Tradition Day

November 10, Sunday

Día de la Tradición (Tradition Day) is celebrated in Argentina on November 10, the birthday of Argentine poet José Hernández (1834-1886), who wrote, among others, the narrative poem El gaucho Martín Fierro and its continuation, La vuelta de Martín Fierro, stories in verse form of the experience of a gaucho, his lifestyle, customs, language, and codes of honor.

Francisco Timpone proposed the idea of the holiday on December 13, 1937, in a meeting of the association named Bases, an institution that paid tribute to Juan Bautista Alberdi and was based in La Plata, provincia de Buenos Aires.

On June 6, 1938, the association presented a note to the Buenos Aires City Legislature requesting that they declare November 10 "Día de la Tradición", for the birth on that date of José Hernández. The note proposed the civic pilgrimage to the Gaucho Ricardo Güiraldes Museum, in San Antonio de Areco, in homage and as an effective consecration of that day.

Tradition Day