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The borough of Recoleta is home to a number of places of interest, including the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Biblioteca Nacional, the Centro Cultural Recoleta, the Faculty of Law of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, the Basílica Nuestra Señora de Pilar, the Palais de Glace, the Café La Biela and the Cementerio de la Recoleta, where ...
Pirámide de Mayo; Plaza Canadá (Buenos Aires) Plaza de la República (Buenos Aires) Plaza de Mayo; Plaza del Congreso; Plaza Dorrego; Plaza Intendente Alvear; Plaza Italia, Buenos Aires; Plaza Vicente López y Planes; Puente de la Mujer; Punto Obelisco
The Obelisk (Spanish: Obelisco de Buenos Aires) is one of the city's most famous landmarks and a venue for various cultural activities and other events. It is placed at the heart of Buenos Aires. Porteños refer to it simply as El Obelisco. The obelisk was built in May 1936 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first founding of the city.
The Cueva de las Manos, literally "the cave of hands", in Río Pinturas contains an exceptional assemblage of prehistoric cave art created by hunter-gatherer communities. In addition to the numerous stencils of human hands, there are depictions of people, plants, hunting scenes, and animals, in particular guanacos that are still present in the ...
Cicerones de Buenos Aires is the name of a non-profit organization that provides free guided tours and travel information to visitors of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Founded in May 2001 by residents of Buenos Aires, the organization's mission is to improve the image of the city though its services.
Santos Lugares is a town in the southeast of the partido of Tres de Febrero. It is part of the urban agglomeration of Greater Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires Province, northwest of the Buenos Aires city proper. According to the 2001 census , Santos Lugares had 17,023 inhabitants.
The bank maintained over 2,500 accounts by the end of its first year, and in 1907, it was listed on the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange and garnered nearly 3,300 initial shareholders. The Buenos Aires branches were followed by one in neighboring Montevideo, Uruguay , in 1910, and in 1921, it began offering time deposits (which remain the most ...
The palatial mansion is known officially as Casa de Gobierno ("House of Government" or "Government House"). Normally, the president lives at the Quinta de Olivos, the president of Argentina's official residence, located in Olivos, Greater Buenos Aires. The characteristic color of the Casa Rosada is baby pink, and it is considered one of the ...