Cementerio de la Chacarita

Cementerio de la Chacarita review

Now far more expansive than Recoleta's exclusive necropolis, with numbered streets and car access to its thousands of vaults, this cemetery is largely for ordinary folk. Still, a number of popular heroes have also wound up here, including Carlos Gardel, Alfonsina Storni and aviation pioneer Jorge Newbery.

Until 1939, Chacarita also held the cemeteries of the Jewish, British and German communities. After the middle of the last century with Hitler affecting relations even in far-off Argentina, the Jews left for a new site west of the city, and the Brits and Germans built walls to separate their dead.