Originally they were spontaneous popular demonstrations that, around the drums, called for the meeting, a tour through the streets to the rhythm of the candombe and its dance. Until 1956 these parades started from their natural redoubts, the conventillos, where almost all the black families of Uruguay lived, especially the two most famous, the Mediomundo and Ansina tenements, in the Palermo and Sur neighborhoods. These conventillos were closed and demolished in the decade of the 1970s.