Campanopolis, named after the surname of its founder, Don Antonio Campana has an incredible history, where dreams and effort have an indecipherable link with art and the emotion of achievements.
The village with a medieval spirit was dreamed, designed and built by Don Antonio Campana, who without having architectural studies made his dream come true, on a 200-hectare property with plains, jungle forests, rivers, streams, lakes.
The story goes that almost 40 years ago this dream began in a plot of land acquired in 1976 where old tosqueras were previously exploited, the product of which was used for the construction of the bases of the runways of the Ezeiza International Airport and the Richeri highway.Later, the site was expropriated by CEAMSE (Ecological Belt Metropolitan Area Society of the State), which used it for more than five years as a sanitary landfill, leaving a legacy of environmental contamination.
Don Antonio enters into a long legal battle to recover the property. At the same time, he suffers from various health problems and, faced with this, he decides to make an important turn in his life, boosting his desire to live with his desire to make his dream come true, made true today with this beautiful legacy.
Discovering himself as a creator and designer, with a very broad criterion of recycling and creativity, he made use of leftovers from demolitions to build a new world on the chaos that had reigned until then, giving birth to this magical village, also restoring the ecological balance.
History before the Village
The village grounds hide an important past.According to the historian Don Alfonso Corso, interpreting the accounts of the German Ulrico Schmidl, official scribe of Don Pedro De Mendoza in 1536, at the confluence of the Morales stream with the Matanza River, the first foundation of Buenos Aires was made. In the place there is as a tribute "El Palo de la Justicia", in memory of the historical founding feat of one of the most important cities in America.In his chronicles Ulrich narrates: "... that whoever wanted to eat a fish had to walk 4 miles..." From this it can be deduced that the Poblacion o Real – as it was then called – was not located on the banks of the Río de la Plata but at some distance from it.
It is precisely the confluence of water between the Arroyo Morales (small river) and the Matanzas River (large river) to which Ulrico refers. This foundational area is within the lands of Campanopolis.
Ulrico's diaries are an important source when it comes to clarifying the debated location of the original City of Buenos Aires. This traveler considered to be the first "Historian of the Río de la Plata" points out: "... Mendoza established the Real next to a small river that enters the big river..."
Corso affirms that, later these lands belonged to Don Juan Manuel de Rosas, who built for this purpose the oldest building dating back to approximately 1840, which was inhabited by a foreman (stallholder) of the Brigadier General.This historic house has a characteristic construction of the time, in the shape of an "L", built with characteristic bricks settled with adobe or mud, its walls reach 60 centimeters wide, which have embrasures through which its inhabitants took out their firearms to defend themselves from the malones of Indians or attacks of foreigners. It also has a basement that was used as a shelter against possible attacks, this being the only construction on these lands.
