Feria de Mataderos

This guide to Feria de Mataderos in Buenos Aires starts under a colonnade built to weigh cattle, not sell crafts, for the national livestock market that gave this neighborhood its name. It traces the decline of that market through the 1980s and the day in June 1986 when Sara Vinocur set up a fair here instead, recruiting real artisans and folk musicians to keep gaucho culture alive. Watch for the sortija riders galloping past on the avenue outside, reaching up at full speed to spear a tiny hanging ring.