{"id":1231,"date":"2010-01-04T11:10:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T14:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2025-11-30T13:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T12:07:06","slug":"373-luis-viale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=1231","title":{"rendered":"372. luis viale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/AGNViale.jpg\" alt=\"Luis Viale, Recoleta Cemetery\" title=\"Luis Viale, Recoleta Cemetery\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A cenotaph to <strong>Luis Viale<\/strong>\u00a0proudly sat in Recoleta Cemetery but has since been moved. An Italian immigrant dedicated to business &amp; banking, Viale was best known for his acts of bravery &amp; selfless courage. The last life he saved was during the 1871 sinking of the U.S. paddle steamer &#8220;America&#8221; off the coast of Montevideo after sailing from Buenos Aires. Seeing friend <strong>Carmen Pi\u00f1edo de Marc\u00f3 del Pont<\/strong> &#8212;pregnant &amp; without a lifebuoy&#8212; Viale gave his own away&#8230; &amp; later drowned along with 140 other passengers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paid for by public subscription, the statue by Italian sculptor Odoardo Tabacchi occupied a prominent location along the back wall of the cemetery from 1893 to 1928. After several changes of location &amp; now called the &#8220;<em>Monumento a Luis Viale<\/em>,&#8221; the statue can be found in Costanera Sur, dwarfed by neighboring highrises of Puerto Madero:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/flickrviale.jpg\" alt=\"Luis Viale, Flickr de Gabriel Arango\" title=\"Luis Viale, Flickr de Gabriel Arango\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a sidenote, the great-grandson of the unborn child saved by Viale is <strong>Horacio Rodr\u00edguez Larreta<\/strong>, mayor of Buenos Aires from 2015 to 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update (30 Nov 2025):<\/strong> We don&#8217;t have the source or date for the following photograph, but it&#8217;s too interesting not to post&#8230; apparently showing the construction &amp; placement of the cenotaph in 1893. Any data concerning this image&#8217;s origin is appreciated.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/LuisVialeRC.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:500px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"alert\">Top photo courtesy of the <em>Archivo General de la Naci\u00f3n<\/em>. Second photo courtesy of Gabriel Arango. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cenotaph to Luis Viale\u00a0proudly sat in Recoleta Cemetery but has since been moved. An Italian immigrant dedicated to business &amp; banking, Viale was best&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=1231\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">372. luis viale<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","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=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7371,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/7371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}