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28-DEC-2011

Recoleta Cemetery

The cemetery is laid out like a well planned city. Neat city blocks with 90 degree corners are well kept and covered in stone and concrete. There are street names on every corner, and even a town center which contains most of the plant life of the cemetery. For the most part rock, marble, stone, concrete and brass are all you can see on the narrow streets between the mausoleums, so it is a treat to see the trees and grass in the center. Each mausoleum represents a different style of architecture from Greek temples and pyramids to fairy tale like castles. Again like a downtown of a city each mausoleum touches the walls of the next, a straight line dividing two different types of architecture. The fronts of the tombs are adorned with angles, carvings of Jesus, stained glass windows and plaques with the names of the deceased. Most of the plaques include the date of death, but very few have the birthdates as is customary in the United States.

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