San Nicolás, Buenos Aires

San Nicolás is a district in the east of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. He has 33 305 inhabitants (as of 2001) on an area of 2.4 km ². The population density thus corresponds to 13,877 inhabitants per km ². The district is part of the Comuna C1.

Description

San Nicolás part of the business center of Buenos Aires. Here and in the neighboring Montserrat to find most of the government buildings in the city and the country, including the Palace of Justice. San Nicolás is also the financial center of Buenos Aires. It therefore usually speaks of El Centro. The portion east of Avenida 9 de Julio is called Micro Centro.

San Nicolás is bounded by the streets Avenida Córdoba, Avenida Callao, Avenida Rivadavia, Av. La Rabida Norte and Av. Eduardo Madero.

History

The district takes its name from the church of San Nicolás, which was inaugurated in 1773 and 1936, demolished when construction began on the Avenida 9 de Julio. At the former site of the church today is the obelisk.

1794 the British consulate was opened in the course of which many Britons settled in San Nicolás, which was then known as " English quarter ". 1810 Society of British merchants was founded in 1822 and the consulate also the seat of the first modern bank in Buenos Aires.

1802, made ​​possible by the increasing prosperity during the Viceroyalty, built merchants from Buenos Aires to " Boneo Pier ", the main berth of the city was rapid.

Due to the close economic relations with the British Empire in 1830 donated the then Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas land for the Anglican church "St. John ". Today it is the oldest Anglican church in the city. A growing community of U.S. immigrants built in 1836 near the Methodist Church.

The increasing importance of San Nicolás as a financial center was highlighted by the opening of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange in 1854. Today it also houses the Argentine Central Bank and the largest bank in Argentina, Banco de la Nacion. Of the natives of this part of San Nicolás is also called Micro Centro.

1857 is also the first station in Latin America was opened in San Nicolás, opposite the present Teatro Colon. The economic upturn in 1875 led to the installation of the Paseo de Julio (now Avenida Leandro N. Alem ) along the river, where until then were only laundresses operates practice sites of artillery were converted into public parks.

1913, the formerly standard horse trams were replaced by the first metro line in the southern hemisphere. Well-known institutions such as the Teatro Colón, Teatro Ópera and the Teatro Cervantes followed in the 1920s and 1930s numerous other theaters, and later movie theaters, and made San Nicolás to a kind of West End of Buenos Aires.

San Nicolás received its current townscape, as in 1936 to build the first section of Avenida 9 de Julio five city blocks were demolished. It also historical landmarks of the wrecking ball fell victim, including the Mercado del Plata and the San Nicolás church. Popular with tourists today is the pedestrian Florida Street.