{"id":76166,"date":"2022-03-21T08:13:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T11:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/argentinaxp.com\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=76166"},"modified":"2022-03-21T08:13:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T11:13:37","slug":"el-federal-bar-mas-antiguo-en-funcionamiento-de-la-ciudad-de-buenos-aires","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/blog.argxp.com\/en\/blog\/el-federal-bar-mas-antiguo-en-funcionamiento-de-la-ciudad-de-buenos-aires\/","title":{"rendered":"El Federal \u2013 The oldest bar in operation in the city of Buenos Aires"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"76177\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.argxp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/el-federal.jpg-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76177\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"76175\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.argxp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/e269ae1a53e5bb158419628cdb1fd2eb-1-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76175\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"76174\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.argxp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/BL2OOFGU7ZD5LK5IJGMVEQTHNQ-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76174\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>the federal<\/strong> It opened its doors in 1864, when San Telmo was a labyrinth of tenements and rental houses where blacks and poor immigrants, especially those from Italy, found shelter.<br \/><strong>the federal<\/strong> Toward the end of the 19th century, it was a brothel and then a warehouse with a drinks office until, in the early years of the 20th century, it definitively became the bar-caf\u00e9 that continues to this day.<br \/><br \/>It was born as a grocery store in 1864 on two dirt streets, the same corner of <strong>Peru and Carlos Calvo<\/strong>, through which carriages and horses circulated at that time.<br \/><br \/>Years later, the general store was a warehouse and it was common knowledge that on the top floor of the building, right where the drinks warehouse is now, there was a clandestine brothel, then called <strong>\u00abcasa de tolerancia\u00bb<\/strong> either <strong>\u00abde las mujeres p\u00fablicas\u00bb<\/strong>.<br \/><br \/>They say that formerly <strong>the federal<\/strong> a &quot;grocery store&quot; operated, where good Spanish sardines, original Izmir figs and excellent Italian olive oil were available. Today they would be called delicatessen.<br \/><br \/>In the early years of the twentieth century it was remodeled with its current appearance and works as it does today. When digging the well to place the current bar, buried corpses were found, probable victims of the terrible yellow fever epidemic that affected Buenos Aires in 1871. Another dramatic event would have occurred on the site when the daughter of the owner of the premises was murdered by her boyfriend, when he found out that his fianc\u00e9e was unfaithful.<br \/><br \/>Various films have been filmed in its facilities such as &quot;Cafet\u00edn de Buenos Aires&quot;, &quot;El Tango tells its story&quot;, &quot;Custodio de se\u00f1oras&quot; and &quot;From the Abyss&quot;.<br \/><br \/>Today <strong>the federal<\/strong> is part of the declared <strong>Notable Bars in the City of Buenos Aires<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":76176,"template":"","blog-categoria":[43],"class_list":["post-76166","blog","type-blog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","blog-categoria-historia-e-historias"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>El Federal - El bar m\u00e1s antiguo en la ciudad de buenos aires<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"El Federal naci\u00f3 en 1864 en Per\u00fa y Carlos Calvo. 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