Rose Garden, Buenos Aires, Argentina
According to the chronicles, a man named Juan Domínguez Palermo and was born in Sicily, a place that, in times of coming into the world depended on the Kingdom of Aragon.That’s why he could be part of the Spanish elite settled with Don Juan de Garay.The fact is that back in 1590, the Sicilian married Elizabeth, daughter of Miguel Gomes Gate and Saravia, a Spanish who had been awarded Garay lands that now comprise the neighborhood.Thus, the farms that were in the area and Juan Domínguez Palermo joined the then Elizabeth would inherit from his father.
Of course, another story told a woman he called “Palermo” a stream of the area, he said, made him recall to that Italian city.And that’s why he took the name fields.But the first is to accumulate more credit among historians.
Then in 1836, would the question of Juan Manuel de Rosas and his home in San Benito de Palermo, a name determined by how the area was called the predecessor and a chapel of that saint black, was the fifth of Unzué.Rose’s residence was in what is now the intersection of Avenida del Libertador and Avenue Sarmiento.And it was dynamited in 1899.
Those were the days when the Chavango Avenue (now Las Heras) was notorious nightclubs (one of the most noted was the so-called First Light) in which not only ran the gin, so did the blood after a knife fight, those that were made with short steel sheets, a sign of good fighter outskirts.The longleaf, they said, were for the cowards.
That reputation for marginal zone in the vicinity of the present Coronel Diaz Avenue, made the place was known as “Tierra del Fuego,” for being so harsh.And that is what gave rise to the warning that once made a handsome face a potential adversary, “Stand back, I beg, I am of the Tierra del Fuego.”These events occurred in the shadow cast by the high walls of the National Penitentiary (occupied what is now the Parque Las Heras), inaugurated in May 1877.The demolished in 1962 but is still remembered there shot the anarchist Severino Di Giovanni typographer (1 February 1931) and General Juan José Valle, leader of an uprising in favor of Peronism (June 12, 1956).
And on the avenue Chavango was where I first tram powered by electricity ran through Buenos Aires.The trial occurred on April 22, 1897 in the section from Scalabrini Ortiz to the area of the gates (now Plaza Italia), elsewhere difficult environment, as we remember the tango Three friends , the work of Enrique Cadícamo: “A Once back in Gates, saved me from death / never miss bumping when a poor sports. “Twenty years later, the network of trams Buenos Aires was about 900 kilometers of roads, 3,000 vehicles and 100 routes.
The days of knife, dancing and milongas with unholy living atmosphere, would be reflected in the writings of Jorge Francisco Isidoro such a Luis Borges, “Georgie” to his intimates.As the notoriety surrounding the Maldonado, a stream that takes its name from the legend of a woman who had arrived with the expedition of Pedro de Mendoza and was punished and left for the mountain lions killed, something that did not happen because the protected animals themselves.But that’s another story.
From: http://www.clarin.com/ciudades/Palermo-apellido-barrio-cuchilleros_0_502749789.html. By Eduardo Parise.
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