In the place where Juan Manuel de Rosas lived, the Museum of the site will operate, with relics from the 1800

Moreno 550 is the direction of the Site Museum, as will be called a new museum space that will exhibit a good part of the around 5,000 archaeological objects of incalculable value that, by chance, were found right there, in the heart of the city of BuenosAirs and that largely belonged to Juan Manuel de Rosas.

Such a surprise will have taken the operators while drilling the land cement plate to lift offices and commercial premises.Suddenly, porcelain, brushes, vases and thousands of relics of 1800 traveled without scales through the tunnel of time until their eyes of the 21st century.

They turned off the machines and called the Government of the City of Buenos Aires.Everything that was from that bottomless magician galley left the authorities speech the fact and, when they managed to analyze the situation, they gave voice high and the excavations continued, but with white gloves.

It was evident that what was coming to light were the treasures of the history of the city of Buenos Aires.And not any story, but that of Juan Manuel de Rosas, Encarnación Ezcurra and many other illustrious characters, but also anonymous who occupied that space and leaving their traces after others.

Juan Manuel de Rosas lived in Moreno 550

Much of what was discovered in that apple located immediately south of the apple of the lights, the limited today by Peru, Moreno, Bolívar and Belgrano, belonged to the Ezcurra Arguibel family, the in -laws of Juan Manuel de Rosas.

There the Government House of the Province of Buenos Aires and also the headquarters of the Post Office and Telegraphs, precisely at the corner of Moreno and Bolívar.

After the Battle of Caseros (1852), when the governor of Buenos Aires was defeated by the Alliance of the Grande and the Unitarians, the new authorities confiscated Rosas not only the site of Moreno 550 but also all the homes inThe block, between Peru and Bolívar.

All that minicenter of Buenos Aires power was going through various hands and the 5,000 objects found (only about 300 are complete and complete) will allow vertical and horizontally reconstructing how the domestic life of the various social classes that inhabited Montserrat, throughout 1800.

Museum, luxuries and relics of 1800

The archaeological rescue project was in the hands of the doctor in Archeology Ana Igareta, researcher at CONICET and Historical Archeology Coordinator of the Museum of La Plata.The expert planned to work on 15 archaeological structures that excavated at a depth that ranged between 3 and 8 meters.This is how 3 aljibes, 5 blind wells and 3 latrines, among many other surprises.

With everything found, 117 drawers of archaeological material were collected and 2650 archaeological sheets were developed.

Between shovel and shovel 500 bottles of English wine appeared.One, however, particularly caught the attention of Dr. Ana Igareta: a bottle of a wine that was made between 1835 and 1870, of dark green glass, called "black glass", but that in the Buenos Aires houses was stored afterThe toasts, to reuse with other contents.

Among those vestiges of ethyl pleasures, another had remained in a latrine, covered with a cork, green moss cover and with a nausebound smell, of course.They uncovered her, but far from appearing Ali Babá, what she appeared was a colony of insects, flies and poups dyed red.

They sent them to analyze them and it was learned that, once the wine took, the bottle was filled with duck blood."The blood duck, or Canard Au Sang," was a special dish in that 19th century elite family, "they explain from Dr. Ana Igareta's team.

Rosas and the English dishes

Among these subtle indications that in Moreno 550 the food was never missing, a huge amount of stamped English crockery, talavera dishes;More than a dozen dishes with the legend "Federation or Death" (until that day there was only one dish of roses and was in the National Historical Museum);In addition to 35 beach and deep dishes with the message "Long live the Federation", so that it would be clear who sent at home.

That was not all: they continued to appear bacinillas (urinal) in strong and bright colors, hand -painted English allees, Jofaina with Gaudy Dutch floral motifs;inkwells, blackboards, many balls "with which Lucio Mansilla, Juan Manuel de Rosas's nephew" will have played;Balls sewn with leather tientes and others of rubber;polished bone domino pieces;marble dice;And caolin pipes that, when they broke, they were given to the boys to use them bubble.

Roses and French perfumes

The luxuries in Rosas times were not just men's thing.The excavation in Moreno 550 brought again to the present many female coketers of 1800.

To begin with, hair brushes: a wooden handle that held pork, wild boar or horse that the patrician ladies not only used to comb but also to hide the lack of hygiene (the hair was washed very much as long asHe still did not dream of the dry shampoo spray).

After the brushes they returned to light innumerable pots of crockery that in their good times kept creams and ointments of all kinds;Some had ended between the garbage without being open, but others, thick and culons, were ceramic pieces that had to contain expensive products, given the little size that the wrapping left the ointment (enlarging containers and reducing content is a commercial trap of longdata).

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Many of those aesthetic luxuries pointed to Europe, such as the Baronne Durand (the brand that made the wife of a French spy famous) and the antiseptics, the countless tonic, glass perfumes and the infallible French perfumes, not forgetting the colony “Laugier, Père et Fils ”that many ladies of the time would have wanted to release on a Saturday.

And among the remains of the past suddenly an unsuspected perlite appeared: Florida water, one of the most popular colonies of the nineteenth century, which was sold as the miracle that mitigated the pain of the body, and perhaps those of the soul, because theTerm "Florida Agua" not only referred to the place of origin of the elixir but also to the source of eternal youth that, in the Chic world of 1800, did not seem to have domicile in Asia, or in the old continent but in the Florida Peninsula, where Miami is today, the favorite destination of Argentines ... What are curious are the laps of life!

Rose tank

The immense volume of the past was "not having a background" when 63 more days of excavations were required for a cistern colossal to give signs of life amid so many debris.It was so royal and huge that 13 trucks were required to free it from the earth that buried it.

