A report on Buenos Aires

Our Lady of Buen Aire in front of the National Migration Department
Juan de Garay founding Buenos Aires in 1580. The initial settlement, founded by Pedro de Mendoza, had been abandoned since 1542.
Aldus verthoont hem de stadt Buenos Ayrros geleegen in Rio de la Plata, painting by a Dutch sailor who anchored at the port around 1628.
Emeric Essex Vidal, General view of Buenos Ayres from the Plaza de Toros, 1820. In this area now lies the Plaza San Martín.
Impression of the Buenos Aires Cathedral by Carlos Pellegrini, 1829.
View of the Avenida de Mayo in 1915
Construction of the Obelisk of Buenos Aires on the 9 de Julio Avenue, 1936.
9 de Julio Avenue, 1986.
Catalinas Norte is an important business complex composed of nineteen commercial office buildings and occupied by numerous leading Argentine companies, foreign subsidiaries, and diplomatic offices. It is located in the Retiro and San Nicolás neighborhoods.
Satellite view of the Greater Buenos Aires area, and the Río de la Plata.
Buenos Aires Botanical Garden
Heavy rain and thunderstorm in Plaza San Martin. Thunderstorms are usual during the summer.
The Buenos Aires City Hall in the right corner of the entrance to the Avenida de Mayo
Metropolitan Police of Buenos Aires City
The Immigrants' Hotel, constructed in 1906, received and assisted the thousands of immigrants arriving to the city. The hotel is now a National Museum.
Villa 31, a villa miseria in Buenos Aires
The Metropolitan Cathedral is the main Catholic church in the city.
The Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, the main stock exchange and financial center of Argentina.
Headquarters of the National Bank of Argentina, the national bank and the largest in the country's banking sector.
Buenos Aires Bus, the city's tourist bus service. The official estimate is that the bus carries between 700 and 800 passengers per day, and has carried half a million passengers since its opening.
Monument to the Carta Magna and Four Regions of Argentina in the neighborhood of Palermo
The Centro Cultural Kirchner (Kirchner Cultural Center), located at the former Central Post Office, is the largest of Latin America.
Homage to Buenos Aires, a mural located at the Carlos Gardel station of the Buenos Aires Underground. It represents a typical scene from the city and several of its icons, such as singer Carlos Gardel, the Obelisco, the port, tango dancing and the Abasto market.
Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art.
MALBA
The interior of El Ateneo Grand Splendid, a celebrated bookstore located in the barrio of Recoleta.
Tango dancers during the World tango dance tournament.
The Buenos Aires Philharmonic.
Gaumont Cinema opened in 1912.
A screening at Parque Centenario, as part of the 2011 edition of BAFICI
A fashion show at the Planetarium in 2013, as part of BAFWEEK.
View of Bolívar Street facing the Cabildo and Diagonal Norte, on Buenos Aires' historical center. The city's characteristic convergence of diverse architectural styles can be seen, including Spanish Colonial, Beaux-Arts and modernist architecture.
Teatro Colón.
Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, a public high school in Buenos Aires, and it is one of the most prestigious in Argentina and Latin America.
University of Buenos Aires' Law School in Recoleta
July 9 Avenue
Aeroparque Jorge Newbery
A Mitre Line Trenes Argentinos train in Retiro railway station
Map of the Greater Buenos Aires Commuter Rail Network
EcoBici.
200 Series rolling stock at San José de Flores station, Buenos Aires Underground.
Buenos Aires Underground map
Metrobus, Paseo del Bajo.
Buquebus high-speed ferries connect Buenos Aires to Uruguay
Campo Argentino de Polo, home of the Argentine Open Polo Championship, the most important global event of this discipline
La Bombonera during a night game of Copa Libertadores between Boca Juniors v. Colo Colo.
Luna Park

Capital and primate city of Argentina.

- Buenos Aires

380 related topics with Alpha

Overall

2001 FIFA World Youth Championship

2 links

The 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in Argentina between 17 June and 8 July 2001.

The 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in Argentina between 17 June and 8 July 2001.

Javier Saviola, top scorer

The tournament took part in six cities, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Mendoza, Rosario, Salta, and Mar del Plata.

Balvanera

10 links

Eclectic architecture along Callao Avenue.
The Argentine Congress and Auguste Rodin's Thinker, one of the few surviving originals the sculptor made.
French Academy architecture lost among its modern surroundings, Corrientes and Pueyrredón Avenues.
Palacio de Aguas Corrientes, Córdoba Avenue.
First of May Plaza.
Bohemian Santos Discépolo Way.
Café de los Angelitos, long a meeting point for musical and literary talent.
Entre Ríos Avenue, the neighborhood's eastern limit.
Entrance to the Buenos Aires Underground Line H at Plaza Miserere.

Balvanera is a barrio or neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2015 Argentine general election

6 links

General elections were held in Argentina on 25 October 2015 to elect the President and National Congress, and followed primary elections which were held on 9 August 2015.

General elections were held in Argentina on 25 October 2015 to elect the President and National Congress, and followed primary elections which were held on 9 August 2015.

Opinion polls during the first round had underestimated the number of voters intending to vote for Macri, while later polls underestimated Scioli.
Then-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner casting her vote.

On the first runoff voting ever held for an Argentine Presidential Election, Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri narrowly defeated Front for Victory candidate and Buenos Aires Province Governor Daniel Scioli with 51.34% of votes.

The official banner of the 125th IOC Session

125th IOC Session

2 links

The official banner of the 125th IOC Session
The Buenos Aires Hilton where the session was held

The 125th IOC Session took place at the Buenos Aires Hilton in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 7 to 10 September 2013.

Mauricio Macri

18 links

Argentine businessman and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019.

