8 Sights in La Plata, Argentina (with Map and Images)

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was an Argentine activist, intellectual, writer, statesman and President of Argentina. His writing spanned a wide range of genres and topics, from journalism to autobiography, to political philosophy and history. He was a member of a group of intellectuals, known as the Generation of 1837, who had a great influence on 19th-century Argentina. He was particularly concerned with educational issues and was also an important influence on the region's literature.

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Florentino Ameghino was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist, whose fossil discoveries on the Argentine Pampas, especially on Patagonia, rank with those made in the western United States during the late 19th century. Along with his two brothers – Carlos and Juan – Florentino Ameghino was one of the most important founding figures in South American paleontology.

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The Curutchet House, La Plata, Argentina, is a building by Le Corbusier. It was commissioned by Dr. Pedro Domingo Curutchet, a surgeon, in 1948 and included a small medical office on the ground floor. The house consists of four main levels with a courtyard between the house and the clinic. The building faces the Paseo del Bosque park. The main facade incorporates a brise soleil.

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The former Zoological and Botanical Garden of La Plata is located on the Paseo del Bosque in the city of La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. With its 17 hectares of surface, it was the second largest state zoo in the country after the one in the City of Buenos Aires. Today it has fewer than 60 species, compared to 120 species in 2016. This is due to its constant release of animals within the government project that transforms this space into a Biopark .

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The Museum of Astronomy and Geophysics of the UNLP was born as an idea since the foundation of the La Plata Astronomical Observatory in 1883, but it took more than 100 years, for the Faculty of Astronomical and Geophysical Sciences to decide on its creation in July 1997. In 2001 its permanent exhibition was inaugurated.

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The Dardo Rocha Museum and Archive, located at 935 50th Street in the city of La Plata, was created on October 30, 1948 when Law No. 5336 was passed, promulgated by decree No. 27,365 of November 13, 1948, which created the Dardo Rocha Museum and Archive, in the house he built in the city of La Plata.

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The Church of San Francisco de Asís is located in the city of La Plata, on Calle 12, Nº 1773, between 68 and 69, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The temple was declared a Provincial Historical Monument in 1975 as it was the place where Juan Domingo Perón and Eva Duarte got married, on December 10, 1945.

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The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, also known as Cathedral of La Plata, is the main Catholic temple in the city of La Plata, one of the most important in America and one of the largest churches in the world. It is located in the apple comprised by streets 14 and 15, and 51 and 53 avenues, in front of the Moreno Plaza, the city's geographical center. It belongs to the Archdiocese of La Plata.

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