Discovery : San Antonio de Areco (Pcia de Bs As)

Placed under the protection of Saint Antoine de Padoue, the village of San Antonio de Areco honours his Patron saint, on June 13 of each year, but the most important festivities, those which drain the greatest number of tourists, take place in November at the time of the Week of the Traditions.
In this Sunday of May, first colds are felt. The sun, although low on the horizon, still heats the few passers one can crosse in streets. The others are at church, remain snuggling at home, or haunt “pulpérias” and others “almacenes”. The most visible are finally the dogs which go from one “esquina” to another, in the search of a caress.
Inaugurated in 1730 per Don Jose Ruiz de Arellano, San Antonio de Areco spread on a perfect checkerwork its houses on one level, of style neo-Renaissance, and perpetuates, by its brick frontages for most rustic, decorated planks worked for richest, the heart of the gaucho depicted by the child of the country, the writer Ricardo Güiraldes (Don Segundo Sombra, Cuentos de Muerte y Sangre)
Almacen = grocery.
Esquina = corner of street, angle of house bevelled.
Pulperia = bar where the gauchos met themselves.