Balvanera Neighborhood

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Neighborhood | Balvanera

Balvanera Neighborhood
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Its Limits: Entre Rios avenue, Callao avenue, Snchez de Bustamante street,Loria street, Corrientes avenue, Cordoba avenue, Pueyrredon avenue andRivadavia avenue.

Important places: Once, Abasto and Congreso

When the city of Buenos Aires joined the Congreso neighborhood, theAbasto neighborhood and the Once neighborhood, it was to unite thosecentral neighborhoods in only one, that would be called as the same asthe Nuestra Seora de Balvanera (Our Lady of Balvanera) parish ,located in 2431 Bartolom Mitre street.

The neighborhood, is usually traveled over for any tourist; Corrientes

avenue, Florida street, Mayo avenue are significant for the city for being themost picturesque.

We can find universities, shoppings mall, parks, and obviously the history ofthe most important tango protagonists.


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Once

It also exists the other side of Buenos Aires, the most popular, located inPueyrredon avenue, in Plaza Miserere (Miserere Park) or Once. Germinal

Nogues described it better than nobody: Buenos Aires does not have aplace that seems more to Latino America, more to any Latino American city,that those few blocks that surround the Miserere Park...

In Once, different transports flow (train, subway and bus lines) that make ita concurred place, besides being one of the most important wholesaleshopping center.

The Plaza de los Dos Congresos (The two Congresses Park) and thePlaza Once (Eleven Park) are the representatives of the neighborhood,and generally is common to call all the zone as Congress Neighborhood orEleven Neighborhood, but in the official nomenclature they are notseparated.

In the Park center is found the Bernardino Rivadavia mausoleum, declaredin 1946, National Historic Monument.

The park is a transit place for workers, to there arrives the line A subwayand the Sarmiento railroad.

Near the park, is found the famous school Mariano Acosta (1874), wherepeople like Julio Cortazar, Julio Argentino Roca, Leopoldo Marechal, EnriqueSantos Discepolo, among others, studied.

We can remember in Pichincha street the old Doria Theater, with successful

lyric music periods and also the Anselmi circus (1896), wrestlingchampionships, and the most various spectacles billboard. After the DoriaTheater, the Marconi Theater appeared, the majority of its audience wereItalians that also worked in the Spinetto market (actually a shopping). From1970 it was converted in the Armando Discepolo Theater. Close to it, in2330 Rivadavia Avenue, it is found the coffee store that helped Discepolo tocreate the famous tango Cafetin de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires LittleCoffee).


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A long time ago, across the Spinetto, passed the Manso stream, and aproject was summarized in 1894 by David Spineto. Initially, the market, wasdedicated to sell vegetables and fruits, exclusively to wholesalers, and aftera fire, it also included the sold of clothes. Complementary locals alsoexisted: Matheu and Moreno.

The Congress and its outskirts

In the old corner of Rivadavia avenue and Rincon street, still remains theechoes of the Caf de los Angelitos (Angels Coffee), currently it is beingrestored, but time ago it was one of the most recognized Buenos Airescoffees. It attended people like Gardel, Jos Razzano, Gabino Ezeiza and

Jos Bettinotti. In this coffee born the tango that carries its name composedby Castillo and Razzano.

I evoke you, lost in the life,

and entangled in the threads of the smoke,

set against a pleasing memory that I smoke

and to this black cup of coffee.

Rivadavia and Rincn! ... Old corner

of the antique friendship that returns,

flirting its grey on the table that is


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meditating in its yesterday nights.

Angels Coffee!

Gabino and Cazn Bar!

I make you happy with my shouts

in the times of Carlitos

by Rivadavia and Rincn.

Founded, in 1890 with the name Rivadavia Bar, its owner was an Italiancalled Batista Fazio. At first it was a coffee of criminals. In 1919 when itbegan to be famous for the figures of Gabino, Higinio Cazn, Jos Betinotti,

Jos Razzano, Carlos Gardel, Roberto Cassaux, Florencio Parravicini, among

others it was acquired by Angel Salgueiro.

It was exactly in this coffee where, in 1917, the Oden seal artistic director,Mauricio Goddart made an agreement with a native famous duet Gardel-Razzano. In this manner they could be listened in the disk Cantar Eterno(Eternal Sing) and El Sol del 25 (The 25 sun).

According to the daily Pgina 12 (Twelve Page), the Coffee newrestoration:

The new Caf de los Angelitos (Angels Coffee) will not be the same,simply because the old one was demolished in the past December.Therefore, the businessmen that bought the uncultivated land of 600 squaremeters will raise walls of 9 meters height, almost the double one of theoriginal model. It is that the 2002 version of the classical bar will have threelevels, two on the surface and another one subterranean.


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Among the most significant buildings we can find El Molino (The Mill)coffee store of 1860, El Club Ateneo de la Juventud (The Youth LiterarySociety Club) ubicated in 165 Riobamba street.

Luckily the Buenos Aires city has many buildings with history, as these twobars, but unfortunately we suffer from seen them in its decadence. TheMill Coffee Store, located in Callao avenue and Rivadavia avenue,continues being an outstanding account since it continues walled up.

In the house that remains in 137 Rincon street, lived Carlitos Gardel. TheBalvanera neighborhood also knew the summit epoch of the tenementhouses located in the streets next to the Congress (Mexico street, Alsinastreet, Sarandi street).

The Sanitary Works building, located in Cordoba avenue, Riobamba street,Viamonte street and Ayacucho street was built, by the architect CarlosNystrmer, to store 73.000.000 liters of water approximately. With abaroque style, overload of decoration, the building is done with Europeanmaterial.

