"El Mercado", is an old market on Vicente Lopez 1652, which opened in 1900. It no longer works as a market, but in the past this used to be one of the many markets which served as a meeting place for the city of Buenos Aires. A truly neuralgic spot in the city. As years passed by the markets changed.. Some of them remain working as proper markets, such as the Mercado del Progreso in Caballito and the Mercado San Telmo, but many others disappeared. The "El Mercado", fortunately, has been preserved by a law recently passed by the local Buenos Aires government. The original structure is to be maintained and unchanged.
