Villa Crespo
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Villa Crespo is a middle-class neighbourhood in Buenos Aires
, Argentina
, located in the geographical centre of the city. It had a population of 83,646 people in 2001, and thus population density
of 23,235 inhabitants/km².
It grew around the "Fábrica Nacional de Calzado" (National Shoe Factory, 1888). It is named after Buenos Aires mayor, Antonio F. Crespo. On April 11, 1894, the San Bernardo church was opened to the public. Villa Crespo was home to several conventillos, including the most famous one, the Conventillo de la Paloma. Under Juan B. Justo avenue runs the Maldonado waterstream, culverted to prevent major floods.
Villa Crespo has been traditionally associated with the Jewish community, hosting several synagogue
s, hebrew schools and youth movements, but it is actually populated by a mix of different peoples, just like the rest of Buenos Aires. Its traditional football (soccer)
club is Atlanta
.
Until the 1980s, it had a clothing commercial centre in Scalabrini Ortiz Avenue (previously named Canning), but it has lost its strength over the years. The main commercial hub is still the intersection of Scalabrini Ortiz and Corrientes avenues.
Some leather
clothes stores are located in the area around Murillo street, and on Warnes Avenue are numerous auto-part stores. On the other hand, the neighbourhood has a relative lack of parks and squares.
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
, located in the geographical centre of the city. It had a population of 83,646 people in 2001, and thus population density
Population density
Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans...
of 23,235 inhabitants/km².
It grew around the "Fábrica Nacional de Calzado" (National Shoe Factory, 1888). It is named after Buenos Aires mayor, Antonio F. Crespo. On April 11, 1894, the San Bernardo church was opened to the public. Villa Crespo was home to several conventillos, including the most famous one, the Conventillo de la Paloma. Under Juan B. Justo avenue runs the Maldonado waterstream, culverted to prevent major floods.
Villa Crespo has been traditionally associated with the Jewish community, hosting several synagogue
Synagogue
A synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer. This use of the Greek term synagogue originates in the Septuagint where it sometimes translates the Hebrew word for assembly, kahal...
s, hebrew schools and youth movements, but it is actually populated by a mix of different peoples, just like the rest of Buenos Aires. Its traditional football (soccer)
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
club is Atlanta
Club Atlético Atlanta
Club Atlético Atlanta is an Argentine sports club from Buenos Aires. Nicknamed Los Bohemios , its football team won the 2010/11 Primera B Metropolitana championship and promoted to the Primera B Nacional for the 2011/12 season.-History:The club was founded on October the 12th, 1904 in Buenos...
.
Until the 1980s, it had a clothing commercial centre in Scalabrini Ortiz Avenue (previously named Canning), but it has lost its strength over the years. The main commercial hub is still the intersection of Scalabrini Ortiz and Corrientes avenues.
Some leather
Leather
Leather is a durable and flexible material created via the tanning of putrescible animal rawhide and skin, primarily cattlehide. It can be produced through different manufacturing processes, ranging from cottage industry to heavy industry.-Forms:...
clothes stores are located in the area around Murillo street, and on Warnes Avenue are numerous auto-part stores. On the other hand, the neighbourhood has a relative lack of parks and squares.
Villa Crespo people
- Osvaldo PuglieseOsvaldo PuglieseOsvaldo Pedro Pugliese was an Argentine tango musician. He developed dramatic arrangements that retained strong elements of the walking beat of salon tango but also heralded the development of concert-style tango music.Some of his music, mostly since the 50s, is used for theatrical dance...
, tangoTango musicTango is a style of ballroom dance music in 2/4 or 4/4 time that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay . It is traditionally played by a sextet, known as the orquesta típica, which includes two violins, piano, double bass, and two bandoneons...
musician - Leopoldo MarechalLeopoldo MarechalLeopoldo Marechal was one of the most important Argentine writers of the twentieth century.- Biographical notes :...
, writer, who located many episodes of his Adán Buenosayres novel in Villa Crespo - poet Juan GelmanJuan GelmanJuan Gelman is an Argentine poet. He has published more than twenty books of poetry since 1956. He won the Cervantes Prize in 2007, the most important in Spanish literature...