Fonda de los Tres Reyes

Fonda de los Tres Reyes
Restaurant information
Established c.1800
Closed April 20, 1830
Current owner(s) Juan Bonfillo
City Buenos Aires
Country Argentina

Fonda de los Tres Reyes was an Inn or Tavern that operated in Buenos Aires in the late 18th century and early 19th.[1] Tres Reyes was the main hotel and restaurant in the city during the Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata.[2]

History

The establishment was owned by Juan Bonfillo, a Genoese merchant, who had arrived in the port of Buenos Aires in 1790.[3] Bonfiglio had bought the inn in 1802 to a family of Prieto name,[4] Its facilities were located in the street Santo Cristo (current 25 de Mayo) facing the Plaza Mayor (neighborhood of San Nicolás).[5]

Among his major clients were James Florence Burke, British agent, born in Ireland,[6] and some members of Lautaro Lodge.[7]

During the first British invasion of the River Plate, La Fonda de los Tres Reyes was place of lodging of William Beresford and his officers.[8]

La Fonda de los Tres Reyes was the most exclusive restaurant and hotel in Buenos Aires in the 1800s. This business was in front of the La fonda de La Clara, a inn administered by its owner, the English lady Mary Clark.[9]

Notable clients

References

  1. ↑ Mariquita Sánchez: Vida política y sentimental, María Sáenz Quesada
  2. ↑ Documentos de arquitectura nacional y americana:, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste
  3. ↑ Diario de Buenos Aires: 1806-1807, Alberto Mario Salas
  4. ↑ Todo es historia, Números 265-270, Todo es Historia, 1989
  5. ↑ Artes, ciencias y letras en la América colonial: investigaciones, Roberto Casazza
  6. ↑ Vieytes: El Desterrado, Francisco N. Juárez
  7. ↑ Historia de la nación argentina:, Academia Nacional de la Historia (Argentina), Ricardo Levene
  8. ↑ Boletín de la Academia Nacional de la Historia, Volumen 28, Academia Nacional de la Historia (Argentina)
  9. ↑ El barrio de San Nicolás:, Juan José Cresto
  10. ↑ José de San Martín, libertador de América, Instituto Nacional Sanmartiniano
  11. ↑ Guillermo Brown: apostillas a su vida, Instituto Browniano, 1994
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