Villa Crespo

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Location of Villa Crespo in Buenos Aires
A small monument to the tango pioneer Osvaldo Pugliese, who was born in the district

Villa Crespo is a district of the Argentine capital Buenos Aires . It is located southwest of the Palermo district and is 3.8 km² in size. Villa Crespo has 89,859 inhabitants and a population density of 23,647 inhabitants per km² (as of 2001).

description

Villa Crespo is predominantly inhabited by the middle class. The district, named after the mayor Antonio F. Crespo , developed around the Fábrica Nacional de Calzado shoe factory , which was opened in 1888. On April 11, 1894, the local church of San Bernardo was inaugurated, there were also several "Conventillos", including the famous Conventillo de la Paloma . Conventillos is a type of collective urban living space in which each room is rented by a family.

Villa Crespo was considered the historical Jewish quarter of Buenos Aires, and there are still several synagogues there today . At present, the population is essentially mixed, as in the rest of Buenos Aires.

The economic center of the district is located around the intersection of Avenida Scalabrini Ortiz and Avenida Corrientes .

Well-known personalities of the district include the tango pioneer Osvaldo Pugliese , the author Leopoldo Marechal and the Argentine poet and Cervantes Prize winner Juan Gelman .

The football club Club Atlético Atlanta is based in the district. The film Bolivia , shot in an Argentine-Dutch co-production in 2001 , is largely set in a café in Villa Crespo.

Web links

Commons : Villa Crespo  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical conventillos. Caminito. Retrieved August 16, 2019 .

Coordinates: 34 ° 36 ′  S , 58 ° 27 ′  W