Mercado de San Telmo

This guide to Mercado de San Telmo in Buenos Aires opens with the 1871 yellow fever epidemic that emptied the neighborhood of its wealthiest families, and the immigrant dockworkers who moved into the abandoned mansions left behind. You'll hear how the city hired Italian-born architect Juan Antonio Buschiazzo in 1897 to raise an iron-and-glass market hall for them, built the way train stations rose across Europe at the time. Look up at the trusses overhead as you listen for how the market's purpose has shifted since.