Argentine businessman and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019.

Mauricio Macri and Martín Palermo, football player of Boca Juniors.
Macri in 2007
Macri (center) with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (left) and Buenos Aires Governor Daniel Scioli (right) in 2008
Macri on a 200 Series train on Line A of the Buenos Aires Underground, January 2013
Macri with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner during the inauguration of Autopista Illia in 2014
Macri inspecting Metropolitan Police graduates
Macri and Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio (now Pope Francis)
Macri's 2015 presidential campaign logo
Macri campaigning in Cordoba, in August 2015
Macri receives the presidential sash from acting president Federico Pinedo.
Macri at the World Economic Forum, January 2018.
Argentine delegation to the World Economic Forum in Davos, in 2016. It was the return of the country to the conference after 11 years of absence.
Macri with former president Bill Clinton, Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi, economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and London mayor Sadiq Khan at the Clinton Global Initiative
Macri negotiating the loan with Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF.
Macri announcing an investment deal for the Vaca Muerta shale deposit in Patagonia
Mauricio Macri, US president Donald Trump and their respective first ladies, at the White House in the United States
Macri and German chancellor Angela Merkel during the 2017 G20 Summit in Hamburg
Macri acknowledged Juan Guaidó as president of Venezuela during the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis.
Mauricio Macri during the electoral campaign of 2017
Demonstration in support of Maldonado during the Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice.
Arms of Mauricio Macri as member of the Order of Isabella the Catholic

He previously served as 5th Chief of Government of Buenos Aires from 2007 to 2015, and was a member of the Chamber of Deputies representing Buenos Aires from 2005 to 2007.

Approximate route

Avenida del Libertador (Buenos Aires)

6 links

Approximate route
The avenue in 1936
The avenue in Olivos, Greater Buenos Aires
Prourban tower
Patio Bullrich
National Museum of Fine Arts
National Library
Argentine Automobile Club building
National Museum of Decorative Arts
Monument to the Carta Magna
Bosch Palace
Hipódromo Argentino de Palermo
ESMA
National Atomic Energy Commission

Avenida del Libertador is one of the principal thoroughfares in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and in points north, extending 25 km from the Retiro District of Buenos Aires (where it continues as Avenida Leandro N. Alem) to the northern suburb of San Fernando.

Governor Dardo Rocha (1838–1921), founder of La Plata.

La Plata

6 links

Capital city of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

Capital city of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

Governor Dardo Rocha (1838–1921), founder of La Plata.
Cathedral of La Plata
Panoramic view of La Plata.
Railway station, La Plata.
Climogram
Casa de Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires.
Banco Provincia headquarters in La Plata.
Evolution of the population of La Plata from 1960 to 2001.
Presidencia de la UNLP.
Number 19 School Gral. José de San Martín.
The city from the air.
View of the City of La Plata and Plaza Moreno from the cathedral.
View of the Plaza Moreno and the cathedral.
Plaza Dardo Rocha from the air.
Courthouse.
Juzgados Federales de La Plata (ex Hotel Provincial).
Jacaranda foliage and blossom
Map of the Autódromo Roberto José Mouras track
Pasaje Dardo Rocha Building, named in honor of the city's founder.
Former building of the Teatro Argentino (burnt and demolished in 1977).
La Plata Museum of Natural History.
Doll winner 2008, "Arde Troya".
Curutchet House, World Heritage Site in La Plata
The city and vicinity at 8:19 PM locally on July 4, 2022, taken from the International Space Station.
The city and vicinity at 8:19 PM locally on July 4, 2022, taken from the International Space Station.

La Plata was planned and developed to serve as the provincial capital after the city of Buenos Aires was federalized in 1880.

Republican Proposal

5 links

Centre-right

Centre-right

Macri was re-elected Mayor of Buenos Aires together with María Eugenia Vidal as Vice-Chief of the city.
President Macri and Vicepresident Gabriela Michetti, in their Inauguration Ceremony in Argentine Parliament, on 10 December 2015

PRO has governed the Buenos Aires since 2007 and formed Cambiemos with the Radical Civic Union and the Civic Coalition ARI with which they won the 2015 general election.

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta

5 links

Rodríguez Larreta at a press conference
Rodríguez Larreta inaugurating a housing complex
Rodríguez Larreta with then-mayor Mauricio Macri and SBASE chief Juan Pablo Picardo on a 200 Series train

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta (born 29 October 1965) is an Argentine economist, politician and the current Chief of Government of the City of Buenos Aires.

From top and left: Crossing of the Andes, Battle of Salta, 22 May 1810 Open Cabildo, Battle of San Lorenzo, Battle of Suipacha, 1813 Assembly, Shooting of Liniers, Jujuy Exodus.

Argentine War of Independence

4 links

Secessionist civil war fought from 1810 to 1818 by Argentine patriotic forces under Manuel Belgrano, Juan José Castelli and José de San Martín against royalist forces loyal to the Spanish crown.

Secessionist civil war fought from 1810 to 1818 by Argentine patriotic forces under Manuel Belgrano, Juan José Castelli and José de San Martín against royalist forces loyal to the Spanish crown.

From top and left: Crossing of the Andes, Battle of Salta, 22 May 1810 Open Cabildo, Battle of San Lorenzo, Battle of Suipacha, 1813 Assembly, Shooting of Liniers, Jujuy Exodus.
The May Revolution forced the viceroy to resign. He was replaced by a government Junta, the Primera Junta.
Cornelio Saavedra, president of the "Primera Junta".
Battle of San Nicolás.
Horse riding in Asencio
San Martín wrapped in the flag.

The territory of modern Argentina was part of the Spanish Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, with its capital city in Buenos Aires, seat of government of the Spanish viceroy.