{"id":738,"date":"2009-04-13T13:07:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T16:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=738"},"modified":"2009-04-13T13:07:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T16:07:13","slug":"330-alfredo-giusti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"330. alfredo giusti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Alfredo Giusti, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200902D15.jpg\" alt=\"Alfredo Giusti, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A single plaque states that Alfredo Giusti was the director &amp; president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/farmaciadelaestrella.com\/\">Droguer\u00eda de la Estrella<\/a> for almost half a century, from 1906 to 1950:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Alfredo Giusti, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200807B24.jpg\" alt=\"Alfredo Giusti, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the oldest surviving business in Buenos Aires, the <strong>Droguer\u00eda de la Estrella<\/strong> sits one block from Plaza de Mayo on the corner of Alsina &amp; Defensa. The shop also has the distinction of being the first pharmacy in the city when it opened in 1834. Then known as the <strong>Farmacia de la Estrella<\/strong>, its location across the street from the Iglesia de San Francisco began a trend&#8230; all early pharmacies were placed near churches so patrons could use their bell towers as beacons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Farmacia de la Estrella, Buenos Aires\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200903E14.jpg\" alt=\"Farmacia de la Estrella, Buenos Aires\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1969, the building was saved from demolition &amp; pharmacy murals restored to their original condition. Currently, the <strong>Museo de la Ciudad<\/strong> occupies the upper floor &amp; uses some of the storefront for window displays about life in Buenos Aires:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Farmacia de la Estrella, Buenos Aires\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200903E15.jpg\" alt=\"Farmacia de la Estrella, Buenos Aires\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A single plaque states that Alfredo Giusti was the director &amp; president of the Droguer\u00eda de la Estrella for almost half a century, from 1906&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=738\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">330. alfredo giusti<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}