THE OLD FLEA MARKET (By Hostel Buenos Aires)

Few places in Buenos Aires keep the charm of antiques as the Old Flea Market. Modern paradise for the vintage fashion, this place in Colegiales neighborhood (in its limit with Palermo Hollywood) is been refurbished and nowadays locates in a governmental property nearby which watches for the old stuffs. Hostel Colonial introduces you to this traditional place where you can find the best and most original objects.

On 1600 Dorrego Street (in the corner of Niceto Vega St.) used to work the Flea Market (popular name for this antiques market) since 1986 until 2005. An old warehouse that is now been refurbished and has temporarily moved to the block of the streets Dorrego, Conde General Martínez and Concepción Arenal. While the old building reforms, this new warehouse keeps offering the objects that everyone is looking for but can’t find so easily.



In this market coexist traditional furnishing antiques, works of art and objects belonging to every time and style you can imagine, in a fusion of bohemia and quality. Sympathetic and nostalgic salesmen mix with the women who read you palm and the curious visitors that wonder endlessly through the corridors. The six corridors are organized by the letters of the word “PULGAS” (fleas in Spanish). In there, you can find from an old pearl necklace that belong to some grandmother to a XX Century oak closet.

Along with the stores, restoring services are offered. But the people who visit it are looking for those special decorative objects you can find nowhere else: old advertisements from traditional or disappeared brands, old toys or funny objects from the 70’s, a world of souvenirs and memories in just one place. For those looking for that unique present and the others who love photogenic spaces, a place you must visit. Tuesdays to Sundays from 10AM to 7PM.