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Recoleta Cemetery...
most tourists come here, take a few pictures, visit Evita's grave and that's it.
But the coolest thing is to know its legends.
I'm Túlio Pires Bragança
and today on Aires Buenos TV
we're gonna learn three of the most surreal stories of the Recoleta Cemetery.
The girl who died twice...
One of the most poetic mausoleums
is from Rufina Cambaceres. The legend says that, on her 19th birthday,
her mother would throw a huge celebration to present
her daughter to society.
However, a few moments before the party, Rufina was found dead.
She was burried the next day. But a few days later,
the cemetery workers found her tomb wide open and her casket broken.
The original version says that the tomb was stolen. But people say that
Rufina was suffering from catalepsy,
because there were many scratches inside her casket.
Her mausoleum shows a girl holding a door ***, as if she wanted to leave
-- or enter --
in the dead world.
The gravedigger who loved its tomb too much...
David was just one of the many cemetery workers.
But his ultimate dream was to spend the eternity here.
He saved every penny during his life to build the perfect mausoleum.
He even had traveled to Italy to buy his
own sculpture,
that shows a gravedigger with his tools.
His tomb was built even with the year of his death, which was creepy enough.
But David had never explained to his friends about this crazy coincidence. On the day that
he finally had finished building his mausoleum, David quit his job and said goodbye to his friends.
When he got home, he shot himself in the head and finally
was able to rest at the cemetery that he loved so much.
Separated in life, separated in death..
Some couples want to live a never ending love story.
But this couple did
exactly the opposite: eternal resentment.
Salvador Maria de Carril and his wife Tiburcia was an aristocratic
couple from Buenos Aires who was always fighting about everything.
After a huge argument regarding Tiburcia's debts, they stopped
talking to each other for more than 30 years.
When he died, his wife built a beautiful mausoleum
with his statue facing south.
15 years later, Tiburcia passed away, and her dying wish
was that her statue should be facing away from her husband,
showing that her hate would
last the eternity.
So, are you scared or interested about these legends?
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See you next time!