Prominent landowner Dorrego Ortíz Basualdo resides in Recoleta's most monumental sepulcher, complete with a chandelier! This mausoleum is possibly the graveyard's most priceless structure.
The mausoleum was designed by the French architect Louis Dubois as a chapel. The lavishness of the mausoleum’s structure reflects an enormous wealth of the family Basualdo. In front of the chapel there is a richly decorated niche with symbolic scenes from the Gospel’s parable of wise virgins. The white marble statue of Virgin is a replica of the work by Italian Giovanni Villa. In the mixture of symbolism, the decoration includes a Latin cross with names of four evangelists and a seven-branched candelabrum that is one of the oldest symbols of the Jewish people.