THE
CITY KEEPS MYSTERIOUS MEMORIES IN ITS STREETS. BUENOS AIRES WE
TELLS A STORY IN EVERY CORNER: TRAGIC, LONELY LOVES
GHOSTS AND SOME LOST GIRLFRIEND MAKE UP THE SCRAPS OF MEMORY
PORTEÑA.
MYTHS
PORTEÑOS. THE STORIES THAT THE PEOPLE TRANSMIT FROM GENERATION
IN GENERATION THEY ARE LIVING CULTURE. COLLECTIVE MEMORY IS PERCEIVED
THROUGH THE OLD RUMORS THAT HAUNT BUENOS AIRES. MYTHS
URBAN INJECT MYSTERY INTO THE CITY AND MAKE A STORY OF EACH
STREET. THE TRUTHFULNESS OF THE FACTS MATTERS LITTLE. THE
STORIES BECOME OWNERS OF TIME AND REMAIN, BECOME LEGEND ...
SHAKESPEARE
CREOLE. THE ICONIC KAVANAGH BUILDING IS NOTHING LESS THAN THE
RESULT OF REVENGE. AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY, AT THE PALACIO SAN
MARTIN LIVED THE ARISTOCRATIC ANCHORENA, WHO BUILT
THE CHURCH OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT AS A FAMILY GRAVE. ONE OF
FAMILY MEMBERS FELL IN LOVE WITH CORINA KAVANAGH, A WOMAN
OF GOOD ECONOMIC POSITION BUT NOT PATRICIA. FOR THIS REASON,
ANCHORENA DISAPPROVED OF THE ROMANCE AND THE CREOLE ROMEO AND JULIET
THEY HAD TO SEPARATE. AS REVENGE, THE BUENOS AIRES HEROINE SENT
BUILD A MONUMENTAL BUILDING IN SAN MARTÍN AND FLORIDA SO THAT THE
ENEMY FAMILY COULD NOT SEE THE CHURCH FROM THEIR LUXURIOUS PALACE.
ORIGIN MYTH: THIS IS HOW THE LEGENDARY KAVANAGH WAS BORN.
THE
GHOST TRAIN. THE OLDEST SUBWAY NETWORK IN BUENOS AIRES
DATES FROM 1913 AND ALSO HAS A MYTH UNDER HIS ARM. OUR LIGHT BLUE AND
CURRENT SUBWAY LINE A NOW TELLS US ONE OF GHOSTS. AN OLD
OPERATOR OF THE SÁENZ PEÑA STATION WENT TO THE BATHROOM IN HOURS OF
WORK AND THERE SHE FOUND A CUT THROAT MAN WRAPPED IN A CLOAK
OF BLOOD. FILLED WITH HORROR, THE EMPLOYEE SEARCHED FOR STAFF AT
SECURITY TO TELL HIM WHAT HAPPENED. WHEN THE GUARDS ARRIVED AT THE
PLACE OF THE FACTS, THEY FOUND IT IN PERFECT CONDITION AND
THEY ACCUSED THE OPERATOR OF BEING CRAZY. SINCE THIS EPISODE, THE SITUATION HAS
REPEATED REPEATEDLY BUT WITH DIFFERENT PROTAGONISTS: THE
EMPLOYEES CHANGED; THE HALLUCINATION REMAINED ... A GHOST?
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