One of the attractions of Buenos Aires is the Recoleta Cemetery, where Evita and celebrities were buried.
In the Recoleta Cemetery, family chapels line the latticed streets closely. Its style ranges from Neo‐Classicism to Art Nouveau and Art Deco, and the level of design is so high as a copy of Buenos Aires. It is just a nested structure, that is, there is another architectural city within the architectural city.
However, probably because of the price of a parcel, a parcel shape is deep and long with a narrow frontage. In addition, each chapel's design and size must had decided by the requests of each family and perhaps by its financial situation. So, though each chapel has a bourgeois beauty, the lack of sensation of unity in the whole is notable. So, it acquires no atmosphere of upmarket residential district but that of the built-up proletariat downtown. It seems to suggest the real world where, even if parts are excellent, it can not be a wonderful streetscape without consideration for the neighbors' buildings.
In the world after death, people would not consider their surroundings and they would live as they like?
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