Today we have walked the city from where we are staying down to Recolita and Palermo where there are markets and the zoo. One thing I have discovered is that markets, the world over are the same and zoos very definitely are not! This zoo was built late 19 th century and must have once been amazing, with buildings so opulent and ornate and also a wide variety of styles but mostly influenced by French styles. The zoo and botanic gardens were built right out of the original city and then Yellow fever hit and people with money moved out of the city to those areas. They built houses that are now for example embassies etc.
These mansions are now either well kept or ramshackle depending on who owns them. The law in Argentina says you have to leave property to each child equally, so once split they are not maintained.
Yesterday we went to the graveyard where Eva Peron is buried and that was very interesting because they are buried in alley ways of crypts. Again either beutifully maintained or abandoned. Loads of photos but I am just making the most of Internet while I have it!
These mansions are now either well kept or ramshackle depending on who owns them. The law in Argentina says you have to leave property to each child equally, so once split they are not maintained.
Yesterday we went to the graveyard where Eva Peron is buried and that was very interesting because they are buried in alley ways of crypts. Again either beutifully maintained or abandoned. Loads of photos but I am just making the most of Internet while I have it!
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