Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)
Wheelchair access
yes
Open location code
48Q3CJ64+WH
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OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemetery
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tourism=attraction
OpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=catholic
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“La Recoleta Cemetery” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقبرة لا ريكوليتا”
- Armenian: “Ռեկոլետա գերեզմանատուն”
- Asturian: “Cementeriu de la Recoleta”
- Azerbaijani: “Rekoleta qəbiristanlığı”
- Basque: “La Recoleta hilerria”
- Belarusian: “Могілкі Рэкалета”
- Belarusian: “Рэкалета (могілкі)”
- Belarusian: “Рэкалета”
- Catalan: “Cementiri de la Recoleta”
- Chinese: “雷科莱塔公墓”
- Czech: “Hřbitov La Recoleta”
- Danish: “La Recoleta kirkegård”
- Dutch: “Begraafplaats van Recoleta”
- Dutch: “La Recoleta begraafplaats”
- Esperanto: “Tombejo Rekoleta”
- French: “cimetière de Recoleta”
- French: “Cimetière de Recoleta”
- Galician: “cemiterio da Recoleta”
- Georgian: “რეკოლეტას სასაფლაო”
- German: “Friedhof La Recoleta”
- Greek: “Κοιμητήριο της Ρεκολέτα”
- Hebrew: “בית הקברות לה רקולטה”
- Hungarian: “recoletai temető”
- Hungarian: “Recoletai temető”
- Indonesian: “Pemakaman La Recoleta”
- Indonesian: “Permakaman La Recoleta”
- Irish: “Reilig Recoleta”
- Italian: “cimitero della Recoleta”
- Italian: “Cimitero della Recoleta”
- Japanese: “ラ・レコレタ墓地”
- Kurdish: “Goristana Recoletayê”
- Lithuanian: “Rekoletos kapinės”
- Luxembourgish: “Kierfecht La Recoleta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “La Recoleta gravplass”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cementèri de Recoleta”
- Persian: “آرامگاه رکولهتا”
- Polish: “Cementerio de la Recoleta”
- Portuguese: “Cemitério da Recoleta”
- Romanian: “Cimitirul La Recoleta”
- Russian: “кладбище Реколета”
- Russian: “Кладбище Реколета”
- Scottish Gaelic: “cladh Tornquist”
- Slovenian: “Pokopališče La Recoleta”
- Spanish: “Cementerio de la Recoleta”
- Swedish: “Cementerio de La Recoleta”
- Tatar: “Реколета зираты”
- Turkish: “La Recoleta Mezarlığı”
- Ukrainian: “Реколета”
- Welsh: “Mynwent Recoleta”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Villa 31 bis and La Containera.
Nearby Places
Places to explore: Julio Argentino Roca and José María Rosa.
Buenos Aires: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Centro and Palermo and Recoleta.
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