Balvanera
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Balvanera is a barrio or neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Clockwise from top: the Argentine National Congress Palace, Confitería del Molino, the Abasto Shopping and Palacio de Aguas Corrientes.
Eclectic architecture along Callao Avenue.
The Argentine Congress and Auguste Rodin's Thinker, one of the few surviving originals the sculptor made.
French Academy architecture lost among its modern surroundings, Corrientes and Pueyrredón Avenues.
Abasto de Buenos Aires
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The Abasto Shopping is one of the biggest shopping mall centers in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The building was the central wholesale fruit and vegetable market in the city from 1893 to 1984. Since 1999, it has served as a shopping mall. It is also famous for being in the area where the tango singer Carlos Gardel, known as El Morocho del Abasto, lived for most of his life. Today, the surrounding area, though part of the Balvanera neighbourhood, is sometimes referred to as Abasto.
Abasto de Buenos Aires
The original Mercado de Abasto c. 1890s
People at the market in 1898
A populated market as seen in 1925