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Argentines offered chance to buy final resting place next to Eva Peron

Argentines are being offered the chance to secure a final resting place next to the tomb of Eva Peron – if they have nearly £200,000 to spare.

Potential buyers can look forward to the prospect of up to 20 family members being interred in the mausoleum next to the black marbled monument which houses her remains.

Despite broken marble interiors and swarms of insects nearby, Damian Sabelli is asking Argentine patriots to pay ten times the amount that a tomb of similar size would normally fetch.

Peron, the second wife of President Juan Domingo Peron and better known as Evita, created a foundation which built hospitals, schools and orphanages in poor areas and remains a national heroine nearly 60 years after her death.

Around 700,000 visitors a year visit Recoleta cemetery in Buenos Aires, where her tomb is located, many of them international tourists and Argentines wanting to pay their respects to her....

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)