San Telmo Neighborhood

It´s one of the oldest and traditional neighborhoods in the city, called originally Altos de San Pedro, and then San Pedro Telmo, that has the particularity of having a quite important historical conservation and a great linking to the tango. This neighborhood that was one of those more affected by the yellow fever of 1870, had population's exodus and deterioration that stopped their growth, for what many new buildings were not added in substitution of the old ones, like it passed in most of the city. In the last years a very big revaluation of this neighborhood that brought growth and investments again, took place but inside a mark of conservation of the historical patrimony, what took to many recycle tasks. They stand out in this neighborhood the street Defensa, considered the oldest in Buenos Aires. In this street is the Plaza Dorrego, declared National Historical Monument, in the one that the weekends tango shows, mimes and payadores are made. Also in this area several local of antiques are resided. They stand out the 1734 building of the Church of San Telmo, the Museum of Modern Art, an enormous building of bricks that before belonged to a tobacco factory, the Market San Telmo in Carlos Calvo and Bolivar, with an intact architecture of more than 100 years, the Viejo Almacén, place tanguero par excellence, besides other so many coffee and pubs that are in the proximities of the Plaza Dorrego. In an end of the neighborhood it is the Park Lezama, erected in a difference in the old ravine of the river, considered as one of the supposed locations of the first foundation that has in their interior the gratuitous National Museum of History, in the old residence of the family Lezama, a mirador, an amphitheater and monuments like that of the International Confraternity donated by the city of Montevideo, and that of Pedro de Mendoza. In front of the park he/she is the Russian Orthodox Church, with their typical domes. In this park part of the history of "Sobre Héroes y Tumbas" of Ernesto Sábato is centered.