Buenos Aires Dead

Recoleta Cemetery, the final resting place of Evita and other boldfaced names of Buenos Aires society, now has its own blog. AfterLife is a new creation by map-maker, tour guide, travel writer and photographer Robert Wright (mentioned in this space before). Why do BA's dead need their own blog? Well, the cemetery is huge, fascinating and there aren't many reliable fonts of information for English-speaking tourists once you're there. (The old ladies feeding the stray cats may give you an earful, but even the master of Argentine Spanish could find their stories hard to follow.)

AfterLife offers Recoleta's urban legends (there's one about a girl named Rufina who died on her 19th birthday in 1902 and might have escaped her stunning Art Nouveau mausoleum), historical notes, photography tips and a particularly interesting run down on the various ways those imposing coffin-houses are ventilated. The blog's tags currently run from architecture to vistas.

AfterLife: Documenting Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires [Official Site]