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Plaza Dorrego vs Cementerio de la Recoleta
Plaza Dorrego and Recoleta Cemetery are both highly recommended by professional reviewers writing for major publications. Overall, Recoleta Cemetery scores significantly higher than Plaza Dorrego. Recoleta Cemetery comes in at #5 in Buenos Aires with recommendations from 7 reviews like Time Out, Frommer's and Concierge.
Plaza Dorrego
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Plaza Dorrego, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Fodor's
"During the week a handful of craftspeople and a few scruffy pigeons are the only ones enjoying the shade from the stately trees in the city's second-oldest square."
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Concierge
"The heart of San Telmo, formerly the playground of B.A.'s 19th-century elite, is this Spanish-style plaza, the site of several busy open-air cafés."
Travel + Leisure
"Though the market is renowned for its Deco furniture and accessories, there’s also, as at all the best fleas, a multitude of “smalls” to choose from as well."
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Fodor's
"Wood-paneled, dust-festooned Bar Plaza Dorrego is right on San Telmo's main square."
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Independent
"Most afternoons, you can catch a spectacular free tango performance right in the middle of Plaza Dorrego square"
Microguides
January 6, 2022
Cementerio de la Recoleta
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Junin 1790, Buenos Aires 1116, Argentina
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Fodor's
"The ominous gates, Doric-columned portico, and labyrinthine paths of the city's oldest cemetery (1822) may leave you with a sense of foreboding."
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Concierge
"A who's who of Argentinean bold-faced names rests among Recoleta Cemetery's tombs and mausoleums, from the Alvears and the Dorregos to heavyweight boxer Luis Ángel Firpo."
Frommer's
"Open daily from 8am to 6pm, this is the final resting place of many of the wealthiest and most important Argentine historical figures."
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Travel + Leisure
"With more than 4,700 ornate stone crypts laid out along a streetlike grid, this graveyard is an architectural masterpiece, and an eerie miniature city for the wealthy dead."
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Time Out
"The cemetery, opened in 1822, is home to hundreds of illustrious corpses, laid out in a compact yet very extensive maze of granite, marble and bronze mausoleums."
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