Photos: Nighttime Cemetery Tour in Lima, Peru

Posted Dec 11, 2012

A nighttime guided tour at the Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery in Lima, Peru. Guides tell Peru’s history through the tombs of presidents, prelates, poets, potentates and war heroes.

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In this Dec. 6, 2012 photo, a performer dramatizes a historic event during a nighttime guided tour at the Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery in Lima, Peru. Guides tell Peru's history through the tombs of presidents, prelates, poets, potentates and war heroes. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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In this Nov. 10, 2012 photo, a couple holds hands as they take a nighttime guided tour through the Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery in Lima, Peru. Visitors to the 54-acre cemetery just 20 blocks from Lima's presidential palace, one of Latin America's oldest, are treated to tales about the people buried here in a three-hour, nighttime guided tour run by its owner, Beneficiencia de Lima (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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In this Nov. 10, 2012 photo, a leafless tree stands in the Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery as a man walks by during a nighttime guided tour in Lima, Peru. Visitors to the 54-acre cemetery just 20 blocks from Lima's presidential palace, one of Latin America's oldest, are treated to tales about the people buried here in a three-hour, nighttime guided tour run by its owner, Beneficiencia de Lima. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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In this Dec. 6, 2012 photo, a girl poses for the picture next to a tomb sculpture as she takes a nighttime guided tour through the Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery in Lima, Peru. Guides tell Peru's history through the tombs of presidents, prelates, poets, potentates and war heroes. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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In this Sept. 20, 2012 photo, a girl poses for the picture on a tomb during a nighttime guided tour through the Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery in Lima, Peru. Visitors to the 54-acre cemetery just 20 blocks from Lima's presidential palace, one of Latin America's oldest, are treated to tales about the people buried here in a three-hour, nighttime guided tour run by its owner, Beneficiencia de Lima (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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In this Dec. 6, 2012 photo, people use a flashlight as they take a nighttime guided tour through the Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery in Lima, Peru. There are tombs of popular saints the Vatican doesn't recognize. The most popular is Ricardo Espiell, a child who died 119 years ago at age six after supposedly performing miracles. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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In this Dec. 6, 2012 photo, people take a nighttime guided tour through the Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery in Lima, Peru. There are no more burials anymore, unless a family owns a mausoleum. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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In this Nov.10, 2012 photo, a woman dramatizes a historic event during a nighttime guided tour through the Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery in Lima, Peru. When Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery in Lima received its first body in 1808, the best plots went to the elite, unless the noble had been dishonored or disgraced. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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In this Dec. 6, 2012 photo, a couple poses for the picture in front of niches as they take the nighttime guided tour at the Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery in Lima, Peru. Guides tell Peru's history through the tombs of presidents, prelates, poets, potentates and war heroes. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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In this Nov.10, 2012 photo, a cross stands in the Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery during a nighttime guided tour in Lima, Peru. The cemetery, created by one of the last Spanish viceroys, was established the outside the walls of old Lima. There are no more burials anymore at the cemetery unless a family owns a mausoleum. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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In this Dec. 6, 2012 photo, people take a nighttime guided tour through the Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery in Lima, Peru. The cemetery, created by one of the last Spanish viceroys, was established the outside the walls of old Lima. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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In this Sept. 20, 2012 photo, a performer dramatizes a historic event during a nighttime guided tour through the Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery in Lima, Peru. Visitors to the 54-acre cemetery just 20 blocks from Lima's presidential palace, one of Latin America's oldest, are treated to tales about the people buried here in a three-hour, nighttime guided tour run by its owner, Beneficiencia de Lima (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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In this Dec. 6, 2012 photo, a woman examines niches with a flashlight as she takes a nighttime guided tour through the Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery in Lima, Peru. There are no more burials anymore, unless a family owns a mausoleum. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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In this Nov.10, 2012 photo, private security guards watch visitors take a nighttime guided tour through the Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery in Lima, Peru. The cemetery, created by one of the last Spanish viceroys, was established the outside the walls of old Lima. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)