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| This long since gone piece of street art Buenos Aires was on the corner of Tacuari and Mexico |
San Pedro de Telmo is the name of the local church here, found on the corner of Balcarce and Humberto Primo.
Neighbourhoods were generally named after the church (Recoleta was originally named Pilar), a beautiful yellow building with lots of churchy bits all over it, and it sports a colourful mural on the adjacent wall of the next-door schoolyard playground.
Once the aristocratic neighbourhood of many wealthy Europeans, San Telmo is now known as the bohemian quarter, chocker-block filled with some great grafitti, markets and exquisitly decayed mansions.
The nearby Parque Lezama was originally owned by the Horne family of England, this old family made their fortune in the people moving business, not the usual demengagement of neighbourhoods like the photo
Neighbourhoods were generally named after the church (Recoleta was originally named Pilar), a beautiful yellow building with lots of churchy bits all over it, and it sports a colourful mural on the adjacent wall of the next-door schoolyard playground.
Once the aristocratic neighbourhood of many wealthy Europeans, San Telmo is now known as the bohemian quarter, chocker-block filled with some great grafitti, markets and exquisitly decayed mansions.
The nearby Parque Lezama was originally owned by the Horne family of England, this old family made their fortune in the people moving business, not the usual demengagement of neighbourhoods like the photo
but more of an international affair, using the traditional routes of the previous centuries, such as below. To be continued...
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