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Casa Rosada
The lot in which the Casa Rosada is placed was a head office of the successive political authorities that led the country.
After found the City of Buenos Aires in 1580, Juan de Garay ordered to dig a trench and terraces formed with the same grounds extracted from it. In 1595, a wall of 120 meters got up on the hills that then were by the river. Finally, in 1700 there was constructed a solid fortress, which lasted up to its demolition, one century and a half later.
Let and partially destroyed, Casa Rosada had leading role again since 1862, when the President Bartolomé Mitre settled with his ministers, improving the ancient official residence of the fortress. His successor, Sarmiento, decided to beautify the residence of the National Government, providing it with gardens and painting the fronts pink, which kept on characterizing it.
The construction of the current House of Government began in 1873, when for decree was arranged the construct of Post office and Telegraphs at the corner of Balcarce and Hipólito Yrigoyen. A few years later, the president Julio A. Roca decided the construction of the definitive Palace of Government at the corner of Balcarce and Rivadavia. The building was similar to the neighbor Post office and Telegraphs. Both buildings joined in 1886 by the construction of the entrance you can see today towards Plaza de Mayo.
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<div class="txt_04 gold">Casa Rosada</div>The lot in which the Casa Rosada is placed was a head office of the successive political authorities that led the country.<br /> After found the City of Buenos Aires in 1580, Juan de Garay ordered to dig a trench and terraces formed with the same grounds extracted from it. In 1595, a wall of 120 meters got up on the hills that then were by the river. Finally, in 1700 there was constructed a solid fortress, which lasted up to its demolition, one century and a half later.<br /> Let and partially destroyed, Casa Rosada had leading role again since 1862, when the President Bartolomé Mitre settled with his ministers, improving the ancient official residence of the fortress. His successor, Sarmiento, decided to beautify the residence of the National Government, providing it with gardens and painting the fronts pink, which kept on characterizing it.<br /> The construction of the current House of Government began in 1873, when for decree was arranged the construct of Post office and Telegraphs at the corner of Balcarce and Hipólito Yrigoyen. A few years later, the president Julio A. Roca decided the construction of the definitive Palace of Government at the corner of Balcarce and Rivadavia. The building was similar to the neighbor Post office and Telegraphs. Both buildings joined in 1886 by the construction of the entrance you can see today towards Plaza de Mayo. <div class="txt_04 gold">National Congress</div>The architecture of the building of the Honorable Congreso de la Nación had his origin in the projects that were carried out in 1895. There met to this contest 28 architects, both Argentine and foreign, some of which were residing permanently in our country..<br /> " ... as magnificent bottom of Avenida de Mayo rise... the proud Palace of the National Congress, project of Víctor Meano. It is of the most noble Greco-Roman style, with perfect proportions, offering an aspect of severe and elegant magnificence. ".<br /> Meano’s project suscribes absolutely to the architectural current that he recognizes like fundamental to three central ideas: the academicism, the eclecticism and the classicism. This tripartite condition confirms it as work of typical architecture, we can say paradigmatic of the epoch of his creation: the end of the XIXth century, and the first decades of the XXth century. <div class="txt_04 gold">Obelisk</div>With its 67 m. of high (adjective to 32 floors of a standard building), his base of 7x7 meters, his original revetment of white stone of oláen extracted from mines in the saws of Córdoba, his hollow structure of concrete, for whose interior promotes a stairs of iron of 342 steps towards four windows in the apex and his invisible lightning rod for the pedestrians; the obelisk was imposed as the soul of Buenos Aires citizens, turning into one of the symbols most typical of our civil identity.<br /> Its works began in 1936 when the Plaza de la República was constructed. And there got up the Obelisk as the homage of Buenos Aires to the Fourth Centenary of its First Foundation and it was representing the spirit of progress, wich rule that epoch.<br /> The design was was made by Architect Alberto Prebish, and it was trying to solve with elegance and monumental character the triple crossing of two of the most important avenues of the city, to which the North Diagonal was joining, recently constructed. It was formally inaugurated on May 23, 1936 at 3 p.m.. <div class="txt_04 gold">Metropolitan Cathedral</div>The first cathedral of Buenos Aires got up in 1622. The current building, after one century and a half of works, ended in 1822. In its inside there are pictures and sculptures of Italian artists, principally.<br /> In a mausoleum rest the remains of General José de San Martín, one of the heroes of the independence. <div class="txt_04 gold">Puerto Madero Area</div>Until 1770, more than 60 projects of ports had been proposed out of the area of the Riachuelo. In 1872, there are constructed the wharf and the deposits Las Catalinas. Finished this, the government proposes the creation of a finished port. Between the projects emphasize those made by Eduardo Madero and Luis Huergo, being defined by the presentation of Madero finished on March 31, 1898, although his creator died 5 years earlier. Then, appear the need of deposits to keep the grains that were exported and the construction of Docks where the vessels would anchor. That’s why these enormous Docks of reddish bricks are constructed, between 1900 and 1905, with three or four stages and cellar.<br /> In 1989, is created Puerto Madero Corporation to urbanize 170 hectares of the old Port. From the national contest of ideas to recycle it the Docks became alive again, finding from restaurants up to offices, university institutes theatres and houses.

     
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