{"id":11257,"date":"2011-01-10T23:30:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T07:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/11257"},"modified":"2011-01-10T23:30:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T07:30:21","slug":"the-retiro-neighborhood-buenos-aires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/11257","title":{"rendered":"The Retiro Neighborhood, Buenos Aires"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Retiro Neighborhood is one of most exclusive neighborhoods of Buenos Aires but, originally, the area was a country retreat (retiro) for Spanish governor August\u00ed\u00adn de Robles .\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 San Mart\u00ed\u00adn Plaza, which I described previously,\u00a0is in the Retiro Neighborhood .\u00a0 Near the Plaza stands Palacio San Mart\u00ed\u00adn, built for Mercedes Castellanos de Anchorena and completed in 1909 .\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Palacio San Mart\u00ed\u00adn is currently used for ceremonial purposes by the Ministry of Foreign Relations .\u00a0 Bas\u00ed\u00adlica Sant\u00ed\u00adsimo Sacramento, also nearby, was built by the Anchorena family in 1916 .\u00a0 The last apartment occupied by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges is here in Retiro, with a plaque commemorating him prominently displayed on the wall of the building .\u00a0 After exploring the Retiro Neighborhood, I stopped in a beautiful old church, the name of which I didn’t record .\u00a0 Nonetheless, the interior of this charming neighborhood church is a vivid memory for me.<\/p>\n

\"Palacio<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Palacio San Mart\u00ed\u00adn<\/em><\/p>\n

SOURCE:\u00a0 Palacio San Mart\u00ed\u00adn (Buenos Aires, Argentina), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 02 Jan 2011.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\"Bas\u00ed\u00adlica<\/a><\/p>\n

Bas\u00ed\u00adlica Sant\u00ed\u00adsimo Sacramento<\/em><\/p>\n

SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Bas\u00ed\u00adlica Sant\u00ed\u00adsimo Sacramento (Buenos Aires, Argentina), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 02 Jan 2011.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\"Plaque<\/a><\/p>\n

Plaque Honoring Jorge Luis Borges<\/em><\/p>\n

SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Plaque Honoring Jorge Luis Borges (Buenos Aires, Argentina), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 02 Jan 2011.<\/p>\n

\"Neighborhood<\/a><\/p>\n

Neighborhood Church in Buenos Aires<\/em><\/p>\n

SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Neighborhood Church in Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 02 Jan 2011.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Retiro Neighborhood is one of most exclusive neighborhoods of Buenos Aires but, originally, the area was a country retreat (retiro) for Spanish governor August\u00ed\u00adn de Robles. San Mart\u00ed\u00adn Plaza, which I described previously, is in the Retiro Neighborhood. Near the Plaza stands Palacio San Mart\u00ed\u00adn, built for Mercedes Castellanos de Anchorena and completed in 1909. Palacio San Mart\u00ed\u00adn is currently used for ceremonial purposes by the Ministry of Foreign Relations. Bas\u00ed\u00adlica Sant\u00ed\u00adsimo Sacramento, also nearby, was built by the Anchorena family in 1916. The last apartment occupied by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges is here in Retiro, with a plaque commemorating him prominently displayed on the wall of the building. After exploring the Retiro Neighborhood, I stopped in a beautiful old church, the name of which I didn’t record. Nonetheless, the interior of this charming neighborhood church is a vivid memory for me. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[170],"class_list":["post-11257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-buenos-aires"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-2Vz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}