These are all spaces that form part of the city history and they are very

loved by the people. The neighbors, besides all, remember them with a lotof affection. We hope that, these buildings, monuments, parks, will continueconserving as time ago, or in any case that they would be recovered.

Marinha Villalobos

Alejandro Cigliano

Homage |Neighborhood of Tango: Almagro


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Its limits: La Plataavenue and Rio de Janeiro street (western)

Independencia avenue (south)

Snchez de Bustamante street, Daz Vlez avenue and Gallo street (east)

Cordoba avenue, Estado de Israel avenue and Angel Gallardo avenue (north).

Its name does not enclose a lot of mystery, but some authors discuss their origin.Exist those who support the version that it is due to his primitive owners, children ofthe Dr. Juan Mara Almagro and De la Torre, who was an official of the Viceroyalty of

Buenos Aires. Others suppose that the neighborhood belonged to Toribio Almagrowho in 1857 gifted it to the Company of Railroads to install a passengers railwaystation; that was located in the corner of Lezica and Angel Peluffo passage.

Approximately until 1870 the neighborhood was well rural and with colored trees.Then it become famous for the families that inhabited it. The families were: Villarino(that occupied the square of San Jos of Calazans Church), Ballesteros, the Pereyra,


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the Muiz, famous for its parties, where the high society concurred.

Their lands were plains, with some streams, but they were historical houses as thelegendary house of Santiago de Liniers and Bremond, situated in Hiplito Yrigoyenand Virrey Liniers, known as the Window of Lange.

Like in all the neighborhoods the limits were changing as soon as the city advanced.The limit was given by San Jose de Flores neighborhood. Even in 1870, with theincrease of the population and the progressive growth of communications Mr.Florencio Madero, intend to sell the lands of the new town of Almagro. Once theywere sold a transformation was produced due to the inmigration that took placebetween the years 1895 to 1914.

The tenement houses (Los Conventillos)

At first the majority of the people of Almagro were of Basque origin, due to thepresence of dairys in the place. Then such situation was reverted and the Italianpopulation dominated, who were in charge of the bricklaying.


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In the years 1880, 1898 and 1912, the tenement houses that occupied theneighborhood could be counted. The Licensed Llanes found the most important ofthem situated in: the corner of Boedo and Independencia, nowadays a bank issituated there, another one in Castro Barros 433 Mara the Lunga, another that wascalled The Black cave inhabited by color people, and there was another one In thecorner of Victoria and Liniers inhabited by Andalusian families.

The tango in the Neighborhood

The neighborhood has a rich history of tangos, tangueros and famous personalities ofthe environment of the epoch. There men like Carlos Gardel grew, Alfonsina Estorni(poet), Juan Maglio (in Bulnes and Tucumn), Luisito Prez, Luis C. Villamayor(author of The language of the low fund), Osmar Maderna, The Cachafaz and TheBlond Mireya (tenement house of Castro Barros 433), Sebastin Piana (born CastroBarros street) and Osvaldo Pugliese who prompted the project to create the House ofthe Tango.

Almagro is very extensive, but has only one park that has the Monument to the Flagbuilt by the architect Alejandro Varangot, it is there where it is yielded homage toVicente San Lorenzo, who gave music to the tango Almagro (Salguero, Sarmiento,Bulnes and Pern), with letter of August Martin, composed in 1930. Gardelconsecrated it with its phonographic version on May the 1st of 1930.


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How I remembered, loved neighborhood,

those times of my childhood.

You are the place where I have born

And you are the cradle of my

honesty.

Neighborhood of the soul, it was by your streets

where I have enjoyed my youth.

Nights of love I lived,

with tender eagerness I dreamed,

and among your flowers

I also cried

Its sad to remember!

The heart hurts me...

My Almagro,

how


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sick I am!

Among all the leaders of the neighborhood, the one that was more emphasized wasAparicio, for being the one that more electoral triumphs had. Because of that themusician (bandoneonista) Domingo Santa Cruz dedicated him the song CivicUnion.

We cannot stop citing a Coffee Store that represents a lot of our Argentinean history:The Violetas Coffee Store, founded in 1884.

The French orphanage of the parish San Carlos contained a land(Rivadavia 3824) thatis remembered for a particularly fact: in 1912 Carlos Gardel sang a tango. In theirworkshops studied together Ceferino Namuncur and Carlos Gardel(The Thrush).

Almagro, Almagro of mylife,

you were the soul of my dreams...


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How many nights of moon and faith,

under your protection I knew to love

Almagro, glory of the braves,

place of romances and poetry,

my head the snow covered,

my happiness has already gone

as a ray of sun.

The San Lorenzo of Almagro Club was born in the 1 st of April of 1908. At thebeginning it was located in the neighborhood, nowadays it functions in the NuevaPompeya neighborhood.

In Guardia Vieja 4049 functions the House of the Tango Foundation. There you canvisit the library, the museum and it has also a coffee store where you can dance, likein the Educational Center of the Tango (University of the Tango) located in Agrelo3231 too. Another company dedicated to our tango is the Argentine Union of

Musicians Astor Piazzolla (Av. Belgrano 3655).


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In the neighborhood was located thefamous school Mariano Moreno between the streets Rivadavia, Sadi Carnot (actuallyMario Bravo), Billinghurst and Bartolom Mitre. Students like Eduardo of Robertis,Alberto Vacarezza, Homero Manzi, Luis Sandrini, among others studied there.

The ungrateful time double my back

and to my smile coldness gave

I am old, I am a load,

with many doubts and loneness.

My Almagro, all has passed,

ashes of what I was still remains

Lover

of your love without end,

where I have born

I should die.


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Almagro, sweet home

I leave you the heart

as a memory of my passion.

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