Creepy Monday
I little creepy to start this week, but Recoleta cemetery is not only about nice mausoles, it is also about unmaintained crypts like that one. It had been such a suprise for me the first time I got to see coffins. I’ve never seen one before in a cemetery, as in France, they’re all behind walls. It’s shoking at first, and it is still shoking everytime I walk by the cemetery. Some graves are in very bad conditions in this cemetery, which I will show you later, together with (thanks god) really nice ones.
Wow… and you have to go down by these stairs? uh-oh.. I’m afraid it’s a wierd smell around there… :S
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DsoleJan 08, 2007 @ 6:16 am
Wow, that is amazing! I saw caskets piled up in Dublin at St. Michan’s church, very old and dusty too. There is even a body that you can touch of a crusader!
RuthJan 08, 2007 @ 2:43 pm
!! my hair actually stood when i scroll down after your today’s post (9/1)..
krisJan 09, 2007 @ 5:11 pm
Hi
I’m writing a paper for my degree course in Spanish and Latin American studies on burial sites in South America. I see from your blog that you’ve visited Recoleta Cemetary in Buenos Aires. The place left me with quite a lasting impression and would be interested to hear other people’s views on it. Would you mind dropping me an email to tell me what you thought of the place and why? Just a few lines, if you can find the time. I would be very grateful.
I’m also going to write something on the general cemetary in Porvenir (Chile) and the burial site of El Senor de Sipán, so if you’ve been there, too, I would lalso be very interested to learn what you think of these places.
Naturally this also applies to anyone else who reads this comment on your blog.
Kind regards
Kathryn
KathrynJan 18, 2007 @ 3:26 pm