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This is the meeting point of the countryside and the city, where the neighborhood’s history turned towards the places where the cows were killed and carved up and the troublemakers that lived around the city.
Liniers Cattle Market
In 1901 the new slaughterhouses were inaugurated in a country were stock farming and agriculture were the main activities. You will find the traditional arcade and a viewpoint in the Old Building of the Slaughterhouse Administration, declared a Historical National Monument. In the right wing of the building you will find the “Criollo de los Corrales” Museum, and can be visited on Sundays from 12 pm to 7 pm in 6436 De los Corrales Av., where there are exhibited works by the painter Molina Campos besides from traditional rural objects.
“El Resero” Sculpture
The sculpture is a bronze statue that reminds us of the gauchos that used to rustle the cattle. The gauchos were the rural people hat inhabited the River Plate plains of Argentina, Uruguay and the south of Brazil in the 18th and 19th centuries. In Argentina they were characterized as a social group that had noble, brave and generous qualities.
Crafts Fair and Argentine Popular Traditions
Although it is distant from the downtown area, this is a very interesting place to visit on Sundays for those who enjoy old and popular Argentine costumes.
There are equestrian competitions where the riders show their skills; there are “carreras de sortijas” (race of the rings, and it is where gauchos race their horses at breakneck speeds towards a small ring hung onto a raised metal frame overhead) and games such as jackstones. You can also appreciate the folklore music of the country and taste delicious native food.
Besides, you can buy maté pots, long gaucho knives, leather products and wood, pottery and fabric crafts.
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