Mercado de la Abundancia
The Mercado de la Abundancia is a building in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo .
The former market hall, built between 1904 and 1909, is located at 1312 Calle Yaguarón , corner of San José in Barrio Centro . At the location of the market hall, for the construction of which engineer Leopoldo Peluffo was responsible, a market was held outside the old city walls of Ciudad Vieja from 1859 . The first Montevideo market had existed in the old town since 1836. The Mercado Central (1865) and the Mercado del Puerto (1868) were added later. In 1976 the Mercado de la Abundancia was classified as a Monumento Histórico Nacional . In the 1990s, renovations were carried out on the Mercado de la Abundancia building. The Mercado de los Artesanos has been located here since 1996 . Nowadays there are several restaurants and handicrafts available there. The market hall, designed as an iron construction, with a dome above the iron entrance portal on Calle San José , is in the style of eclecticism .
literature
- Guía Arquitectónica y Urbanística de Montevideo. 3. Edition. Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo et al., Montevideo et al. 2008, ISBN 978-9974-600-26-3 , p. 72.
Web links
- Mercado de la Abundancia (Spanish) on www.montevideo.gub.uy, accessed July 9, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the website of the city administration ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Information on www.espectador.com ( Memento of the original dated April 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 34 ° 54 ′ 24.5 ″ S , 56 ° 11 ′ 15.2 ″ W.