Exploring Buenos Aires

We started the day at the Recoleta Cemetary 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. Some grave sites were in disrepair. Families have the site for 99 years and then payment must be made to keep the site or the site can be resold and the bodies buried there must be moved. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some burial vaults were quite elaborate.  We learned quite a bit about Argentinian history from our guide. Did you know that three years after Eva Peron's death in 1952 years ago, her embalmed corpse disappeared, removed by the Argentinian military in the wake of a coup that deposed her husband, President Juan Peron. It then went on a global odyssey for nearly two decades. In October 1976 her body was finally placed in her family's mausoleum in Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We saw the Colon Opera House. It is considered one of the ten best opera houses in the world by National Geographic. It was complete in 1908 and was refurbished from October 2006 to May 2010.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Casa Rosada, the pink house, is the president of the Argentine Republic's official workplace.

The Obelisco de Buenos Aires is a 67.5-meter-high iconic monument located at the intersection of Avenida 9 de Julio and Avenida Corrientes. Inaugurated in 1936 to mark the 400th anniversary of the city's first foundation, it is a premier landmark for protests, celebrations, and tourist photos, representing the heart of the city. 
 

The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity is a Roman Catholic Cathedral in Buenos Aires, the capital city of Argentina. When you enter the cathedral there is a screen that displays a slide show of Pope Francis. He was born and raised in Buenos Aires. He became the archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was became a cardinal in 2001. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our last stop on our official tour was in the area the is called La Boca, the mouth. It has murals about events, protests,  politics and sports. Soccer players Maradona and Messi are very much adored in Argentina.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The "

desaparecidos" (disappeared) refers to an estimated 22,000 to 30,000 people kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by the Argentine military dictatorship during the "Dirty War" (1976–1983). Primarily targeting left-wing activists, students, and workers, the regime utilized clandestine detention centers, leaving thousands with unknown fates, creating a profound, enduring national trauma. The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo were the first major group to organize against the Argentina regime's human rights violations. They organized to learn what happened to their children and grandchildren.