The the oldest cemetery in Buenos Aires (1822) is world famous and is the pride of the city’s living and dead.The ominous gates, Doric-columned portico, and labyrinthine paths may leave you with a sense of foreboding. The final resting place for the nation's most illustrious figures is a virtual city of the dead covering 13½ acres that are rumored to be the most expensive real estate in town.