{"id":4023,"date":"2012-12-17T10:25:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T13:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=4023"},"modified":"2024-09-14T12:12:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T10:12:54","slug":"486-familias-de-atucha-y-sarasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=4023","title":{"rendered":"486. familias de atucha y sarasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Familias de Atucha y Sarasa\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200501C34.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Familias de Atucha y Sarasa\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Imposing but built on one of the more narrow paths of the cemetery, the mausoleum for the <strong>Familias de Francisco de Atucha y Azcu\u00e9naga y de Saturnino Sarasa<\/strong> is notoriously difficult to photograph. Even more difficult to see is the beautiful stained glass window inside&#8230; but it&#8217;s worth the effort:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Familias de Atucha y Sarasa, stained glass\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200707B23.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Familias de Atucha y Sarasa, stained glass\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the beginning of the 20th century, <strong>Jorge Atucha<\/strong> purchased some 35,000 hectares from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=180\">Duggan family<\/a>. The estate, located on the northern border of the Provincia de Buenos Aires, took the name &#8220;<em>El Pelado<\/em>&#8220;&#8212;perhaps Jorge was balding at the time! (confirmed in the comments below)&#8212;&amp; soon became a thriving cattle ranch. The family&#8217;s fortune grew when a branch of the Urquiza train line arrived to the estate in 1913 &amp; carried its products to the capital. The station was named <strong>Sarasa<\/strong> after the last name of Jorge&#8217;s mother.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Familias de Atucha y Sarasa\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200807C06.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Familias de Atucha y Sarasa\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the estate grew, so did the number of people needed to work it. By 1925, a small town began to emerge in order to provide services to estate workers. Unfortunately &#8220;<em>El Pelado<\/em>&#8221; did not survive the political &amp; economic crisis following the departure of Per\u00f3n. In later years, the last military dictatorship stopped train service, &amp; the town currently has a population of under 100 people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Familias de Atucha y Sarasa\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201212A12.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Familias de Atucha y Sarasa\" width=\"450\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the estate is still recognized as one of the oldest &amp; best breeders of thoroughbred race horses in the nation. And in spite of fortunes that come &amp; go, the Atucha family obviously did very well for themselves. Their tomb was designed by French architect <strong>Ren\u00e9 Sergent<\/strong>, although he never visited Buenos Aires. The beautifully crafted door &amp; crowning angels would certainly draw much more attention if this tomb had been built on a main walkway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Familias de Atucha y Sarasa, Ren\u00e9 Sergant signature\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200707B22.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Familias de Atucha y Sarasa, Ren\u00e9 Sergant signature\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Familias de Atucha y Sarasa\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201212A13.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Familias de Atucha y Sarasa\" width=\"450\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the Atuchas spent time in Buenos Aires, their residence was located near Recoleta Cemetery on chic Avenida Alvear&#8230; just opposite the Palacio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=3025\">Ortiz Basualdo<\/a>. Sold long ago, the house was divided into several apartments &amp; contains one of the few faux, painted fa\u00e7ades in Buenos Aires &amp; is easily visible from busy Avenida 9 de Julio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Buenos Aires, Retiro, Palacio Atucha\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201212D02.jpg\" alt=\"Buenos Aires, Retiro, Palacio Atucha\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Buenos Aires, Retiro, Palacio Atucha\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201212A01.jpg\" alt=\"Buenos Aires, Retiro, Palacio Atucha\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imposing but built on one of the more narrow paths of the cemetery, the mausoleum for the Familias de Francisco de Atucha y Azcu\u00e9naga y&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=4023\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">486. familias de atucha y sarasa<\/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],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-4023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-architecture","tag-stained-glass","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023","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=4023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7254,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023\/revisions\/7254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}