Cemetery where Maradona was buried will become ‘tourist spot’ – Sports

Just like the life of the Argentine icon, the turbulence should arise in the Jardim da Paz cemetery, previously quiet and on the outskirts of Buenos Aires

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• • Soccer
    

  • Catarina Hong, Record TV special envoy to Buenos Aires, and Eugenio Goussinsky, from R7

• 28/11/2020 – 02h00
  

From a private and remote place, so that the dead can rest amid the silence only broken by the birdsong, the Jardim da Paz cemetery, in the neighborhood of Bella Vista, has everything to become a place of great visitation.

There, the body of the idol Maradona, who died on the 25th due to cardiopulmonary arrest, was buried on Thursday (26). So, like the life of the Argentinean icon, the turbulence must arise.

With Maradona buried, it is very likely that the Jardim de Bella Vista will become one of the most popular places for those who wish to pay homage to Maradona. The same is already happening, for example, in the Recoleta cemetery, where the eternal first lady and political leader of the Argentine Evita Perón is buried. Unlike the cemetery in Recoleta, however, the place where Maradona will rest is private.

Located on the west side, already on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, the place, where the bodies of Diego’s mother and father are also buried, has everything to become as or more visited than the Morumbi Cemetery, in São Paulo, which annually receives a legion of visitors to pay tribute to the pilot Ayrton Senna, who died on May 1, 1994. The date of death is the most visited day of the year.

The tendency is for the cemetery to be structured to receive visitors, according to the local administration. In Argentina, Maradona has come to be considered a popular heritage and the population sees itself practically with the same right of family members to have access to the tomb of the idol.

With an area of ​​13 hectares, under a wide carpet of grass, the cemetery could well house several soccer fields. This is so that the great idol Maradona, and his entire history, can thus rest more at ease, in his last home.

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