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San Telmo
It´s one of the oldest
and traditional neighborhoods in the city, called originally Altos de
San Pedro, and then San Pedro Telmo, that has the particularity of having
a quite important historical conservation and a great linking to the
tango. This neighborhood that was one of those more affected by the yellow
fever of 1870, had population's exodus and deterioration that stopped
their growth, for what many new buildings were not added in substitution
of the old ones, like it passed in most of the city. In the last years
a very big revaluation of this neighborhood that brought growth and investments
again, took place but inside a mark of conservation of the historical
patrimony, what took to many recycle tasks. They stand out in this neighborhood
the street Defensa, considered the oldest in Buenos Aires. In this street
is the Plaza Dorrego, declared National Historical Monument, in the one
that the weekends tango shows, mimes and payadores are made. Also in
this area several local of antiques are resided. They stand out the 1734
building of the Church of San Telmo, the Museum of Modern Art, an enormous
building of bricks that before belonged to a tobacco factory, the Market
San Telmo in Carlos Calvo and Bolivar, with an intact architecture of
more than 100 years, the Viejo Almacén, place tanguero par excellence,
besides other so many coffee and pubs that are in the proximities of
the Plaza Dorrego. In an end of the neighborhood it is the Park Lezama,
erected in a difference in the old ravine of the river, considered as
one of the supposed locations of the first foundation that has in their
interior the gratuitous National Museum of History, in the old residence
of the family Lezama, a mirador, an amphitheater and monuments like that
of the International Confraternity donated by the city of Montevideo,
and that of Pedro de Mendoza. In front of the park he/she is the Russian
Orthodox Church, with their typical domes. In this park part of the history
of "Sobre Héroes y Tumbas" of Ernesto Sábato is centered.
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