The "Club Portugues del Gran Buenos Aires" celebrated its 48th anniversary on Sunday, August 23, at 1:00 PM, bringing together around 600 people at the Virgem de Fátima Hall in La Matanza. The celebration included a flag parade from various communities, including Italian, Slovenian, Croatian, Bolivian, Paraguayan, and Israeli, who joined Portugal in this event. Among those present were Jorge Longa Márquez from the Consular Section, María Isabel Gaspar from the Camões Institute, Councilor Martín D. Oliveira, Luis Lubeck president of the European Club, and presidents of various Portuguese institutions in the province of Buenos Aires.
Portuguese gastronomy was present with traditional dishes such as chouriço à portuguesa, cod with potatoes, and lemon chicken with mixed salad. Music and dance were also part of the celebration, with the ethnographic group Mocidade Portuguesa brightening the afternoon with their dances and traditions. From Argentina came a group of seven medical students from the University of Porto who, for a week, lived at the club and brought the voice of fado to Argentina.
The author of the article is Víctor Manuel Rodrígues Passos Estanqueiro, president of the Federation of Portuguese Associations of Argentina and president of the Club Portugues del Gran Buenos Aires. The article describes the institution as a construction made of memories, hugs, and generations, which transformed the memory of a distant land into a living presence in the heart of La Matanza for almost half a century.
