Thursday, 8 December 2011

Chacarita Cemetery








This is a Cemetery super close to my house. Its the largest in Buenos Aires and has a number of different areas. There is the traditional Mausoleums for the richer folk and then the graves as you would see in the UK. However they also have a strange third part to it. Underground there is a network of essentially coffin and ashes boxes. We worked out there must be about 100,000+ graves. What made it even weirder was that it was underground and all cement which gave it the air of communist Russia. It really was astonishing and not something that I have seen before.

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