{"id":101,"date":"2008-01-14T09:21:56","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T11:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=101"},"modified":"2008-01-14T09:21:56","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T11:21:56","slug":"david-alleno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"092. juan alleno &loz;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"David Alleno, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201011A04.jpg\" alt=\"David Alleno, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although this skinny, narrow mausoleum doesn&#8217;t stand out, an urban legend lurks inside. Peek through the door to find the sculpture of <strong>David Alleno<\/strong>&#8212;caretaker in Recoleta Cemetery from 1881 to 1910.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like the caretakers of today, David had a certain sector which he maintained &amp; apparently became obsessed over where his final resting place would be. Members of the Alleno family claim that David&#8217;s brother, Juan, had already purchased this plot for his family&#8230; perhaps that inspired David to be buried in Recoleta Cemetery as well. After saving over a lifetime, he was able to have a sculpture made of himself at work, complete with keys, broom &amp; watering can:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"David Alleno, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200801C02.jpg\" alt=\"David Alleno, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"David Alleno, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200801C04.jpg\" alt=\"David Alleno, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Urban legend claims that when the sculpture arrived from Italy &amp; was placed in the tomb, David was so eager to complete the project that he went home &amp; committed suicide&#8230; knowing that he would soon rest in peace here. Whether the motive is true or not, David Alleno is now locked in with the elite residents of Recoleta Cemetery:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"David Alleno, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200801C06.jpg\" alt=\"David Alleno, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Update (07 Nov 2010):<\/strong> Thanks to an investigation by <a href=\"http:\/\/vintageries.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/david-alleno-el-cuidador.html\">Guada Aballe<\/a>, we know a few more facts about the life of David Alleno&#8230; &amp; she found photos too! One of the best resources for early 20th century Buenos Aires history is <strong><em>Caras &amp; Caretas<\/em><\/strong>, a local magazine with political &amp; social commentary. In the <strong>10 Apr 1909<\/strong> edition, Recoleta Cemetery workers were concerned about a change in administration. Various caretakers were photographed &amp; David Alleno appeared in the article:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"David Alleno, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/Alleno1.jpg\" alt=\"David Alleno, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"350\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"David Alleno, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/Alleno2.jpg\" alt=\"David Alleno, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"295\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">David Alleno spent 28 years working at Recoleta Cemetery &amp; according to his death certificate&#8212;also amazingly uncovered by Guada&#8212;he passed away on 31 Aug 1915. The cause of death is listed as &#8220;trauma &amp; cerebral contusion.&#8221; Of course whether or not the head injury was self-inflicted does not appear on the death certificate. But we&#8217;re one step closer to uncovering the truth behind the urban legend. Thanks, Guada!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although this skinny, narrow mausoleum doesn&#8217;t stand out, an urban legend lurks inside. Peek through the door to find the sculpture of David Alleno&#8212;caretaker in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=101\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">092. juan alleno &loz;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-architecture","category-operation","category-urban-legends","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}