Explore elegant Recoleta and its cemetery

The upscale Recoleta district is Buenos Aires at its most refined, with grand French-style architecture, leafy plazas, and the city's most famous sight: the Recoleta Cemetery. This extraordinary city of the dead is a maze of ornate marble mausoleums, including the tomb of Eva Perón, and it's free to wander (a genuinely fascinating, if unusual, highlight). Around it lie excellent museums, including the free National Museum of Fine Arts, and the lively weekend craft fair. It makes a perfect, low-cost day. We'll point you to the cemetery's highlights and the best of Recoleta's free attractions.