La Recoleta Cemetery. Buenos Aires, Argentina - January 2015. La Recoleta Cemetery (Spanish: Cementerio de la Recoleta) is a cemetery located in the Recoleta air viux .willy kening.The Recoleta Cemetery is a famous cemetery in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is located in the Recoleta neighborhood and contains the tombs of well-known people. Thus, it became the first public cemetery in the city. It was designed by Próspero Catelin, the barefoot friars of the Franciscan Recollect order7 arrived in the area where the Recoleta Cemetery is currently located, then on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, at the beginning of the 18th century. They built a convent and a church on the site in 1732,
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