Rescate arqueológico. Hotel Pensión Europea. Posadas. Misiones. Argentina

Abstract

The present work exposes the archaeological actions carried out in an urban context, through a patrimonial rescue. The Department of Historic Heritage, Urban Planning Department, Strategic and Territorial Planning Department of the Municipality of the city of Posadas (Misiones), requests the Historical and Archaeological Museum “Andrés Guacurarí”, the archaeological intervention when the discovery of a structure in Medium of a work under construction, carried out by the construction company Giovinazzo SA. The city of Posadas begins a process of urbanization at the beginning of century XX, by which, the landscape is transformed, as well as the life of its inhabitants. This growth implied the need to have appropriate places for travelers, remember that it is a border city and administrative center of the then national territory of Misiones. The structure found in the center of the city, on land that nowadays is located at the intersection of Buenos Aires and Santa Fe streets, was linked to a cistern belonging to the Hotel Pensión Europea.