Paseo de las Artes (Flea Market)

 

It is located in what used to be a complex of public housing for workmen, built between the years 1889 and 1890 by the then mayor, Luis Revol. They still maintain their facades.

“El Paseo de las Artes”, situated in “La Cañada” and Belgrano Street, houses each weekend a craft fair, commonly known as “Feria de las Pulgas” (Flea Market), and a heterogeneous circuit of stores offering antiques, designer items, second-hand items, among others.

 

Address: Achával Rodríguez and Belgrano.
Days and Times: Saturdays, Sundays, and Official Holidays. 
Summer Timetable: 5 pm to 11 pm.
Winter Timetable: 4 pm to 10 pm.

 

 

Ibero-American Museum of Crafts

 

It is located inside “Paseo de las Artes” and displays in its permanent exhibition almost 160 pieces of work belonging to the field of traditional and modern craft of the Latin American continent. It also includes indigenous crafts from Brazil and Peru, works of Chilean and Argentine Mapuches, Nicaraguan ceramics, and woodcarving from Puerto Rico, just to name some.

 

Address: Pasaje Revol 10, on the corner of Belgrano

Timetable: Tuesday to Friday from 10 am to 3 pm. Saturdays, Sundays, and Official Holidays from 10 am to 9.30 pm.

 

 

Cultural Centre “Casa de Pepino”

 

It is an old house dating back to the beginnings of the XX century and finished in 1914. It belonged to an Italian immigrant who came to Argentina at the end of the XIX century. In the building, the walls get closer one another as they approach to the corner, resembling a ship’s bow, since “La Cañada” (not channeled yet) hit the southern wall of the house. It was the biggest and most important market of the area, called “El Vapor de Pepino”. Then, it became a family house, and in 1999 the City Hall of Córdoba expropriated it in order to give it cultural use. This cultural center displays a permanent exhibition about uses and customs of that time: from the end of the XIX century to the beginnings of the XX century.

 

Address: Fructuoso Rivera and Belgrano.
Timetable: Tuesday to Sunday, from 9 am to 7 pm.

 

 

Saint Francis Solano Chapel

 

This chapel was built in 1913 for the inhabitants of the neighborhood not to walk to the downtown in order to go to church. In 1914, Tránsito Cáceres de Allende founded, just opposite the chapel, the retirement home Saint Francis Solano to care for the elder. It has been called since then “Casa Vicentina”. It still remains in operation.

 

Address: Belgrano 656 (Chapel) - Belgrano 647 (Retirement home).