South Costanera

Location: next to the Ecological Reserve from South Dock to North Dock

District: Port Log Inauguration: 1918 (like bath)

Collective: 4, 29, 33, 53, 54, 64, 86, 129, 130, 152, 154, 159, 168, 186.

He has been one of the most popular strolls of Buenos Aires for almost a century. People are going to the costanera to walk in bicycle, to trotar, or spending the day in family. In 1918 the municipal bath was inaugurated in the costanera and their beaches became the most concurred of the River of the Silver. In the decades of 1940 and 1950, in the zone they opened to restaurants and theaters where to the night the humorous tangueros and actors acted fashionable, like Aníbal Troilo or Jose “Pepitito” Marrone.

As of 1960 the stroll lost importance, mainly by the contamination of the river, that took to the prohibition to bathe in its waters. In the decades of 1990 and 2000, the costanera and the parks of the boulevards were recovered. The costanera very is visited by day and at night, specially the week ends. In their wide paths numerous “carts” work: food positions at the rate that they specialize in bondiola sandwiches (pig meat).