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| To square Lavalle and surroundings |
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Opportunity to take contact with
the most important ramparts in our theater; it
is a famous nucleus of cultural activities and
it has the biggest concentration in bookstores
of the city.
Pedestrian journey
of 2 hours. It can park in street parquímetros
Uruguay or in parking underground low central
square, with entrance in Viamonte and Talcahuano.
To consent to all the activities it is advisable to carry out it in days Tuesday
to Friday , beginning the walk in the morning, to finish eating lunch in the
good restaurants of the area. |
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| The Walk begins in Average Av.
with Av. 9 of Julio. |
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| Avenue 9 of Julio |
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It is a wide
avenue of 140 m of wide, traced of south to north
uniting the square Constitution and the south
of the great Buenos Aires with the Av. Liberator.
It was open demolishing the old apples built
between streets Cerrito and Carlos Pellegrini
to incorporating these (like border streets)
to the new avenue, considered the widest in the
world.
The project dates of 1911, for initiative of Carlos María of Alvear and
the deputies Pedro Luro and Carlos Meyer Pellegrini, inspired by the studies
of the French urbanist Bouvard who newly visited Buenos Aires.
They proposed the law that, sanctioned by the National Congress, it also authorized
the opening of the North Diagonal, from the Square of May to the Square Lavalle.
There were trials, protests and evictions until, in June of 1937, the first tract
began among Bartolomé Mitre and Tucumán.
You began to demolish the buildings; a loan was emitted and it was carried out
working day and night, for moments with 1.500 men and 1.300 trucks. The trees
arrived in big shippings, requested by the paisajista Carlos Thays: jacarandáes
planted in four arrays, ceibos, tipas, a thousand cherry trees donated by the
Embassy of Japan and a drunk stick of 14 ton that it was removed from the Hospital
Rivadavia.
The first tract was finished in 128 days. Seven years later the opening arrived
until Belgrano, where is the Ministry of Public Works; in 1950 until the street
Paraguay and for the south until Independence; then it was being completed their
layout and today it connects for the south with the Freeway of the South, and
for the north the connection is completing with Av. Liberator and future Freeway
of the Costa.
In their opening they were without demolishing the building Public Works (that
was thought to transfer entire for slip, to clear the avenue, finally waste project)
and the palace Ortiz Basualdo, current embassy of France. |
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In the
intersection of the Av. 9 of Julio with Currents
and diagonal Roque Sáenz Peña,
is the obelisco of Buenos
Aires.
In Córdoba
and Av. 9 of Julio, to both sides of the avenue,
there is plazoletas where they are two sources,
beautiful and of great size, of the House
Du Val D'Osne of Paris.
They were part of a purchase that was made for
the Centennial of the Revolution of May of 1910.
They are of cast iron, with trays forming levels,
4 feminine figures and an infantile beat. It
is necessary to stop to admire their beauty,
since sometimes gets lost among the civic traffic.
Continue for Av. 9 of Julio until Marcelo T. Of Alvear and bending for this street
to block half is the Theater Coliseum.
In front of the Theater is the Square Libertad. Continuing Freedom
down the street in the corner of the Av. Córdoba will find the National
Theater Cervantes and entering for the corner of Córdoba and
Libertad, is the National
Museum of the Theater.
Down the street Freedom toward Currents will find the Temple
Libertad.
In front of the Synagogue the Square opens up Lavalle. |
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| Square Lavalle |
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With an area
of three apples of long, it is cut by streets
Viamonte and Tucumán. It stands out for
their history and their magnificent remarkable
trees. Here a stream that called you the Third
of the Means, happened and in and of itself it
had been uninhabited calling it to you the hole
of Zamudio. Around the 1800 a factory of rifles
worked and, later, it was built in the current
location of the Palacio of Justice the building
of the Park of Artillery that was arsenal and
shop of the Army.
In the next apple to the Theater Cervantes, in 1827, Santiago Wilde associated
with a group of Englishmen to the Vauxhall, the first public garden to the European
style it installed, it works of the horticulturist M Fabier. They were buildings
with magnificent gardens with exotic plants, where Wilde also had its residence.
