The Cats of Recoleta Cemetery

This post is dedicated to Colin, proud poppi to a little blue-eyed gatito.

A colony of cats live in the famous Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires where Evita Perón is buried. My tour guide said a lot of heady stuff about them being the angels and spirits of the cemetery, guardians if you will. I just photographed them since I'm a cat person.

There are a few Web sites dedicated to these cats, but the gist of the story is this: they are well cared for by a group of local women who feed them, spay and neuter them, and give them other medical attention.

As a sidenote, I visited the cemetery the day Evita's oldest sister was laid to rest in the Duarte family tomb (Evita's maiden name), and caught the tail end of the burial.