The Abasto Shopping is one of the biggest shopping mall centers in Buenos Aires , Argentina . The building was the central wholesale fruit and vegetable market in the city ("Mercado de Abasto") from 1893 to 1984. Since 1999, it has served as a shopping mall. It is also famous for being in the area where the tango singer Carlos Gardel , known as El Morocho del Abasto ("the dark-haired guy from Abasto"), lived for most of his life. Today, the surrounding area, though part of the Balvanera neighbourhood , is sometimes referred to as Abasto .
19-559: The Centro Cultural Recoleta (English: Recoleta Cultural Centre ) is an exhibition and cultural events centre located in the barrio of Recoleta , Buenos Aires , Argentina . It holds sculptures and exhibitions, as well as concerts and artistic presentations and workshops of diverse types. in September/October 2006 it held the wildly successful onedotzero festival attracting over 20,000 people in 3 days for installations, live performances, screenings and music. The building where
38-418: Is sometimes invoked (informally) to support the claim that there are indeed a hundred neighbourhoods in the city. This number may be reached by including some suburbs in the tally. Abasto de Buenos Aires The Abasto Shopping centre is served by the adjoining underground station Carlos Gardel of line B metro (subte). By the end of the 19th century, the city of Buenos Aires was expanding rapidly due to
57-419: Is the area around Congress square , encompassing southeastern Balvanera, northern San Cristóbal and western Monserrat . Catalinas Norte is the high-rise district next to Retiro transportation center and to the financial district, while Catalinas Sur is used (quite rarely) for the lowlands south of San Telmo (notably the area around Cosme Argerich hospital and at the bottom of Parque Lezama). Palermo
76-648: Is the largest barrio by area and has several informal subdivisions; Palermo Viejo is the name usually given to the area between Coronel Díaz, Córdoba, Scalabrini Ortíz and Güemes; Palermo Chico and Barrio Parque , the most upmarket part of Palermo, is on Palermo's north-eastern edge, includes the National Museum of Decorative Arts and the Museum of Latin American Art , and many of the wealthy and famous old homes some now used as Ambassador's residences; Palermo Soho ,
95-488: Is used sometimes to refer to the parts of Villa Crespo close to Palermo Viejo. Other than Palermo Viejo and Palermo Chico, these names are of recent vintage (1990s and later) and are related to the gentrification process that Palermo and its peripheral areas are undergoing. Parque Centenario is sometimes used to refer to the area around Centenario park, at the limit of Almagro, Caballito, and Villa Crespo. The southern parts of Flores were reclaimed from swampland, and
114-457: The building was planned as a cultural centre. 34°35′11″S 58°23′32″W / 34.58639°S 58.39222°W / -34.58639; -58.39222 Barrios of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires , the autonomous city and capital of Argentina , is composed of 48 neighbourhoods (locally known as barrios ). Since 2008, the city is also legally divided into communes ( comunas ), each one including one or more barrios . Among
133-481: The city's fashion district, refers to Plaza Julio Cortázar and its surroundings; Palermo Hollywood is a distinctive quarter located in the northern edge of the barrio where radio and television stations, movie producers and workshops have settled in the late 1990s. Las Cañitas refers to a few blocks around the Campo Argentino de Polo , crowded with trendy bars, fancy restaurants and nightclubs. Palermo Queens
152-499: The corresponding population and the commune they are grouped in. The name Barrio Norte refers to the area around Avenida Santa Fe , encompassing parts of Retiro , Recoleta , and Palermo . The name Barrio Sur was used in the past to encompass the southern neighbourhoods. This name has mostly fallen out of use, but survives in the lyrics of the tango Sur , which refer to specific places in Nueva Pompeya and Boedo , and in
171-524: The cultural centre is located was originally donated to the Franciscans in 1716. The blueprints of the construction were drawn by Jesuit architects Juan Krauss and Juan Wolf, while the design of the façade and interiors are attributed to Andrés Blanqui. The building, finished in 1732, is one of the oldest in the city. With the arrival of the May Revolution and the declaration of independence during