There were a hotel and a Creole circus for 1.500 people, also a small theater,
where our Argentinean Theater began, with figures as Casacuberta. The garden
was livened up by a musical band and a small one zoological.
The floods of the land made finish with this park. Toward 1840, the residence
and the park they were acquired by Mariano Miró and Felisa Dorrego, descending
of the Gral. Manuel Dorrego who that shot in an ambush. They lifted a very magnificent
palace and they enriched the grove with valuable and fine copies. It was center
of a great social life; until the Infanta it was invited Isabel in their visit
to Buenos Aires in 1910. This square and the palace were scenarios of confrontations,
a bastion in the battle of the Revolution of 1890, and epicentre of bloody episodes
of the long history between unitary and federal. Finally, it was demolished in
1937.
In the place today they are as alive witness some wonderful copies of native
and exotic trees. Entering to the square, beside the games, leave a robust Agathis,
of clear brown trunk; it is a «remarkable tree», is some 120
years old and it is characterized by their slow growth. It is a species originating
of Australia, coniferous belonging to the family of the Araucarias, more primitive
pore that these. In December the floor is covered with its fruits cones that
are very similar to those of the cedars.
In corner of Talcahuano and Córdoba, it will see another remarkable tree
for their size and diameter of their glass. It is an aguaribay or Schinus molle,
autochthonous tree, native of climate of unirrigated land cordillerano. Their
habitat extends until the coast of the Pacific and south of the Peru. Their reddish
fruit is a flavorful condiment. In Viamonte and Freedom, another remarkable tree
is an imposing Ficus retusa, of 18 m of high, 40 m of glass diameter and 4 m
of trunk circumference. Crossing the street, in front of the theater
Columbus a Ficus macrophilla native of Australia exists, of great size
and with 50 m of glass diameter.
Walking for Tucumán toward Talcahuano, almost on the cord of the sidewalk,
it highlights a ceibo of Jujuy or Erythina falcata. It is “historical tree” because
Torcuato de Alvear planted it in 1878. It has a height of 12 m and 4 m of trunk
circumference. It is inclined, it possesses tutors and it is subjected to special
treatments of maintenance, for their age; it is stout and it flourishes before
tossing the leaves, with clusters of beautiful red flowers. It is native of Tucumán
and Salta, in the domestic Northwest.
In front of the Square in the street Freedom 581 are the school Rock and to the
front it is the Monument to the General Lavalle. In the opposed side to the school
Roca is the mirador Massue.
Beside the school Roca it is the Theater Columbus and in front of the this the
source of the dancers to the front, the building of the Palacio
of Justice.
Returning to the square, on Lavalle remains silent, is the Fair
of the Booksellers. |
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| Corrientes
Street |
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Today
they are many bookstores they are located in
Corrientes, from Talcahuano until Callao, and
in Santa Fe, from Callao until Larrea.
Always welcoming and open to the public's consultation,
they are generally assisted for personal very
conversant in the topic; they make attractive
this walk among books, disks, cinemas, theaters
and coffees.
In Average Av. 1200 are the Theater
Lola Membrives.
In Corrientes at the 1500 waits for it the General
Municipal Theater San Martin and then
we recommend to visit the Walk
La Plaza in Montevideo
and Sarmiento.
We cannot stop to mention the numerous coffees
of the Corrientes avenue, since they are also
and they have been part of the history of Buenos
Aires. The first ones opened up toward 1760,
but their biggest glory they reached it during
this century. In spite of the fact that important
political, writers, journalists, musicians and
actors dressed their tables; many of these local
are no longer, and those that last still, are
no longer what were before... For Currents, from
the avenue Callao and until the street San Martin
the coffees were plentiful with flavor to tango,
to politics , to conquests and deceits, and to
all type of having moved artistic. The Buenos
Aires bohemian was given appointment to the long
thing and the wide thing of this avenue, plethoric
of illusions and yearnings. In the different
cafetines apparent panegyrics were pronounced
about the freedom and the intellectuals of the
time evoked with great lyricism the authenticity
of the artistic soul, far from the bourgeois
habits and of the mediocrity. |
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