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Argentina: Buenos Aires - San Antonio de Areco

an Antonio de Areco is to 113 km of the Town of Buenos Aires. By traversing its streets, you will be able to discover through its colonial grids the history and the tradition of our country. The name of the city, has two versions of origin.
According to the tradition and some historians, its name would come from a soldier of the name of Areco which would have triumphed over the Indians in a combat which would have taken place, at the edge of the river which passes by there, at the beginning over XVII. Another version of the historian José C Burgeon states that the name of this current or river is due to the fact that with its accesses "species of palm tree grew the "arec", whose fruit used the composition of the buyo or the betel of the Indians.
It is on the edges of the Areco River, into full pampas with Buenos Aires. In 1730 at the request of José Ruiz d´Arellano, one devotes in homage to San Antonio, the name of this city to reduce to it malons them. This construction which had been raised in 1728 during the stay of José Ruíz d´ Arellano for the "Payment of Areco". July 7, 1750, José Ruiz d´ Arellano, made gift of the founded city. These grounds will be transformed into "grounds of the Saint" which will give birth and dash to the city. Ruiz d´ Arellano was downward of Sancho V, king de Navarre and had arrived at the Vice Kingdom of Plata during the year 1662.
He married in 1699 with Mrs María Giles Dew and in 1737 with Mrs María Teodora Serum. The Grounds of Areco were yielded for the services rendered to the Spanish Crown. The city was transformed into parish two years later and in 1762 one created one second church and into 1870 the third.
In 1822 was appointed the first Justice of the Peace of the party and in 1854 the first popular vote to choose the communal authorities takes place, and start their functions in 1856. On the Areco River one finds the
Old Bridge, builds in 1857 by a commission of neighbours, which during several decades was the single transportation route for the inhabitants of the two margins of the river of Areco, in Pulpier by that Blanched and the characters of these old fields.

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