Neighborhood Day in Villa Urquiza

The neighborhood was born on October 2, 1887 under the name of Villa Catalinas. Subsequently, on October 16, 1901, on the centenary of the birth of Justo José de Urquiza, the village adopted the name of the general from Entre Ríos.

Its origin is linked to the Company "Muelle de las Catalinas", located in Paseo de Julio (Leandro N. Alem) and Paraguay. Due to the need to fill with earth that low area, the company decided to buy for that purpose a large piece of land in what is now this neighborhood.

Thus began the transportation of earth to the dock, and once the place was filled, the company decided to sell the remote land, thinking about the layout of a village. Thus, on October 2, 1887, Villa Catalinas was born. Two years later, on April 13, 1889, Las Catalinas station of the Buenos Aires to Rosario Railroad was released to the public.

To the south of the station, between the current Bucarelli, La Pampa, Triunvirato and Olazábal, was Villa Modelo, also an original nucleus, although later and smaller than the current neighborhood.

By decree of October 16, 1901, on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Justo José de Urquiza on the 18th of that month, the town adopted the name of the general from Entre Ríos. The change of denomination of the same one was due to a request of its settlers.

On March 3, 1893 the primitive chapel of Nuestra Señora del Carmen was inaugurated, on which the new temple would be erected in the course of the years.

Finally, it is worth mentioning that in the land between Miller, Monroe and Valdenegro Streets, and the tracks of the Bartolomé Mitre Railroad, there was a cemetery since 1875. It was closed on March 23rd, 1898, and the present Marcos Sastre Square, whose remains had rested precisely in that necropolis, was built on part of that land.