Every Sunday, the main street in San Telmo is closed to traffic and opened to stalls selling all the Argentina-related knick-knacks you could desire. Popular with locals and tourists alike it’s one of the essential experiences Buenos Aires has to offer.
La Feria de San Telmo
HOLY MOSES! I have been there twice and have never seen it so crowded. Now I feel really lucky!
To be honest it didn’t feel any busier than any other Sunday! Maybe it’s the angle the photo is taken from? Is that called foreshortening?
I will be visiting Bueno Aires by end of this year, and really keen to enjoy the crowd in San Telmo, it is really excited for me to be part of the crowd, never experience in my home country before:)
SImon
Well, the photo shows the long street — but of course the heart of the ‘flea market’ if that’s what it is (‘antique’ is pretentious, no?) is the little square. It always amuses me the name of streets there: “Umberto Primo” — where Umberto, as I recall, spells with an “H”! I agree with Jonathan that after Costanera Sud, Telmo is second tops!