Avellaneda Park

The Parque Avellaneda is a public park in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires. It is located in the homonymous district of Parque Avellaneda, who was named after the park.

Overview

1755 a plot of land about five kilometers west of Buenos Aires was sent to a Catholic order, who built an orphanage and a medicinal plant plantation there. This plantation was acquired in 1828 by Domingo Olivera there einrichtete the first independent research laboratory for agriculture in Argentina. His son, Eduardo was a graduate farmer and one of the founding members of the Sociedad Rural Argentina and organizer of the first agricultural fair in Argentina 1866.

The Olivera family sold the property in 1912 to the city of Buenos Aires and was under the direction of Carlos Thays in 1914 there is the Parque Olivera opened. In the same year the park was renamed in honor of former President Nicolás Avellaneda in Parque Avellaneda. At the time of opening of the park with its 50 acres was the largest continuous green space in Buenos Aires. 1916 there a nursery was opened to meet the demand for tree seedlings in the city. Opened in 1925 the educator Antonio Zaccagnini a school for disabled children at the east end of the park and in 1930 the park train to the zoo was moved to the Parque Avellaneda.

The extension of Avenida Francisco Bilbao in the 1950s separated from an eight -acre piece in the south of the park, which was then repurposed for a power company. The biggest change in the appearance of the park, however, was caused by an expropriation along Avenida Bilbao, where the Perito Moreno expressway was built. Opened in 1980, the highway takes up the largest part of what is previously been the southern part of the park. This development and the economic crisis in the 1980s contributed to the decline of the park. Only in 1989 it went up again when the villa Olivera was opened after years of vacancy again as a cultural center. In 1996, a descendant of the family Olivera, Enrique Olivera, Vice - Mayor of Buenos Aires and as such initiated projects to restore the park. So in July 2000, the railway were reopened and inaugurated the " medicinal plants farm - cultural center", a tribute to the origins of the park.