The entrance and tours of the Cementerio de la Recoleta are free, and they are very informative and interesting. The site is beautiful (as odd as that may sound), and it is full of history...The tour guides are very knowlegeable and willing to answer questions...Eva Peron's body is here, although totally hidden...There are other beautiful monumets to see as well...Very nice...

I have been in Buenos Aires for over a month now. I am here writing a book and am doing research about the Cemetery in Recoleta. In order to help me find out as much information, I have taken 6 different tours of the Cemetery. Each one has offered me a new piece of information.

There are so many interesting stories in the cemetery. The woman that was buried alive is the crowd pleaser. And all the political legends and finsters buried side by side. There is no cemetery like in the world.

On my first visit, I was simply amazed at the architecture and visual treat that it was and had a hard time remembering the stories behind the tombs.

There are free tours of the cemetery offered twice a week. I took both of them, each from a different tour guide. The first one was very entertining however I almost felt embarassed for the young women who clearly has a future in drama. The second one was very dead pan (no pun intended) but some good info.

I hired a private tour guide for 25$USD, and found that tour to be overpriced but still, I learned about about the architecture of the cemetery.

One of the last tours I took was for 30 pesos (10USD). It included both Recoleta and the Cemetery. I really learned the most here and was able to ask questions and explore and enjoy myself. It was a private tour. Just me and the guide. Very fun and entertinaing and great ideas for my book. The cats of the cemetery included.
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There are many good tours of the Cemetery. If you search around a little you can find a real bargin. But no matter what you do, you should take a tour. Because there is simply so many treasures buried there, that you will never discover unless you spend days and days of researching.

I was in Buenos Aires for a week around a month ago during my travels around South America. One day I decided to go and check out the Recoleta Cemetery to see what all the fuss was about.

It was beautiful certainly, but I was a little bored because I had no idea who any of the people were with their names on the tombs, apart from Evita, but then I didn´t really know much about her apart from the fact that Madonna played her in a movie. So I got a little bored very quickly, and after a while started to walk out. On the way out I noticed a board saying there were free cemetery tours, and luckily one of them was due to start in half an hour. I waited around, and some other tourists gathered, but half an hour after the tour was due to start, still no sign of a tour guide. We were all a little annoyed at that point, so asked around to see if anyone knew what had happened, but no one knew anything. So I left the cemetery at that.

HOWEVER, that night I got talking to a guy in the Kilkenny pub who happened to be a tour guide for an English Walking Tours company. I didn't know this at first, and started to tell him about my cemetery experience and how I thought it was a little boring. He told me about his job and persuaded me to come on the tour the next day, claiming he would bring the cemetery to life with interesting stories of the famous people buried there, plus also the tour would include a section on the rest of Recoleta, the most stylish area of Buenos Aires apparently.

So I took his tour the next day at 11am, and it was fantastic. Just 20 pesos, he even turned up on time where he was supposed to unlike the free tour theday before! They were daily scheduled tours so there were 4 other people on it, but that was fine as they all seemed nice and the tour guide, Thom, made sure we all felt included. He showed us some great places to shop, eat and go out at night in Recoleta along the way to the cemetery, which although I couldn´t afford, all looked very nice, and I will definitely return one day when I am rich and famous!

The famous people in the cemetery had some really interesting stories about them too, and the tour guide really did bring them to life with some funny jokes too. So I recommend that to get the most out of Recoleta and the Cemetery that you take an organised walking tour from that company, whose web address is Buenostours.

That way, I hope you enjoy the cemetery and recoleta as much as I did, eventually!

My husband and I went to the Cementerio de la Recoleta last month. We decided to go to Recoleta on our own and stroll around the cemetery.
Outside the front entrance a young woman handed us a very nice and free map of the cemetery. A young man who was with her handed us a tract about Aids and explained that he has Aids and would we like to donate to help Aids patients. My husband handed him a few pesos. We then proceeded to use the map to navigate our way around to some of the main mausoleums. Once we entered the cemetery there were several people who offered to be guides but we turned them down. They were not pushy at all.
We enjoyed wandering around the tombs. It was interesting to see how people had competed to see who could have the most impressive memorial. It was also surprising to see that others are neglected and even have trash thrown in them.
The photos I am posting with this review are located in the center of the spoke where number 44 is. It is a shady spot where we were able to rest for a few minutes on a bench.
I would recommend going to the cemetery. It is possible to go for a casual tour such as we did or get a more in depth tour once you get there. These options are available for those who want to be flexible in their plans.