The "Cistern de Rosas", as was baptized to underground relic, had everything to think that it would be one more of "the mysterious tunnels", which are attributed to Buenos Aires.However, it was not.

Before Buenos Aires had running water (between 1860 and the end of the 19th century), domestic water came from rivers, wells or fell from heaven every time it rained.Most people joined water in jars;Only a wealthy family could afford to build this colossus with brick walls that guaranteed water purity.

As the little man's little man, Manuel Mujica Láinez, shows the tanks of the rich ended up in a brocal in the patio, from where a bucket sustained by strings left in search of liquid gold buried on earth.

The Rosas Cistern is the largest once discovered in Buenos Aires: Round, with 7.20 meters in diameter, 6 meters deep and a capacity greater than 200,000 liters of water (5 domestic pools of 8 x 4 meters).Coated with lime mortar and brick dust, it has a French tile floor of the Norman region of El Havre.

In order not to lose the habit of surprising, Moreno 550 remained news in 2018, when a second cistern was found, of the same characteristics as the previous one, but smaller.

Moreno 550 and a half apple plus

Until today the Operational Management of Heritage, of the Directorate of Heritage of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, worked with 1035 fragments of red crockery, 456 pieces of porcelain, 2176 pieces of other decorations and 72 pieces of white crockens.In total 3739 fragments, but the work continues: to be, each piece needs a file and a photographic record.

The subsequent analysis is allowing to determine that not everything found belonged to the roses.By Moreno 550 time left traces of various social classes.

"The inkwells and pieces of blackboards found, surely belonged to the South Cathedral School, of the Sarmientine era, for example," specifies Dr. José Sellés-Martínez, president of the Institute of Historical Research of the Apple of the Lights.

“That house was from the bishop, who sold it to the Arguibel family, great -grandparents of Encarnación Ezcurra.Then Ignacio Ezcurra and Teodora Arguibel, the parents of Encarnación, who was born here in 1795. Rosas asked his hand in 1813 and lived in Moreno 550 since they got married.There were also his three children and Encarnación died, in 1838, ”Sellés-Martínez continues.

In Moreno 550, Pablo Rosas and Belgrano also lived, the illegitimate son that María Josefa Ezcurra (sister -in -law of Rosas) had with his lover 15 years old, Manuel Belgrano, the creator of the flag.

Moreno 550 was also "the office" from where the twice governor of Buenos Aires and in charge of the foreign relations of the Argentine Confederation with extraordinary faculties made his enemies and political opponents tremble, since he rarely stepped on the fort, the government headquarters.

Moreno 550 in the twentieth century

When Encarnación Ezcurra died in 1838, within this same house of Moreno 550, Rosas moved to the Caserón de Palermo, with 7 scribes who accompanied him.

Between 1836 and 1844, the federal leader was buying his mother -in -law, Teodora Arguibel de Ezcurra, not only the house of Moreno 550 but the adjacent lots.She was almost half apple.

In 1870, when the former leader punctured a long time he lived in Southampton, the United Kingdom, a municipal plane of Moreno Street testimonized that the properties of Rosas had mutated and fragmented in the government house of the province of Buenos Aires, the schoolModel, the sealing role of the province, the Patent Office, the Major Notary of the Provincial Government and the National Justice House of the Nation's Supreme Court.

Where the mail was, for the first centenary of the homeland, the brothers Lorenzo, José and Benito Raggio, pressed against clock to inaugurate their brand new and portentous commercial premises, which today is called the Raggio Palace.

And in the great house inhabited by the in -laws of Rosas with their nine children, where the Rosas himself spent his honeymoon, was demolished in 1890 and in 1970 it was already a parking beach.

Site Museum

“At this time it is still working right where the tanks are.For now and until the site museum is inaugurated (there is still no precise date) what is exhibited are the panels of the sample 'anticipating the site museum', but not the original objects, ”clarifies Dr. Sellés-Martínez.

Guided visits to the Site Museum, which will work on the ground floor, will be held on Saturdays at 4:00 p.m. and will be free, sponsored by the construction company that works on the works that will be built on the site.

Por otra parte y para completar el paseo, el Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas de la Manzana de las Luces también ofrecerá visitas guiadas a la Manzana de las Luces (la cuadrícula de oro que depende del Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación) y otros recorridos por Montserrat, haciendo énfasis en la historia social, cultural y arquitectónica del lugar. Serán tanto para público general y escuelas, pero aranceladas. En ambos casos requerirán inscripción previa al correo [email protected]

While the site museum is inaugurated, those interested in the Buenos Aires heritage and the Rosistic saga can visit the Museum of Juan Manuel de Rosas, in San Andrés.

“In the Saavedra Museum, in CABA, there is also an important collection of rose objects, donated by the architect Eduardo Zemborain. The so -called Casa de Rosas in San Andrés seems to make it built for when it had to stay in the area because there you were thereThey concentrated military bodies.In those places (the holy places, precisely) troops were housed that participated in the return of Obligado and in the battle of Caseros.But he was not "his house" of him in the sense of family life.He had his family home in Moreno 550 and, after the death of Encarnación, in Palermo, ”clarifies Dr. Sellés-Martínez.

“In addition, Rosas had in his stays houses that he lived when he was for reasons‘ of a rastbean 'sometimes to take some rest.But calling that place of San Andrés ‘Casa de Rosas’ is a bit excessive ... ”, summarizes the president of the Institute of Historical Research of the Apple of Lights, to draw the map of the Rosistic Circuit available in Buenos Aires.Pretty scarce, by the way.

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