I was walking down the Avenida de Mayo, She looked so cute ... decorated in blue and white for the celebration of Flag Day, it looks according to the World Cup feeling that breathes through these times.
was the first avenue of the country and throughout South America. Multi-stage events and patriotic celebrations, the Avenida de Mayo was inaugurated on July 8, 1894 with a march of 500 torches.
Its design was based on traditional Parisian boulevards, although the English immigration was making its mark with such force that eventually won the characterization Hispanic role in the aesthetics of this pathway, spine center Buenos Aires history.
trace In all his 10 blocks were traditional locations are cafés and buildings that survive today.
Café Tortoni,
Founded in 1858 by a French immigrant, is the oldest café in Buenos Aires. Is in its location Current since 1880. Four decades later, the Tortoni was already a meeting place for intellectuals in Buenos Aires. Inside the coffee-usually full of locals and foreigners, pictures, poems and busts realize its history. The Tortoni
shows are jazz and tango, the background you can play pool. Their menu still some drinks at sunset, like meringue.
shows are jazz and tango, the background you can play pool. Their menu still some drinks at sunset, like meringue.
Barolo Palace
The Barolo Palace was built by Italian architect Mario Palanti Luis Barolo, a powerful textile businessman. Opened in 1923, each floor has a different design and central dome reaches the height of a floor 24. For many years, is an office building. Its dome is a beacon of 300,000 candles were spread that news.
Palanti was a student of Dante Alighieri, the building, romantic neo-Gothic style, is full of analogies and references to the Divine Comedy. The floor of the building is constructed based on the golden section and the golden number. As the Comedy, the Palace is divided into three parts: Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. The lighthouse represents the nine choirs of angels. On the lighthouse is the constellation Southern Cross, which is aligned with the axis of Barolo in early June at 19:45. Building height is a hundred yards and a hundred are the songs of the Divine Comedy. The Palacio Salvo, Montevideo, is the twin brother of Barolo.
Palanti was a student of Dante Alighieri, the building, romantic neo-Gothic style, is full of analogies and references to the Divine Comedy. The floor of the building is constructed based on the golden section and the golden number. As the Comedy, the Palace is divided into three parts: Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. The lighthouse represents the nine choirs of angels. On the lighthouse is the constellation Southern Cross, which is aligned with the axis of Barolo in early June at 19:45. Building height is a hundred yards and a hundred are the songs of the Divine Comedy. The Palacio Salvo, Montevideo, is the twin brother of Barolo.
Avenue Theatre
Inaugurated in 1908 with a work by Lope de Vega. Zarzuelas of Avenue was a classic in Buenos Aires until, by fire, the theater was closed in 1979. The reopening was in 1994, featuring English singer Placido Domingo.
Currently, the theater retains its English dramatic tradition.
Currently, the theater retains its English dramatic tradition.
institutional destinations of our country have this avenue as first character, and in their ends are located to the east the Casa Rosada (Government House) and to the west, the National Congress building.
But his story does not manifest itself only on the surface, underneath it, circle the first underground line of the city, opened in December 1913, is also the first of the entire southern hemisphere.
addition, it is cut in half by the Avenida 9 de Julio, another traditional artery of the city which is called the Obelisk, a monument built to commemorate the fourth centenary the first foundation of Buenos Aires.
Sometimes the trouble, concerns or just walk through distraction makes places like this without paying attention they deserve, fortunately this day I found all the lights and my camera in hand.
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