Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Monumento a los caídos en Malvinas is a cenotaph in Plaza San Martín, in Buenos Aires, dedicated to the 649 Argentine soldiers who were killed in the Falklands War. The inscription reads La nación también rinde homenaje a los que guardan en su cuerpo o memoria las huellas del combate.

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The Kavanagh Building is a residential skyscraper in Retiro, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Designed in 1934 by architects Gregorio Sánchez, Ernesto Lagos and Luis María de la Torre, it is considered a pinnacle of modernist architecture. At the time of its inauguration in 1936, the Kavanagh was the tallest building in Latin America surpassing the Palacio Salvo built in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1928, as well as the tallest building in the world with a reinforced concrete structure.

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The Monument to General San Martín and the Armies of Independence, located in the Plaza Genera San Martín in the city of Buenos Aires, is an equestrian monument in bronze on a base of polished red granite that honors the Argentine national hero, and four important milestones related to American independence: Departure to War, Battle, Victory and The Return of the Victor.

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Parroquia de San Nicolás de Bari is a Catholic church located on Santa Fe Avenue, Retiro neighborhood, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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El Ateneo Grand Splendid is a bookshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2008, The Guardian placed it as the second most beautiful bookshop in the world. In 2019, it was named the "world's most beautiful bookstore" by the National Geographic.

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La Recoleta Cemetery is a cemetery located in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It contains the graves of notable people, including Eva Perón, presidents of Argentina, Nobel Prize winners, the founder of the Argentine Navy, and military commanders such as Julio Argentino Roca. In 2011, the BBC hailed it as one of the world's best cemeteries, and in 2013, CNN listed it among the 10 most beautiful cemeteries in the world.

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The Palais de Glace is a rumeno style Belle Époque building in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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The Monumento ecuestre a Carlos María de Alvear located on Plaza Julio de Caro, a landmark in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and was raised in honor of Carlos María de Alvear (1788-1852).

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Plaza Dante is a green space in the Recoleta neighborhood of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, which is part of the traditional Paseo de la Recoleta. Oval in shape, it is bounded by Pueyrredón, Del Libertador, Figueroa Alcorta avenues and Emilio Pettoruti Street. It was named in 1963 in homage to Dante Alighieri, as part of the celebrations for its seventh centenary.

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The National Museum of Fine Arts is an Argentine art museum in Buenos Aires, located in the Recoleta section of the city. The Museum inaugurated a branch in Neuquén in 2004. The museum hosts works by Goya, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Rodin, Manet and Chagall among other artists.

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Wind dynamics is a drawing made by Emilio Petorutti in 1915. It belongs to the series of abstract drawings to the carboncillo that the artist elaborated in Europe between 1914 and 1916, such as, for example, Force Centripete, Espansione Dinamica and Nello Spazio movement. These abstract works are related to futuristic searches because they study the problem of spatial dynamics. To understand this work it is necessary to know that Pettoruti reached the abstract language through two different paths. On the one hand, according to Marcelo Pacheco, working “directly the feeling of dynamics in the abstract space, and not as an observation of an object in motion in the real space. It is about studying the strength and expansion of energy in a space-time continuum without looking for a support that materializes it. ” On the other hand, through their meticulous and personal analysis of the Florentine and Venetian Renaissance teachers. The Argentine artist analyzed the Italian works by subverting the traditional learning practice based on the mere copy and proposing an unprecedented rereading of the underlying formal and compositional principles.

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The Monumento ecuestre a Bartolomé Mitre located on Plaza Mitre, a landmark in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and was raised in honor of Bartolomé Mitre (1821-1906).

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The Mariano Moreno National Library, better known as the National Library, is the most important depository library in Argentina. It was created in 1810 by the First Board as a public library in the Cabildo of Buenos Aires. The library was later nationalized and framed within the Executive Branch. In 1996, it was granted the status of a decentralized and autarkic organization and it was established that its objectives are to "guard, increase, preserve, register and disseminate the printed memory of the culture" of the country. Its headquarters are located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Recoleta.

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The Monument to Eva Perón in the city of Buenos Aires is located in the square located on Avenida del Libertador between Agüero and Austria, on the grounds of the National Library, which was renamed Evita Perón instead of the previous name of Rubén Darío. It was inaugurated by President Carlos Menem on December 3, 1999 before being completed, due to the fact that he left office on the 10th of that month. There was a previous monument project, approved in 1952, which was not completed due to the overthrow of the Peronist government in September 1955.

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The Argentine Automobile Club is Argentina's largest automobile association.

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The National Museum of Decorative Arts is an art museum in Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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The National Museum of Oriental Art (MNAO) is an Argentine museum located in the city of Buenos Aires. Its objective is to preserve and disseminate the material productions of Asian, African and Oceanic cultures.

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José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras, nicknamed "the Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru", was an Argentine general and the primary leader of the southern and central parts of South America's successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire who served as the Protector of Peru. Born in Yapeyú, Corrientes, in modern-day Argentina, he left the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata at the early age of seven to study in Málaga, Spain.

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María de los Remedios de Escalada y La Quintana, commonly known as Remedios de Escalada, was the wife of the leader of the Argentine War of Independence, General José de San Martín.

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The Argentine Army is the land force branch of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic and the senior military service of Argentina. Under the Argentine Constitution, the president of Argentina is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, exercising his or her command authority through the Minister of Defense.

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The San Martín National Institute is a cultural foundation in Buenos Aires dedicated to the legacy of General José de San Martín, the Liberator of Argentina, Chile, and Perú.

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The Argentine Navy is the navy of Argentina. It is one of the three branches of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic, together with the Army and the Air Force.

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Mercedes Tomasa de San Martín y Escalada was the daughter of the liberating general José de San Martín and María de los Remedios de Escalada.

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The Argentine Air Force is the air force of Argentina and branch of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic. In 2018, it had 13,837 military and 6,900 civilian personnel. FAA commander in chief is brigadier mayor Fernando Mengo.

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The José Hernández Museum of Popular Art is part of the network of public museums of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires. Its objective is to collect, research, preserve, exhibit and promote Argentine popular art in its different variants. Its collection is made up of pieces of various specialties and traditional and contemporary crafts. Its mission is to prioritize popular art and crafts as identity heritage and to promote the activity of artisans, value them as cultural creators and highlight their creativity, talent, manual skill and respect for the craft.

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Alférez de Navío José María Sobral was an Argentine explorer, geologist, naval officer and author who rose to prominence by participating in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1904) becoming the first Argentine to overwinter in Antarctica. Later he pursued studies at Uppsala University becoming the first Argentine to obtain a geology degree. Sobral worked briefly as ambassador to Norway in 1930 before returning to Argentina to work at YPF.

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The Buenos Aires Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires in Argentina. The garden is triangular in shape, and is bounded by Santa Fe Avenue, Las Heras Avenue and República Árabe Siria Street.

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Francisco Pascasio Moreno was a prominent explorer and academic in Argentina, where he is usually referred to as Perito Moreno. Perito Moreno has been credited as one of the most influential figures in the Argentine incorporation of large parts of Patagonia and its subsequent development.

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Juan José Valle was an Argentine general who headed a rebellion in 1956 against General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu's dictatorship.

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The Horacio González Museum of the Book and Language, formerly the Museum of the Book and Language, is a museum annexed to the National Library of the Argentine Republic, designed by Clorindo Testa and inaugurated in 2011.

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