Visit Rosario Art Nouveau

Rosario is the third biggest town of Argentina. Its map is paced by perpendicular roads. Many thanks to Anibal Radrizzani for his pictures. There are more than 50 Art Nouveau buildings in Rosario mainly influenced bu Stile Liberty (Italy) and modernismo (Barcelona). From the Wikipédia : "The city's economy and population expanded at an accelerated rate. By 1880, Rosario had become the first export outlet of Argentina. By 1887 it had about 50,000 inhabitants, of which 40% were immigrants, who brought new ideas from Europe and started turning Rosario into a politically progressive city (contrasting with the more conservative, aristocratic Santa Fe). During part of the second half of the 19th century there was a movement promoting that the city of Rosario become the capital of the republic. Ovidio Lagos, founder of the oldest Argentine newspaper, La Capital, was one of the strongest defenders of this idea... Rosario was indeed declared the federal capital in three occasions, but each time the law received a veto of the Executive Branch (once by Bartolomé Mitre and twice by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento). In the last 15 years of the 19th century, the city more than doubled in population. Demographic growth took its toll of bad living conditions, epidemics of contagious diseases such as tuberculosis, and increased labour offer resulting in exploitation. In 1901, a worker on strike was killed by the police for the first time in Rosario. The city then became a major outpost for anarchist movements. The Radical Civic Union produced an uprising in 1903, and the party won in the first elections under the new secret compulsory voting law. The population doubled again in about ten years," to about 200.000 inhabitants.

Edificio Remonda Montserrat

     


Head of Spanish club

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