Private Tour Discovering Evita and the Peronism in Buenos Aires

Overview

Relive the story of Eva Duarte de Perón — a political leader who fought for Argentina's most disadvantaged — with visits to Plaza de Mayo, the Casa Rosada balcony, her monument, and her tomb at Recoleta Cemetery.

Ideal for travelers interested in 20th-century Argentine political history, this private tour follows Eva Perón's real life and the Peronist movement led by her husband, from the presidential balcony to her final resting place.

Highlights

• Plaza de Mayo See where crowds of workers once gathered to hear Evita speak.
• Casa Rosada balcony View the famous balcony from which Evita addressed the nation.
• Evita's monument and museum Visit her monument and learn her story in greater depth at the Evita Museum.
• Recoleta Cemetery See her mausoleum and hear the remarkable story of what happened to her body after her death.

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About This Tour

Relive the story of Eva Duarte de Perón — a political leader who fought for Argentina's most disadvantaged — with visits to Plaza de Mayo, the Casa Rosada balcony, her monument, and her tomb at Recoleta Cemetery. Ideal for travelers interested in 20th-century Argentine political history, this private tour follows Eva Perón's real life and the Peronist movement led by her husband, from the presidential balcony to her final resting place.

Eva Duarte was born in the small town of Los Toldos in 1919, one of five children born outside of marriage to her father, a factor that marked her early life with a degree of social stigma common in rural Argentina at the time. She moved to Buenos Aires at around 15 to pursue an acting career, working in radio and film through the early 1940s before meeting army colonel Juan Domingo Perón in January 1944; they married the following year, and when Perón won the presidency in 1946, Eva — now Eva Perón, or simply 'Evita' to most Argentines — became a political figure in her own right rather than a conventional first lady.

From the Casa Rosada balcony overlooking Plaza de Mayo, she addressed the crowds of Peronist supporters she called 'los descamisados' (the shirtless ones), and through the Eva Perón Foundation, established in 1948, she channeled public and union funds into hospitals, schools, orphanages, and homes for the elderly on a scale that reshaped Argentina's welfare system. She also campaigned actively for women's suffrage, which Congress passed into law in September 1947 — a law still popularly referred to in Argentina as the 'Ley Evita.' Historians continue to debate how much of this program reflected genuine social reform versus a deliberate strategy to consolidate Peronist political loyalty, and Argentines themselves remain divided on her legacy to this day; what's not disputed is the scale of her personal following and the depth of grief at her death.

Eva Perón died of cervical cancer on 26 July 1952 at just 33, and what happened to her body afterward is one of the stranger postscripts in 20th-century political history. Embalmed by Spanish pathologist Dr. Pedro Ara to preserve her image, her remains were displayed publicly for nearly two years until the military coup that overthrew Perón in 1955, after which the new government had the body secretly removed and eventually buried under a false name in a cemetery outside Milan, Italy, to prevent it from becoming a Peronist rallying point. It was located and exhumed in 1971, held by Juan Perón in Spain for a time, and finally interred in 1976 in the Duarte family crypt at Recoleta Cemetery — reportedly fortified and buried several meters underground given its history — where it remains the cemetery's most-visited tomb today.