Just 50 centimeters below the ground in Buenos Aires‘ posh Palermo neighborhood, there was a piece of the city’s musical history just waiting to be discovered — and no one new it. The Cafe Hansen, called by some “the cradle of tango”, had been lost to the world for over a century now. But this cafe which saw tango rise to fame at the end of the 19th century is being uncovered by a group of archeologists who look to make their finding a way of educating citizens about the city’s history:

“The idea is to keep excavating and take advantage of the discovery to install a hall in which neighbors can get to know the way the city was in those years,” the minister of Culture of the Government of Buenos Aires, Hernán Lombardi, told Argentine newspaper Clarín.

The cafe bore the name of its first owner, Juan Hansen, and is mentioned in historical chronicles as one of the places in which tango began.

BBC Mundo reports that the cafe was originally torn down in 1912 to make room for road infrastructure in the neighborhood.

Via / BBC Mundo