190-507: The first part of the 19th century, the building changed purposes. Manuel Belgrano founded a drawing school there, and since the 1870s it served as a shelter for the destitute. Torcuato de Alvear , first mayor of Buenos Aires, beautified Recoleta as well as the cultural centre; Juan Antonio Buschiazzo gave it an Italian style and created the chapel currently used as an auditorium. The second important renovation took place around 1980 by Clorindo Testa , Jacques Bedel and Luis Benedit , when
209-492: The first section was inaugurated on April 1 of 1893, with a covered area of 1,300 m². Ten years later a refrigerated storage and an ice factory were opened, to satisfy the city's hygiene standards of the times. Since the population, and with it consumer demand, was steadily growing, it was necessary to construct a parking area for horses and vehicles. In 1928 an annex for retail sale was built between Guardia Vieja, Lavalle, Gallo and Bustamante streets. Consumer demand again led to
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#1732886867107228-736: The influx of migrants from various European countries. Because of the demographic change, and the demolition of the Mercado Modelo market near the Plaza Lorea , the Devoto brothers on August 16, 1888, proposed the construction of a supply market on the land they acquired in 1875 in the Balvanera neighbourhood. The land was near the Sarmiento railway and halfway between La Boca and Olivos , two zones of fruit and vegetable production. The town hall accepted
247-465: The most visited and populated barrios are Palermo , Recoleta , Puerto Madero , Belgrano , San Telmo , La Boca , Monserrat and Caballito . Sectors of the city are also traditionally known as neighbourhoods by the inhabitants of Buenos Aires, but not officially by the authorities of the city; some examples include Barrio Chino , Barrio Norte and the Microcentro . In alphabetical order, with
266-492: The names Bajo Flores and Bañado de Flores are used for these areas. Within Belgrano , there are Belgrano "C" and "R" (widely and incorrectly believed to signify "commercial" and "residential", respectively) and Bajo Belgrano ("Belgrano lowlands"), which since the late 1990s includes a small Chinatown . A tango song named "Cien barrios porteños" ( transl. The 100 barrios of Buenos Aires ), sung by Alberto Castillo ,
285-452: The overcrowding of the markets of the city, so architects José Luis Delpini, Viktor Sulčič and Raúl Bes designed a new market in the location of the Abasto market. Work started on December 28 of 1931 with the foundations and finished in 1934. The new Mercado de Abasto had an area of 44,000 m (473,612 sq ft), railway access and underground parking. In 1939, the sale of meat and fish
304-568: The proposal on November 29 of that year, and passed it on to the Deliberating Council, who sanctioned it on January 8, 1889, in an ordinance approving the construction of the Mercado Central de Abasto ("Central Supply Market") on the 25,000 m² plot of land between Corrientes Avenue , Lavalle, Anchorena and Laprida streets. The municipality allowed the Abasto market to become wholesalers of fruit, vegetables and other foodstuffs, but forbade
323-570: The sale of meat. The old marketeers of the Mercado Modelo associated and founded in 1889 the Sociedad Anónima Mercado de Abasto Proveedor ("Market Supply Provider Anonymous Society"), which bought from the Devoto brothers the land and the concession to build the Mercado de Abasto. The construction of the building started shortly after the sale had been approved by mayor Francisco Seeber , and
342-498: The short story " The South " by Jorge Luis Borges , where the conventional wisdom is recalled that "the South begins when crossing Rivadavia Avenue ". Abasto is sometimes used to refer to the zone around the Abasto market (now a shopping mall), many times in association with the life of singer Carlos Gardel . It encompasses north-western Balvanera and north-eastern Almagro . Congreso
361-416: Was allowed. On October 14, 1984, the central market was moved to the present Mercado Central , location, outside the city of Buenos Aires, and the Abasto of Buenos Aires was closed and left abandoned. It was not until the mid-1990s that a project was proposed for turning the Abasto into a shopping mall. In 1996 the building was sold to " Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima " (IRSA), which restored
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