Saturday, April 30, 2011

Campground Membership Resales

Lezama Park: a foundation of Buenos Aires, Ernesto Sabato (20/06/08)



between San Telmo and Boca is the Parque Lezama. Tourists in a hurry, go by bus from one neighborhood to another and usually it is skipped. Could be the place where Don Pedro de Mendoza founded Buenos Aires for the first time in 1536 (can you believe that the city was founded twice?)




early nineteenth century there arose a luxurious Italian-style building, adorned with trees and plants arrivals worldwide. The residence has a veranda, a high observation tower, statues, flowerpots, marble and even made a secret passage where it is now the National History Museum.



Today I entered there, and a cold and rainy afternoon, it was predictable over a few pedestrians. What surprised me is that there was nobody. Literally. And also, all alone through a park of 80,000 square meters in the city, worried me a bit ...




insisted, I went back and forth, and nothing. Nobody was going or coming, although roads crossing it can be shortened. On Sunday thousands of visitors invade the place. But this afternoon appears gray and spectral power. Looked back, turning from side to side, and nothing ...




Then I remembered a story that takes an afternoon like today, except that of 1,953 ...

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