Luz María, daughter of the playwright Enrique García Velloso, died from leukemia at the age of 15 in 1925. Her mother, on the verge of madness, got special permission to stay overnight in a corner of the crypt in Recoleta Cemetery. One night, a young high society gentleman saw a girl dressed all in white crying in the street behind the cemetery. He approached her, put his jacket over her shoulders and, fascinated by her beauty, invited her for a coffee at a cafe called La Veredita, now La Biela.

In the cafe, they kissed and the girl said her name was Luz María. Then suddenly, saying that it was late, she jumped up, spilling coffee on the jacket the young man had given her, and fled, The man ran after her, but her figure seemed to disappear at the entrance to cemetery. Desperate, the young man began banging on the gate of the cemetery until the caretaker let him in. And there, in the first street inside, he found something unimaginable: a crypt bearing the name Luz María, and over a marble figure with the face of the girl he had comforted, and over the lying sculpture, his jacked stained with coffee.

Visit: Recoleta Cemetery (Junín 1760). La Biela (Av. Presidente Quintana 600).