Flores, Buenos Aires

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**Flores**
Area	8.1 km²
Population	150,484 (2001)
Density	18,578/km²
Comuna	C7


Important sites	Plaza Flores Basílica de San José de Flores

Flores is a middle class barrio or district in the centre part of Buenos Aires city, Argentina. Flores was considered a rural area of the Province of Buenos Aires until 1888 when it was integrated to the City.

The limits of the neighbourhood are marked by several streets and avenues: Portela, Cuenca, Av. Gaona, Av. Donato Alvarez, Curapaligüe, Av. Directorio, Av. Carabobo, Av. Castañares, Torres y Tenorio, Av. Riestra, Av. Perito Moreno, Av. Castañares, Lacarra and Av. Luis J. Dellepiane.

Flores was mainly composed of country houses from the wealthy people of the City of Buenos Aires. Today, remains of those houses can still be found, including the house owned by Juan Manuel de Rosas, the Governor of the Province around the 19th century.

This neighbourhood's commerce is centered around the train station and the nearby parish church, Basílica de San José de Flores, dating from 1831, which has a romanticist architectural style.

A fictitious mythology of the neighborhood was created by author Alejandro Dolina, centered around the grey angel of Flores. A famous tango song, San José de Flores, centers around the sorrow of a man returning to the barrio after a long and tumultuous absence.

The Pueyrredón theatre was a famous ballroom, where Edmundo Rivero gained fame in the 1930s, and was also an oft-used venue by early Argentine rock bands such as Almendra.