Ever since the late 1800’s Recoleta has been Buenos Aires’ residential and touristic neighborhood of choice; home to private family mansions, foreign embassies, and luxury hotels.  Back in 1879 when Buenos Aires suffered a terrible cholera and yellow fever epidemics, the population of the city spread out to avoid the contagion. The underprivileged classes settled in the south-southwest of the city, while the wealthy families settled in the Recoleta area, where the height of the terrain reduced the…