{"id":3012,"date":"2011-07-09T18:39:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T21:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=3012"},"modified":"2011-07-09T18:39:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T21:39:45","slug":"425-miguel-bencich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=3012","title":{"rendered":"425. miguel bencich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Miguel Bencich\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201107A03.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Miguel Bencich\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Born in Trieste, Italy in 1888, <strong>Miguel Bencich<\/strong> already had experience in the construction business by the time he immigrated to Argentina in 1909. His brother, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=329\">Massimiliano<\/a>, arrived Buenos Aires the following year. Together they began the well-known construction company, <strong>Bencich Hermanos<\/strong>, in 1915.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Miguel Bencich\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200807E45.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Miguel Bencich\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sheer amount of real estate developed by these brothers is staggering. One building even bears Miguel&#8217;s name&#8230; its large domes easily stand out along Diagonal Norte in downtown Buenos Aires:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Buenos Aires, Diagonal Norte, Edificio Miguel Bencich\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200612G08.jpg\" alt=\"Buenos Aires, Diagonal Norte, Edificio Miguel Bencich\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since the majority of tombs in Recoleta Cemetery are for families &amp; not individuals, it seems odd that both Bencich brothers are not buried together. Miguel passed away first in 1965, then Massimiliano followed in 1972. Latin phrasing plus the company initials on Massimiliano&#8217;s tomb implies they would remain together for eternity. How Miguel became separated from his brother is a mystery:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Miguel Bencich\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200807E44.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Miguel Bencich\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Trieste, Italy in 1888, Miguel Bencich already had experience in the construction business by the time he immigrated to Argentina in 1909. His&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=3012\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">425. miguel bencich<\/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":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-architecture","category-business","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012","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=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}