Mataderos Neighborhood, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina

The best attractions are placed in different neighborhoods and they include one of the most pleasant places of the city: The Gaucho Fair that is carried out every Sunday in Mataderos neighborhood.

Limits

Mataderos neighborhood is delimited by Emilio Castro, Escalada, Eva Perón and General Paz Avenues.
Mataderos, a traditional neighborhood, is located to the west of the city. It is a place where the country and the city are combined.
Mataderos is actually an industrial zone with a lot of traffic, where the past is venerated thanks to the presence of gauchos herding cattle and urban workers.

What to visit?

El Museo Criollo de los Corrales (Museum)

The museum works inside the former slaughterhouse administration, there, you will find numerous typical instruments belong to the Argentinean gaucho’s activities and life.

La Recova del Viejo Mercado

Nucleus of Mataderos Fair is carried out every weekend with more than 300 stands that sell food (empanadas, locros) and gauchos crafts (blankets, ponchos and leather and silver objects); in this fair, thousands of neighbors and tourists get together.
In this fair, there are spectacles of breaking horses, bullfights, “guitarreadas” (songs accompanied with guitarists), meetings and traditional dances.

Mataderos Fair

It is located between Lisandro de la Torre and de Los Corrales Avenues
This is the most representative cultural root of Argentina. It is carried out every Sunday at 11:00 hrs.
It offers numerous stands organized in three areas:

- Crafts and Argentinean food (empanadas, locro and the “patero” wine)
- Artistic festivals (folklore and popular dances)
- “Gauchas” demonstrations (riding, breaking, “carrera de sortijas” – race -, “palo enjabonado” – a soaped stick for doing some demonstrations).
There are also free workshops, tango, etc.

Monument to Resero

It is located in front of the old market

This is a bronze monument, built in 1934, by Emilio Sargniguet. Such monument represents a horseman that spurs the cattle.