Street Art & Architecture - San Telmo

After seeing a little bit of San Telmo on Sunday, I really wanted to return during the week and just wander around soaking up the neighborhood and its architecture.  I had read about street art in San Telmo and wanted to check that out with my camera.  There is a walking street art tour that I read about but it is 3 1/2 hrs long and doesn't start until 1 p.m.  The weather is way too hot for that now. I couldn't actually find a map of where the various street art is exactly located but I picked up a few ideas about where to start looking.  So, we were out of the apartment a little after 10 this morning and headed to San Telmo on our no. 61 bus again.

We wandered around on a number of different streets including Estados Unidos, Chile, Defensa and others  and we found some interesting art and enjoyed the varied architecture.  Along the way, we ran into the old San Telmo Market - kind of down at the heels but it still had some nice looking produce and a clean meat counter along with various antique stores with lots of kitsch thrown in.  I loved walking around the streets of San Telmo soaking up the feel.  This neighborhood definitely has more life than Recoleta.

A funny thing happened on one of my stops to photograph a building across the street.  We were both backed up to the building behind us and I was getting ready to take a picture when I felt something warm on the back of my arm - turning around there were two doggies silently checking us out.  They had very strange eyes:

 I think I would like to stay around here if we ever came back.  We walked past lots of interesting little restaurants and after we had had enough of the heat and humidity, we decided to have lunch at Desnivel, a restaurant we had heard of on Defensa.

The Quilmes tasted especially good as we waited for our lunch.  We had decided to try the Asado de Tira - beef ribs and a mixed salad - we split one order of each which was a good thing.  The meat tasted really good but it was extremely chewy - won't try that again.  The salad and bread were excellent.  A couple at the next table had steaks which looked fabulous - we'll try that next time - if there is a next time.

By this time it was really getting warm so we headed towards home and detoured over to the Freddo (ice cream) store near the Recoleta cemetery and ordered a couple of Capuccino shakes - expensive but yummy.  It was really a fun and interesting excursion today.  I took a lot of pictures so you might want to click on the link below to view them.  The first pictures are of the street art we found followed by architecture and the neighborhood.  I hope your like them.

                                SAN TELMO STREET ART & ARCHITECTURE PICTURES