Abasto de Buenos Aires

The Abasto Shopping is one of the largest shopping malls in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a landmark example of Art Deco architecture in Latin America. The building served as the city's central wholesale fruit and vegetable market (Mercado de Abasto) from 1893 to 1984. Designed by architects José Luis Delpini, Viktor Sulčič, and Raúl Bes—the same team responsible for La Bombonera stadium—the current Art Deco structure was completed in 1934 and represents a pioneering use of reinforced concrete in Argentine architecture. After the market closed in 1984, the building remained abandoned for over a decade before being purchased in 1996 by IRSA, the real estate company led by Eduardo Elsztain.IRSA restored the building's historic façade while converting it into a modern shopping center, which opened in November 1998. The area surrounding the Abasto has deep cultural significance in tango history, particularly as the neighborhood where legendary singer Carlos Gardel—known as El Morocho del Abasto ("the dark-haired guy from Abasto")—lived from 1927 to 1933. Today, the surrounding area, though officially part of the Balvanera neighbourhood, is commonly referred to as Abasto. The shopping center is served by the adjoining Line B metro station Carlos Gardel.

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Carlos Gardel (Buenos Aires Underground)

Carlos Gardel is a station on Line B of the Buenos Aires Underground. The station is located in the Balvanera barrio, at the intersection of Avenida Corrientes and Calle Agüero. It was opened on 17 October 1930 as part of the inaugural section of the line between Federico Lacroze and Callao.

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Centro Ameghino

Centro Ameghino is a hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was founded in 1948 by the Ministry of Health, and was initially designated as the "Institute of Applied Psychopathology"

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Once railway station

Once railway station (Spanish: Estación Once de Setiembre, lit. 'Eleventh of September Station', Latin American Spanish: [ˈonse]; informally known as Spanish: Estación Once, lit. 'Eleventh Station') is a large railway terminus in central Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the barrio of Balvanera. The station, inaugurated on 20 December 1882, is located in the barrio of Balvanera, immediately north of Plaza Miserere, a large public square. The current terminal, designed by the Dutch architect John Doyer in Renaissance Revival style, was built in two stages, from 1895 to 1898, and then from 1906 to 1907. The station is named after the 11 September 1852 rebellion of Buenos Aires against the federal government of Justo José de Urquiza. Contrary to popular belief, the station is not named after the death of the president Domingo Faustino Sarmiento on 11 September 1888.

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2013 Buenos Aires train crash

The Buenos Aires train crash occurred on October 19, 2013 when a passenger train failed to stop at a terminal station in Buenos Aires, Argentina, injuring 105 people. As of October 2013, the causes of the accident were under investigation.

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