Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Andrés Guacurarí, Andrés Guasurarí or Andrés Guaçurarí y Artigas, known as Comandante Andresito, was a Guaraní missionary military officer and caudillo. He was one of the first federal caudillos of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata. Of Guaraní origin, he governed between 1815 and 1819 the Province of the Missions, of which the current Argentine province of the same name is only a remnant. He was one of the most faithful collaborators of the general of the Banda Oriental José Gervasio Artigas, who sponsored him and adopted him as a son; allowing him to sign as Andrés Artigas.

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The monument to the Iguazu Falls is located in the Province of Misiones square, on the corner of Avenida de Mayo and 9 de Julio Avenue in Buenos Aires (Argentina). It is located in one of the most central points of the city, a few blocks from the Obelisk and the Casa Rosada. It was inaugurated on December 11, 2013.

Wikipedia: Monumento a las cataratas del Iguazú (ES)

The Spanish Club is located at 172/78 Bernardo de Irigoyen Street, meters from the intersection between Avenida 9 de Julio and Avenida de Mayo, in the neighborhood of Monserrat, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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The Church of San Juan Bautista, known at the end of the nineteenth century as "San Juan de los franceses", because it was frequented by the French community of Buenos Aires, where they showed special devotion to an image of San Bernardo, is a Catholic church located on Alsina Street, on the corner of Piedras, in the neighborhood of Monserrat, in Buenos Aires. The primitive church was built in 1654, given its poor condition it was rebuilt in 1719. It was completely rebuilt in 1767, demolished in 1778 to build the current construction, completed in 1797. In 1942 it was declared a National Historic Monument by decree of the PEN. It was also known as the "church of the Basques", because the Betharramite or "Bayonese" fathers who managed it carried out their apostolate for the Basque community.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de San Juan Bautista (Buenos Aires) (ES)

The Monument to Julio Argentino Roca, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a work made up of three bronze sculptures on a base of polished red granite. Inaugurated in 1941, it honors Lieutenant General Julio Argentino Roca (1843–1914), Argentine politician, military and statesman, architect of the Conquest of the Desert, twice President of the Argentine Nation and representative of the so-called Generation of the Eighties that led Argentine politics for more than thirty years.

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Triton is a Greek god of the sea, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite. Triton lived with his parents in a golden palace on the bottom of the sea. Later he is often depicted as having a conch shell he would blow like a trumpet.

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The Buenos Aires Legislature Palace houses the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is an architectural landmark in the city's Montserrat district, situated in a triangular block bounded by the streets Hipólito Yrigoyen Street, Presidente Julio A. Roca Avenue and Perú Street. Built of grey granite, it has a Neoclassical design. The building is open to the public on week-days only. The building contains the Esteban Echeverría Library, Salón Rosado, and a carillon which, when it was installed in 1930, was the largest in South America.

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Otto Wulff building is a historic building of Buenos Aires. It is located in the corner of Belgrano and Peru, neighborhood of Monserrat.

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The San Andrés Presbyterian Church is a Christian church whose origin dates back to the arrival of Scottish settlers in Argentina at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Wikipedia: Iglesia Presbiteriana San Andrés (ES)

Joaquín Samuel de Anchorena (1876–1961) was an Argentine lawyer and politician, noted for being mayor of Buenos Aires between 1910 and 1914.

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The Parish Church of Nuestra Señora de Montserrat is a Roman Catholic church in the autonomous city of Buenos Aires.

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The building of the Central Department of the Argentine Federal Police is the headquarters of that police force, located in the neighborhood of Monserrat, belonging to commune 1 of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is considered a National Historic Monument by the National Commission of Monuments, Places and Historical Assets.

Wikipedia: Departamento Central de la Policía Federal Argentina (edificio) (ES)

Mariano Moreno was an Argentine lawyer, journalist, and politician. He played a decisive role in the Primera Junta, the first national government of Argentina, created after the May Revolution.

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The Thinker is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin, situated atop a stone pedestal. The work depicts a nude male figure of heroic size sitting on a rock. He is seen leaning over, his right elbow placed on his left thigh, holding the weight of his chin on the back of his right hand. The pose is one of deep thought and contemplation, and the statue is often used as an image to represent philosophy.

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Alfredo Lorenzo Palacios was an Argentine socialist politician.

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Kilometer zero is a monolith that symbolizes the starting point of Argentina's road network. It is located in Buenos Aires in Plaza Mariano Moreno, and not, as is mistakenly believed, in its neighboring Plaza del Congreso.

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The La Inmobiliaria Building is a neo-Renaissance style building inaugurated in 1910 and built for the insurance company of the same name, founded by Antonio Devoto. It has two twin reddish domes, one in each corner, which characterize it. It is located in the neighborhood of Monserrat, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Wikipedia: Edificio La Inmobiliaria (ES)

The Mercado Modelo was a shopping center that was located in front of the Plaza Lorea in Buenos Aires. Its short existence ended with the opening of Avenida de Mayo, when it was demolished. In 1883 the Mercado Nuevo Modelo was inaugurated, on the corner of Sarmiento and Montevideo streets, which operated until its demolition in 1889. Today its place is occupied by Paseo La Plaza.

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Plaza del Congreso is a public park facing the Argentine Congress in Buenos Aires. The plaza is part of a 3 hectare open space comprising three adjoining plazas to the east of the Congress building. The Kilometre Zero for all Argentine National Highways is marked on a milestone at the plaza.

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José Manuel Estrada was an Argentine professor, writer, politician, intellectual and eminent orator, representative of Catholic thought.

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The Museum of Argentine Women was created on August 11, 2006 and is located at Pasaje Rivarola 147 in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. It was declared of cultural interest by the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation by Resolution O.D. No. 2378 June 2007. Among its purposes, it seeks to be an archive and preserve the cultural history of women, through the promotion and production of art, from dialectics and emphasizing the gender perspective as a construction of the signifier.

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The Metropolitan Theater is one of the classic theaters on Corrientes Avenue, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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The Apolo Theater is located at 1372 Corrientes Avenue in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the same site where the theater that originally bore that name was founded in 1886.

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The Teatro General San Martín is an important public theater in Buenos Aires, located on Corrientes Avenue and adjacent to the cultural center of the same name. It is one of the major theaters in Argentina and offers venues for the representation of stage works and film, as well as art exhibitions.

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The Presidente Alvear Theater is located in the San Nicolás neighborhood of the City of Buenos Aires, precisely on Avenida Corrientes 1659, and is one of the theaters dependent on the Ministry of Culture of that city.

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The Los Angeles Cinema specialized in children's films produced by Disney. The building is on Avenida Corrientes 1764, Buenos Aires, an artery where theater spaces abound and, in other times, cinemas.

Wikipedia: Multiespacio Los Ángeles (ES)

The Confitería del Molino is an historical Art Nouveau style confitería (coffeehouse) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, located in front of the Palace of the National Congress and the Congressional Plaza, on the intersection of Callao and Rivadavia avenues in the barrio of Balvanera.

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The Plaza Doctor Bernardo H. Houssay is a public green space of approximately one hectare that is located on the border of the Recoleta neighborhood with that of Balvanera, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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The Museum of Foreign Debt was opened on April 28, 2005, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The museum highlights the dangers of borrowing money from abroad. There are no English translations in the museum, everything is in the Spanish language. The 1998–2002 Argentine great depression that drove the 2001 riots in Argentina prompted the largest foreign debt default in history – approximately $100 billion USD.

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The Casa Carlos Gardel Museum, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a house museum located in the house where the tango singer, composer and film actor Carlos Gardel lived.

Wikipedia: Museo Casa Carlos Gardel (ES), Website