Description: It is the capital city of the district of San Andrés de Giles in the north-east of the Buenos Aires province. It was an intense agricultural zone. Extent and format of original material:
Description: San Antonio de Areco is one of the districts of the province of Buenos Aires. It was founded in 1730 by José Ruiz de Arellano. The capital city of this territory is the also called San Antonio de Areco that remains as a historical place due to the much admired writer Ricardo Guiralde...
Description: This envelope informs us about San Andrés. This is a locality in northern Great Buenos Aires (Gran Buenos Aires) with a railway station that belonged to the then called Ferrocarril Mitre (Mitre Railways). The name of the locality and the railway station are given by the San Andrés Go...
Description: This envelope informs us about the Argentine writer Ricardo Guiraldes who lived in the rural town and lands of San Antonio de Areco in the province of Buenos Aires. He was the author of the famous Don Segundo Sombra; an emblematic book on the lives of the gauchos second only to the c...
Description: The creation and fostering of soup kitchens (cocinas populares) in Argentina was both a religious, secular, private, and public initiative. It served to the poor inhabitants of the different cities popular dishes of the country. In 1902, the hygienist perspective founded many soup k...
Description: According to the experts, the Carnival of Buenos Aires boomed at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. Carnival troupes and comparsa became so famous that they always counted with a massive participation including the local elite and the authorities. ...
Description: Selling fast food at cheap prices is not an effect of modernisation as its existence may be traced to the beginning of the 20th century. The port of Buenos Aires received delicious meat from the stockbreeder interior of the pampas that was, then, sold at cheap prices. At the same, ...
Description: This Commission was in charge of the Errázuriz Palace that was bought by the Argentine state in 1930s.The palace began to be created in 1910 by the Chilean diplomat Matías Errázuriz and his wife Josefina de Alvear. Its building was interrupted during the First World War due to the s...
Description: This envelope refers to the different cultural institutes of the different ethnic groups that arrived and lived in Argentina. They founded their religious temples, their economic and commercial activities, and, of course, their cultural institutes to disseminate their activities and ...
Description: Between 1850 and 1950 more than 100.000 Arab-speaking immigrants arrived in Argentina, however, they soon intermarried with the local inhabitants. Fast and intense social and economic mobility limited Muslim identity to the home. The Hispanic-Arab Institute fostered the knowledge of...