Lezama Park
Lezama Park is a public park in the
San Telmo district of Buenos Aires, Argentina
.
Overview
Historians believe the park's eastern barranca to have been the site of Spanish
English Argentines, the last of whom, Charles Ridgley Horne, improved and expanded the property, raising a baroque mansion on the land's western edge, Defensa Street. Allied to the repressive paramount Governor of Buenos Aires, Juan Manuel de Rosas, Ridgley Horne was forced into exile after the strongman's 1852 overthrow
, however, and the land was sold to José Gregorio Lezama, who added adjoining lots to the north and gave the green space its current dimensions.
Lezama commissioned Belgian landscape designer Charles Veerecke to beautify the grounds, planting rows of
French Argentine urbanist Carlos Thays, remodeled the park with gates, a rose garden, a gazebo, a pergola, a sculpture garden and an esplanade
in 1904.
The park's surroundings were enhanced by the 1901 inaugural of the
Second Empire style, notably the one housing the Bar Británico, an English-style Pub
still popular among locals. The Canale Biscuit Company factory, a leading neighborhood employer when it opened in 1910, was converted into an arts and commercial complex in 2006.
The 1930s saw the removal of the perimeter gates, as well as the addition of monuments such as the one to
street vendors
, continued to blight the park, however.
Images from the park
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Facing the park
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Bar Británico Pub (NW of the park) -
The Buenos Aires Russian Orthodox Church (north) -
The Canale Biscuit Company Lofts (south)
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External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Parque Lezama.
- buenosaires.gov (in Spanish)
- Pagina/12: El futuro del Parque Lezama está en su historia (in Spanish)
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