Ciudad de La Plata

La Plata

Is the capital of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is often nicknamed as the City of the diagonals. In this city you can find the unique stadium of The La plata.This is a fantastic stadium. 

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La Catedral

 

The Metropolitan Cathedral of La Plata "Immaculate Conception" is the main Catholic church in the city of La Plata. It is one of the largest in Latin America.

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 Museo de Ciencias Naturales  

The Museum of La Plata is a natural history museum located in the city of La Plata. It is part of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Museum of the UNLP. The construction of the museum was completed in 1889 .

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Places to visit in Buenos Aires

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La Boca

La Boca

It is a neighborhood of the City of Buenos Aires (Federal Capital), Argentina. Located in the southeast of the city limits. His name is because is located at the mouth of the Riachuelo in the Rio de la Plata. It is characterized as a neighborhood which housed many tourists therefore shared a variety of ways. Its architecture was characterized as tenements where family lived and which coexisted in different habitanciones but in one place. These tenements were very colorful.

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History

The area is currently La Boca was the place where Pedro de Mendoza made ​​the first foundation of Buenos Aires in 1536. In times of colonial Spanish La Boca was a barracks area for black slaves. In the period worked there saladeros independent (sheds that was salted beef for export).


As the area of ​​greater entry of ships in the late nineteenth century began to be inhabited by Italian immigrants, mostly Genoese, who gave it its current appearance. Immigrants were grouped in tenements and painted their houses with leftover paint that brought the sailors.

La Boca, 1870 already had a characteristic physiognomy and in 1895 was the second section of the Capital. In a population of 38,000 inhabitants, 17,000 were from Argentina, 14,000 Italians, 2,500 Spanish and the rest from other countries.

Residents of La Boca and by extension his football team, the popular Boca Juniors, is still known as the Xeneizes (deformation "zeneizi" ie Genoese, in their own dialect). Immigrants built houses of corrugated metal sheets, often mounted on piles or footings high due to frequent flooding, and brightly painted.

Typical places of La Boca

Classical buildings in La Boca

Caminito street

This Street is a traditional museum and a passage of great cultural and tourism, located in the La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The place acquired cultural significance because the music that inspired the famous tango Caminito

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Riachuelo

The Matanza-Riachuelo river, called Riachuelo river at its mouth and Slaughter on most of its development, is a stream of 64 km to the east of Argentina, who was born in the province of Buenos Aires, is the southern boundary of the city ​​of Buenos Aires and empties into the Rio de la Plata. This name originates mouth neighborhood of La Boca. The Matanza-Riachuelo Basin is located to the northeast of the province of Buenos Aires. To the north borders the Reconquista River Basin, south and west by the Salado River Basin and to the east by the Rio de la Plata. It is approximately 60 km and a general direction southwest-northeast, and an average width of 35 m, covering an area of ​​2200 km ² to the mouth of the Rio de La Plata.

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Places to visit in Rosario

City of Rosario

Rosario is located in central-west of Argentina, in the province of Santa Fe, is the third most populated city in the country,
 Rosario is known as the Cradle of the Argentina Flag, being his most famous building the Monument to the Flag.

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Monument to the flag

Since the late XIX century started to plan the building of a monument to pay tribute to Belgrano for giving the fledgling nation flag. On June 20, 1957 was inaugurated with a massive frame the National Flag Monument, designed by architect and engineer Guido Angel. Covers an area of 10,000 m² and contains three main parts: the central tower, the Propileo Triunfal of the Fatherland and Honor Gallery of American Flags and Civic Monumental Staircase connecting the two corps arquitectónicos.10 June 1957, by the Decree 4901, is set June 20, 1957 as the official date of the inauguration of the National Flag Monument in Rosario.

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 Catedral de nuestra señora de Rosario 

The Cathedral Basilica Sanctuary of Our Lady of Rosario is a minor basilica and cathedral dedicated to the Virgin of Rosario, Rosario, Santa Fe province in Argentina. Basilica is located in the oldest part of the city, in 789 Buenos Aires street, next to the Palace of the Lions, municipal government headquarters in the city, in front of Plaza 25 de Mayo. Between the two buildings is the passage Juramento.La first parish was built on this site in 1731. An image of the Virgin of the Rosary was brought from Cadiz, Spain in 1773. On 20 April 1934con the canonical erection of the Diocese of Montreal, was officially named Cathedral. And went to Basilica October 7 1966.La basilica dates from the late s. XIX. His altar is from Italy and was made with Carrara marble.

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