Train Station

Taken in my neighbourghood…
Villa Pueyrredón is a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina. Its name comes from a station of the Central Argentine Railroad, (today F. C. Gral. Mitre), that was called ” km 14 ” and in 1907, received the name of “Pueyrredón”, in honor to the illustrious Brigadier Juan Martin de Pueyrredón. Since the main connection of the neighbourhood, was the traffic of the railroad, it finally gave origin to the local baptism that happened to be call “Villa Pueyrredón”.

The population in this neighbourhood was established by a great quantity of European settlers, principally Italian and Spanish families, which came to be employed at the “great railway project”, the most important of Latin America, then hereby the high amount of establishments gave the neighbourhood a very particular physiognomy. Read more ...if you want ;-P