{"id":4221,"date":"2013-05-20T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=4221"},"modified":"2021-08-15T20:23:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T18:23:19","slug":"502-juan-berisso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=4221","title":{"rendered":"502. juan berisso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200802C02.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Berisso\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Between 1869 &amp; 1871, Buenos Aires endured two disastrous epidemics: first, <strong>cholera<\/strong>, that left 9,000 dead &amp; second, <strong>yellow fever<\/strong>, which claimed 14,000 victims. The city government put into practice new sanitation practices, including the removal of tanneries &amp; slaughterhouses from residential areas. Business owners received big tax breaks if they agreed to relocate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200806B27.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Berisso\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Due to those incentives, <strong>Juan Bautista Berisso\u00a0<\/strong>&#8212;an Genovese immigrant born in 1834&#8212; purchased 28 hectares in Ensenada, near the future location of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=609\">La Plata<\/a>. He established a successful tannery &amp; in following years acquired a distillery, a vegetable oil factory, dock facilities &amp; a number of cattle ranches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200802C04.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Berisso\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Berisso passed away in 1893 &amp; is buried in an extraordinary family plot rarely seen by tourists because of its somewhat hidden location. Beautiful works by Italian sculptor <strong>Alessandro Biggi<\/strong> decorate the mausoleum, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=233\">Chronos (Father Time)<\/a> on the left, a female angel with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=91\">anchor<\/a> on the right &amp; two lions guarding the entrance:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201304Fxx.jpg\" alt=\"Buenos Aires, Recoleta Cemetery, Berisso\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200806B25.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Berisso\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/20072610Mar.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Berisso\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In La Plata, another branch of the Berisso family built the largest mausoleum in the cemetery, currently abandoned:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/02082006Mar.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Berisso\" width=\"auto\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 1869 &amp; 1871, Buenos Aires endured two disastrous epidemics: first, cholera, that left 9,000 dead &amp; second, yellow fever, which claimed 14,000 victims. The&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=4221\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">502. juan berisso<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-architecture","category-business","category-vistas","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6508,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions\/6508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}