Recoleta is a downtown residential neighborhood in the city of Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina ; it is an area of great historical and architectural interest, principally because the Recoleta Cemetery is located there.

The Recoleta is accessible by the “ D Line ” of the Buenos Aires Subway which passes through the neighborhood.

The Recoleta pathway is nearly the exact geographic center of the neighborhood, and one of its highest points in the city, which, at the end of the 19th century attracted wealthy families from the south of the city who sought to escape from the deadly yellow fever outbreak which began in 1871.

The Recoleta neighborhood is distinguished by its great cultural spaces.

The Recoleta Cemetery is one of the main tourist attractions in the neighborhood.

Several of the oldest and most prestigious schools in the capital are located in the Recoleta neighborhood.

Many tango lyrics reflect life in the Recoleta neighborhood.

It has been exaggerated that the Recoleta neighborhood has more statues than any neighborhood in the world.

Calle Junín, at the heart of the Recoleta neighborhood.

From the end of the nineteenth-century to the start of the 1920s, the Recoleta neighborhood has witnessed the construction of a great number of “ châteaux ” ( often imitating those of the Loire valley in France ), as well as Parisian style petits hôtels, almost always designed by architects of French origin.

All over Recoleta, petits hôtels which contrast with larger and more modern apartment buildings, still grace the neighborhood.

Additionally, on the side streets of the neighborhood, there is a large number of rental properties of more practical design, whose compact structure and austere appearance contrast with the predominantly neoclassic style of much of Recoleta.

One particular area of Recoleta, bounded by Agüero, Córdoba, Mario Bravo, Soler, Sánchez de Bustamante, and Mansilla streets, is not normally considered to be a part of the Recoleta neighborhood, but rather belonging to the Palermo area.

For that reason, it is one of the more economical areas of the neighborhood, although some residents may not realize that they do in fact reside in Recoleta.

Unlike other areas of Recoleta, the only historic structure in this particular portion of the neighborhood is the Ricardo Gutiérrez Children ’ s Hospital.

Of the important residents of the Recoleta neighborhood, the writers Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo stand out.

Candia was born in Asunción, in a neighborhood called Villa Aurelia, southeast of the Recoleta, on August 1, 1878.

La Recoleta Cemetery () is a cemetery located in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

She is buried in La Recoleta Cemetery ).

His grave is currently located in the Recoleta cemetery in Buenos Aires.

Luis Leloir is buried in La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires.

He died in Buenos Aires December 2, 1987, of a heart attack soon after returning to his home from the laboratory, and is buried in La Recoleta Cemetery.

Victoria Ocampo died in Buenos Aires in 1979, and is buried in La Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires.

The next day they were taken to a military gun carriage escorted by the Mounted Grenadiers Regiment at Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. 1 The remains of former President rested temporarily in the vault of the fallen in the Revolution of the Park until 16 May were transferred to a single monument in the cemetery in a place built of gray and beige marble, where there is a cross on top and a bright stained glass by entering a glimmer.

He is buried in La Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires.

The elegant northern neighbourhood of Recoleta ( part of the area known as Barrio Norte ) is located north of Balvanera, crossing Córdoba avenue.

Part of Greater Santiago, it is bordered by the communes of Santiago to the west, Recoleta to the northwest, Las Condes and Vitacura to the northeast, La Reina to the east, and Ñuñoa to the south.

Together with some sections of the neighboring communities of Retiro and Palermo, Recoleta forms a part of the area known as Barrio Norte, Buenos Aires, a traditional residential zone for the city ’ s most affluent families, where a great portion of the cultural life of the city is concentrated.

In addition to historical monuments, it is home to the National Fine Arts Museum or Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, the National Library of Argentina, the Recoleta Cultural Center, and other exhibition venues.

Some of the work of the noteworthy architect, Clorindo Testa, is located in Recoleta.

It was for that reason that, while the underprivileged classes settled in the south-southwest of the city, the most wealthy settled in the Recoleta area, where the height of the terrain reduced the presence of insects which transmitted the diseases.

This may be due to fact that it displays a more recent design style than the average area of Recoleta, and of a visibly inferior quality of construction.

Recoleta is also a distinctive gastronomic area of the city.

According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Recoleta spans an area of and has 148, 220 inhabitants ( 72, 314 men and 75, 906 women ), making the commune an entirely urban area.

His tomb at La Recoleta Cemetery lies under a sculpture, a condor upon a pylon, designed by himself and executed by Victor de Pol.

When it ceased functioning as a shelter for the indigent, it was acquired by the city and converted into the Centro Cultural Recoleta, one of the most important exhibition halls for the plastic arts in the city.

The Recoleta Cemetery also possesses many exquisite works of art, obscured by their funerary location: the sculpture known as the Cristo Muerto by Giulio Monteverde, for example.

As a commune, Recoleta is a third-level administrative division of Chile administered by a municipal council, headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years.

Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Recoleta is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Patricio Hales ( PPD ) and Sra.

The club gave a small room in his home district of Montevideo 1585 ( Recoleta ), to be the first clubhouse.

The 21st edition of the Buenos Aires Marathon started on October 9, 2005 at 7: 30 at the 9 de Julio Avenue and Córdoba Avenue in the Recoleta neighbourhood, being the start also the ending point after the 42. 195 kilometres ( 26 miles and 385 yards ) of the classic race.