Carrying on with some of the stories which build the mythical Buenos Aires, those which were mentioned in the first part of this post, Hostel Colonial introduces you to three new great Porteño myths. Stories created by popular imaginery, myths based on real stories which become legends, elements of a city full of history, but also full of creation and imagination.La rubia mireya (the immaculate blonde): tall, thin and aristocratic, she’s a mythical carácter mentioned on the tango Tiempos Viejos (Old Times by Canaro and Romero). A character which condensed characteristics of a very common kind of woman in Buenos Aires in the 20s. They used to break tango singers hearts. Some say she was actually inspired by Margarita Verdier, an uruguayan lady from a French family who lived in Almagro, a neighborhood identified with tango.
The baby in the oven: the store begins when a pregnant woman and her husband hire a nanny and, few months after the child is born, they go out to the theater leaving their baby with the maid. When they return, she’s waiting for them in a bride suit and tells them she has prepared a big surprise. In the table of the dinning room, they see they baby roasted in an ovenproof dish. Some say the maid was a mental case scaped from the asylum.The lady in white: an aristocratic man meets a charming young girl in bar. He’s walking her home when she starts to run and dissapears near the Recoleta Cemetery. The man kept a card with the girl’s name and address on it and decides to visit her. Her mother opens the door and tells him she’s been dead for more than six months.
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