San Telmo (Buenos Aires)

San Telmo is a neighborhood in the southeast of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. The district has 25 969 inhabitants in an area of 1.3 km ² (as of 2001). The population density thus corresponds to 19,976 inhabitants per square km, which is above the average of Buenos Aires, which is approximately 13,500 inhabitants / km ². From 1991 to 2001, the population decreased by almost eight percent.

San Telmo is assigned to the " Sur ", the south of the city, which is regarded as the founding core of Buenos Aires. The area lies on the connecting line between the former port of La Boca and the historic city center, the area of ​​today's Micro Centro, and was created by the establishment of numerous dealers in this important route.

Description

San Telmo is architecturally heavily influenced by old buildings from the 19th century. New buildings, especially from the second half of the 20th century, the other parts of the city as strongly marked, for example, Palermo, find here rare, since a large part of the district is a protected monument.

After a period of economic decline is San Telmo has developed since the mid- 1990s, becoming a tourist-oriented neighborhood in which are, inter alia, numerous restaurants with daily tango shows specifically for tourist audiences. In the centrally located in the district of Plaza Dorrego every Sunday antiques market, the Feria de San Pedro Telmo, instead. Additional points of interest include the Parque Lezama, the Museo de Arte Moderno, the National Museum of History of Argentina and Casa Esteban de Luca, the former home of the poet of the first national anthem, which is now protected as a Historic Monument.

While San Telmo comes up even as many inner-city neighborhoods of Buenos Aires with little green space, it is bordered on the east by the Ecological Reserve, the largest contiguous green space in the city.

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