Mataderos Neighborhood, Buenos Aires city, Argentina

The west attractions are in different neighborhoods and include one of the most pleasant places of the city: The gaucho fair is carried out every Sunday in Mataderos neighborhood.

Limits.-
Mataderos neighborhood is delimited by Emilio Castro, Escalada, Eva Perón and General Paz avenues.

Mataderos, traditional neighborhood of Buenos Aires autonomous city, is located to the west of the city. It is a place where there are country and city because there, in 1899, the cattle slaughterhouse.

Mataderos is actually an industrial zone, with a lot of traffic, where, the past is venerated, there were gauchos herding cattle and urban workers.

What to visit

El Museo Criollo de los Corrales (museum)

The museum functions in the former slaughterhouse administration, there; you will find numerous typical instruments of activities and life of Argentinean gaucho.

La recova del viejo mercado

Nucleus of Mataderos fair that 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), thousand of neighbors and tourist get together.

In the fair, there are spectacles of breaking horses, bullfights and “guitarreadas”(songs accompanied with guitarist), meetings, song meetings and traditional dances.

Mataderos Fair
Av. Lisandro de la Torre and Av. de Los Corrales

It is the most representative of 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 “patero” wine)
- Artistic festivals (spectacles, folklore and popular dances) and
- Gauchas demonstrations (ridings, breaking, carrera de sortijas(race), “palo enjabonado” – a soaped stick for doing demonstrations).

There are also free looms workshops, guitar, wooden carved, tango, and so on.

Monument to Resero
In front of old market

Bronze monument built in 1934 by Emilio Sargniguet, is a horseman that spur the cattle.