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The Obelisco de Buenos Aires (Obelisk of Buenos Aires) is a national historic monument and icon of Buenos Aires. Located in the Plaza de la República in the intersection of avenues Corrientes and 9 de Julio , it was erected in 1936 to commemorate the quadricentennial of the first foundation of the city .
The ramp was secured by stone walls. Men raised the obelisk by slowly removing the sand while three crews of men pulled on ropes to control its descent into the pit. The back wall was designed to guide the obelisk into its proper place. The obelisk had to catch a turning groove which would prevent it from sliding.
Made of red granite, the obelisk stands about 21 metres (69 ft) high, weighs about 200 tons, [4] and is inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs.Originally erected in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis on the orders of Thutmose III, in 1475 BC, [4] the obelisk's granite was mined from the quarries of Aswan near the first cataract of the Nile.
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The Obelisk of Montecitorio (Italian: Obelisco di Montecitorio), also known as Solare, is an ancient Egyptian, red granite obelisk of Psamtik II (595–589 BC) from Heliopolis. Brought to Rome with the Flaminio Obelisk in 10 BC by the Roman Emperor Augustus to be used as the gnomon of the Solarium Augusti , it is now in the Piazza Montecitorio .
The obelisk was first erected during the 18th dynasty by Pharaoh Thutmose III (1479–1425 BC) to the south of the seventh pylon of the great temple of Karnak.The Roman emperor Constantius II (337–361 AD) had it and another obelisk transported along the river Nile to Alexandria to commemorate his ventennalia or 20 years on the throne in 357.
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The London needle is in the City of Westminster, on the Victoria Embankment near the Golden Jubilee Bridges. In 1819, Muhammad Ali Pasha gave Britain the fallen obelisk as a gift. However, Britain's prime minister at the time, Lord Liverpool , hesitated on having it brought to the country due to shipping expenses.