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| Detalle de una acuerela de Vidal de princiapios del siglo XIX donde se ve la Plaza de Toros |
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Opportunity to know a scenario of important historical episodes, surrounded of imposing buildings. Also, the Pedestrian Florida, the main center of purchases of Buenos Aires.
Pedestrian journey of 2 hours, for any day of the week.
Underground parking under the square or in parquímetros around the same one. Excellent gastronomic options.
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The environment of the square San Martin calls himself Neighborhood of The Retiro, to have been the place of a hermit's refuge, when everything was field and wild animals. That had built San Sebastian's Hermitage, there for the XVI century. The center of the neighborhood is the Square San Martin.
The square possesses two characteristic situations: the ravine of moderate slope and covered with grass, with beautiful view to the port, where the public couches to take sun in spring and summer; from behind the plane part is, with big groves and dense shade, traveled by wide skirted sidewalks of banks.
In the square it highlights the Monument to the General Liberator San Martin.
In the surroundings of the square they were built big to important mansions (some disappeared today) that nuclearon to outstanding families and personalities of the banking, the trade and the culture. Their description will be made a contrario sensu to the turn of the clock. In Esmeralda's corner and Arenales the Palacio is San Martin.
On the faced corner, the building that gathers the rest of the offices of the Ministry rises. The walk continues rotating around the square.
The next landmark is Av. Santa Fe, in the Av. Santa Fe and square San Martin is the Palacio Paz.
In corner of Maipú the palace harbors the Museum of Weapons of the Nation .
The residence located in a small triangle defined by the Av. Santa Faith, Maipú and Marcelo T of Alvear, is the current building of the Administration of National Parks.
Then it is the beginning of the pedestrian street Florida, descripta at the end of this Walk. To the side, the Plaza Hotel.
The Passage Corina Kavanagh (at the end of the Square Hotel) it finishes off in the Basilica Of the Sacred Sacramento.
Returning to the square, the immediate building to the Square Hotel is the Building Kavanagh.
Lowering the ravine smoothly and skirting the square San Martin, you arrives to the Monument to the Heroes of the Guerra of the Malvinas, a wide frieze inaugurated in 1990 that takes engraving in stone blocks the names of all the dead combatants in the war of Malvinas 1982.
AI front is the square Air force Argentina, former square Britannia, where stands out The Tower Monumentar(ex-tower of the Englishmen), to the left of the Tower the Stations of Train are located.
The first one is of the Railroad Mitre, the following of the Railroad Belgrano and the last of the Railroad San Martin. For these stations it circulates daily more than a million porsonas.
The Terminal neighbor of Bus of long distance and the great quantity of lines of collective urban, they make of this place an important concentration of transports and arrival nucleus to this city.
In this area, the river arrived originally until the ravine of the square San Martin that was abrupt. Later it was corrected and stuffed the low lands. It was formed a beach of landing called Port San Martin toward 1850 and they couched several jetties, among them those of the company The Catalinas, called this way by the proximity of the convent. It was area of barrack of importers and numerous cafetines and cabarets in their surroundings. This area was demolished, to open the way to the current one.
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| Urbanization Catalinas North |
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This area this located of the other side of the Square Air force, it is a fraction of land of 8 there is, outlined as a special urbanization in 1956 and setting in march in 1967. It gathers a group of towers of modern designs of outstanding architects that offices of important companies and the Sheraton Hotel harbor.
The first build in height it is the Tower Madera, of 1975, with pure silhouette from the low plant until the last floor, it works of the study SEPRA to IMPRESIT.
It continues him the Tower UIA 1968, with an opaque volume of concrete armed and great glazing volume; the elevator is panoramic with a view to the city. It works of the study Manteola, Petchersky, Sánchez Gómez, Santos, Solsona and Vigñoly.
It is like a surrounded island of speedy avenues and with few repairs for the pedestrian, making difficult their journey. The almost constant presence of the wind, result of the location and also of the urbanization, invites to look for refuge in some of these buildings.
There is a certain continuity with the following building, the Tower IBM of 1978, with basement of two levels of terraces, on which it detaches the tower with an important central nucleus in armed concrete. It is work of the Arq. M. R. Álvarez and Asoc. Walking for Av. Timber will find the Tower Conurbán 1969, with a great glazing plane toward the river, closes a great brick wall from behind at sight, it works of the Arq. Kocourek, Katzenstein and Llorens. The journey finishes in the Tower Catalinas of the Arqs. Lanari, Sivori to Impresit that shows a structure in all their height, had in glasses espejados.
To finish this Walk, to recapture walks to the square up San Martin, to visit the Street Florida. |
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| Florida Street |
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It is a pedestrian street in all their long one and an active business center, with the most elegant sector among square San Martin and Av. Córdoba. Then a general trade continues until Av. Corrientes and is prolonged to the east for pedestrian street Lavalle, with trade more economic, big sweet shops and cinemas.
The pedestrian streets Florida and Lavalle have a lot of people movement, during the hours of the day in the days of week and in the nights of Friday, Saturday and Sunday. For Florida they are characteristic the positions of sale of newspapers and magazines, with a lot of variety of national publications and foreigners.
To get newspapers and magazines of South American countries, it suits to consult the Kiosks of Average Av. between Florida and Maipú. In street Florida, boundary to the sweet shop Richmond, is the headquarters of the Rural Society Argentina, one of the domestic older and more noted entities. With premature reservations, a restaurant of excellent level works.
Florida was in the past the street of the most elegant residences in Buenos Aires and, behind the countless luminous posters, they are usually interesting facades of old petit hotels.
Among the streets Paraguay and Córdoba, the building Harrods (at the moment unoccupied) it almost occupies the whole apple and remembers the time of the big stores. Carried out by the Study Conder in 1914, it forms a great facade front, where they highlight the importance of the big windows and their delicate particulars in brass. In corner of Av. Córdoba the imposing building of the Naval Center, of 1914 is. Crossing the avenue, the Galleries Pacific.
Another landmark of interest is in corner of San Martin and Viamonte. It is the Church and Convent of Santa Catalina of Siena.
Toward the Av. 9 of Julio and in Maipú 645, 311 floor, will be able to visit the Library of the Argentinean Institute of the Petroleum, where can take contact with information specialized in relating topics to domestic energy resources. |
Viajoporargentina - Información turística sobre la República Argentina
© 2003- Prohibida su reproducción total o parcial. Derechos de Autor 527292 Ley 11723 |
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