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The park was then renamed as the Parque de la Ciudad (City Park) in December of that year. [4] The park itself failed to attract the 15 million yearly visitors projected by the city. Annual attendance reached 1.1 million in 1985, and declined afterward. [4] The addition of an IMAX cinema was later planned, but was ultimately canceled.
A la Ciudad de Londres was a traditional European department store, which operated in Buenos Aires from 1872 to 1922. [1] It was the first large clothing store established in the city of Buenos Aires towards the end of the 19th century.
That year, he set sail with a considerable fleet, but a terrible storm scattered it off the coast of Brazil. Here his lieutenant, Juan de Osorio, was assassinated, according to some authorities by the orders of Mendoza himself because of suspected disloyalty. Mendoza sailed up the Río de la Plata in 1535 and founded Buenos Aires on February 2 ...
Other notable works in the collection include Abaporu (1928) by Tarsila do Amaral, bought in 1995 for almost $1.5 million; Baile en Tehuantepec (1928) by Diego Rivera, for which Costantini paid $15.7 million at Phillips in 2016; [6] and La Grande Dame (The Cat Woman, 1951), a sculpture by Leonora Carrington purchased for $11.3 million in 2024.
Avellaneda (Latin American Spanish: [aβeʝaˈneða], local pronunciation: [aβeʃaˈneða]) is a port city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the seat of the Avellaneda Partido, whose population was 342,677 as per the 2010 census [].
Floralis Genérica is a sculpture made of steel and aluminum located in Plaza de las Naciones Unidas, Avenida Figueroa Alcorta, Buenos Aires, a gift to the city by the Argentine architect Eduardo Catalano. Catalano once said that the flower "is a synthesis of all the flowers and, at the same time, a hope reborn every day at opening."
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Aerial view of the building, with the face of Eva Perón.. The Ministry of Public Works Building (Spanish: Edificio del Ministerio de Obras Públicas), now known as the Ministry of Health Building (Spanish: Edificio del Ministerio de Salud) is a public building in the rationalist style located on the intersection of 9 de Julio Avenue and Belgrano Avenue, in the neighborhood of Monserrat, in ...