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Its
limits: La Plata avenue and Rio de Janeiro street (western)
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- Independencia
avenue (south)
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- Sánchez de
Bustamante street, Díaz Vélez avenue and Gallo street (east)
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- Cordoba avenue, Estado de Israel
avenue and Angel Gallardo avenue (north).
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- Its name does
not enclose a lot of mystery, but some authors discuss their
origin. Exist those who support the version that it is due to his
primitive owners, children of the Dr. Juan María Almagro and De la
Torre, who was an official of the Viceroyalty of Buenos Aires.
Others suppose that the neighborhood belonged to Toribio Almagro
who in 1857 gifted it to the Company of Railroads to install a
passengers railway station; that was located in the corner of
Lezica and Angel Peluffo passage.
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- Approximately
until 1870 the neighborhood was well rural and with colored trees.
Then it become famous for the families that inhabited it. The
families were: Villarino (that occupied the square of San José of
Calazans Church), Ballesteros, the Pereyra, the Muñiz, famous for
its parties, where the high society concurred.
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- Their lands
were plains, with some streams, but they were historical houses as
the legendary house of Santiago de Liniers and Bremond, situated
in Hipólito Yrigoyen and Virrey Liniers, known as the Window of
Lange.
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- Like in all
the neighborhoods the limits were changing as soon as the city
advanced. The limit was given by San Jose de Flores neighborhood.
Even in 1870, with the increase of the population and the
progressive growth of communications Mr. Florencio Madero, intend
to sell the lands of the new town of Almagro. Once they were sold
a transformation was produced due to the inmigration that took
place between the years 1895 to 1914.
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The
tenement houses (Los Conventillos)
- At first the
majority of the people of Almagro were of Basque origin, due to
the presence of dairys in the place. Then such situation was
reverted and the Italian population dominated, who were in charge
of the bricklaying.
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- In the years
1880, 1898 and 1912, the tenement houses that occupied the
neighborhood could be counted. The Licensed Llanes found the most
important of them situated in: the corner of Boedo and
Independencia, nowadays a bank is situated there, another one in
Castro Barros 433 “María the Lunga”, another that was called “The
Black cave” inhabited by color people, and there was another one
In the corner of Victoria and Liniers inhabited by Andalusian
families.
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- The
tango in the Neighborhood
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- The
neighborhood has a rich history of tangos, tangueros and famous
personalities of the environment of the epoch. There men
like Carlos Gardel grew, Alfonsina Estorni (poet), Juan Maglio (in
Bulnes and Tucumán), Luisito Pérez, Luis C.
Villamayor (author of “The language of the low fund”), Osmar
Maderna, “The Cachafaz” and “The Blond Mireya” (tenement house of
Castro Barros 433), Sebastián Piana (born Castro Barros street)
and Osvaldo Pugliese who prompted the project to create the House
of the Tango.
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- Almagro is
very extensive, but has only one park that has the Monument to the
Flag built by the architect Alejandro Varangot, it is there where
it is yielded homage to Vicente
San Lorenzo, who gave music to the tango “Almagro” (Salguero,
Sarmiento, Bulnes and Perón), with letter of August Martin,
composed in 1930. Gardel consecrated it with its phonographic
version on May the 1st of 1930.
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“How
I remembered, loved neighborhood,
- those
times of my childhood….
- You are
the place where I have born
- And you
are the cradle of my
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Neighborhood of the soul, it was by your streets
- where I
have enjoyed my youth.
- with
tender eagerness I dreamed,
- Among all the
leaders of the neighborhood, the one that was more emphasized was
Aparicio, for being the one that more electoral triumphs had.
Because of that the musician (“bandoneonista”) Domingo Santa Cruz
dedicated him the song “Civic Union”.
- We cannot
stop citing a Coffee Store that represents a lot of our
Argentinean history: The Violetas Coffee Store, founded in 1884.
- The French
orphanage of the parish San Carlos contained a land(Rivadavia
3824) that is remembered for a particularly fact: in 1912 Carlos
Gardel sang a tango. In their workshops studied together Ceferino
Namuncurá and Carlos Gardel(“The Thrush”).
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“Almagro,
Almagro of my life,
- you were
the soul of my dreams...
- How many
nights of moon and faith,
- under
your protection I knew to love…
- Almagro,
glory of the braves,
- place of
romances and poetry,
- my head
the snow covered,
- my
happiness has already gone
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- The San
Lorenzo of Almagro Club was born in the 1st of April of
1908. At the beginning it was located in the neighborhood,
nowadays it functions in the Nueva Pompeya neighborhood.
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- In Guardia
Vieja 4049 functions the House of the Tango Foundation. There you
can visit the library, the museum and it has also a coffee store
where you can dance, like in the Educational Center of the Tango
(University of the Tango) located in Agrelo 3231 too. Another
company dedicated to our tango is the Argentine Union of Musicians
“Astor Piazzolla” (Av. Belgrano 3655).
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In
the neighborhood was located the famous school Mariano Moreno
between the streets Rivadavia, Sadi Carnot (actually Mario Bravo),
Billinghurst and Bartolomé Mitre. Students like Eduardo of
Robertis, Alberto Vacarezza, Homero Manzi, Luis Sandrini, among
others studied there.
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- “The
ungrateful time double my back
- and to
my smile coldness gave…
- with
many doubts and loneness.
- My
Almagro, all has passed,
- ashes
of what I was still remains…
- of your
love without end,
- as a
memory of my passion.”
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