Flores (Buenos Aires)
Flores is a district in the center of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. He has more than 150,000 inhabitants (as of 2001) on an area of 8.1 km ². Flores belongs since 1888 to Buenos Aires and is now a quarter of the middle class.
Location
Flores is through the streets Portela, Cuenca, Av. Gaona Av. Donato Alvarez, Curapaligüe, Av. Directorio, Av. Carabobo, Av. Castañares, Torres y Tenorio, Av. Riestra, Av. Perito Moreno, Av. Castañares, Lacarra and Av. Luis J. Dellepiane limited.
History
Before Flores was incorporated, then known as San José de Flores, the place to rich city dwellers was popular, which maintained country houses there. Today, some of these houses still exist, including that of Juan Manuel de Rosas, who was governor of the province of Buenos Aires around 1900.
Other famous residents included the architect Antonio Marcó del Pont, a descendant of the former Spanish governor of Chile. He bought a plot of land opposite the train station of Flores and was built in 1860 on a villa in the Italian style. After her departure in 1929, the family sold the property and the house fell into disrepair. It was already determined to be demolished, as the Junta de Estudios de San José de Flores Historical ( Historical Society of San José de Flores ) attention was drawn to the house. In 1978 the house became the ' Monumento Histórico Nacional ' ( National Historic Site) explains and restored. Today, there the Casa de la Cultura de Flores ( Cultural Center ) is located.
The commercial center of the district is located to the train station and the Avenida Rivadavia around. There is also the church Basilica de San José de Flores, which was inaugurated in 1883.
Among the personalities who were born in the district or lived there, were next to Jorge Mario Bergoglio ( later Pope Francis ), the writer Roberto Arlt and Baldomero Fernández Moreno.
A fictional mythology of Flores comes from the author Alejandro Dolina. It bears the title Crónicas del Ángel Gris ( Chronicles of the gray Engels). In the novel The nights of Flores ( 2004) by César Aira, the situation of the people of Flores is portrayed around the turn of the millennium. A famous tango, San José de Flores is from the concerns of a man who returns to the barrio after a long absence.
The Pueyrredón Theatre was a famous dance hall, where the tango singer Edmundo Rivero became famous in the 1930s and was often used by Argentine rock bands like Almendra for performances.
2004 excavations in the Plaza Pueyrredón, usually under the name Plaza Flores known undertaken. Besides, numerous everyday objects were found from the 19th century. Some of these objects is shown in the district town hall in the Culpina Street / Avenida Rivadavia.
Novel
- César Aira: The Nights of Flores (Spanish: Las noches de Flores, 2004), Claassen Verlag, Berlin 2009 ISBN 978-3-546-00445-9