Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Islamic Cultural Center "Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd in Argentina" is a mosque and center for Islamic culture located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is named after King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.

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Félix Charpentier was a French sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

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The monument "El Beso" is located in the neighborhood of Palermo in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina, within the Park "El Rosedal".

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Francisco Seeber was an Argentine military officer, businessman and Mayor of Buenos Aires.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He was a member of the Democratic Party and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. His initial two terms were centered on combating the Great Depression, while his third and fourth saw him shift his focus to America's involvement in World War II.

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Aeschines was a Greek statesman and one of the ten Attic orators.

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Carlos Thays was a French-Argentine landscape architect, and a student of French landscape architect Édouard André.

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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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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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The Buenos Aires Japanese Gardens are a public space administered by the non-profit Japanese Argentine Cultural Foundation in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They are among the largest Japanese gardens in the world outside Japan.

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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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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 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 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 general Xavier Isaac.

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

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The Mariano Moreno National Library, better known as the National Library, is the most important library in Argentina. It was created in 1810 by the First Board as a public library in the Cabildo de Buenos Aires. The library was nationalized later and framed within the Executive Power. In 1996, he was granted the character of decentralized and autarkic organism and it was established that its objectives are "guarding, increasing, preserving, registering and disseminating the printed memory of the culture" of the country. Its main headquarters is located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Recoleta.

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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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Floralis Genérica is a sculpture made of steel and aluminum located in Plaza de las Naciones Unidas, Avenida Figueroa Alcorta, Buenos Aires, a gift to the city by the Argentine architect Eduardo Catalano. Catalano once said that the flower "is a synthesis of all the flowers and, at the same time, a hope reborn every day at opening." It was created in 2002. The sculpture was designed to move, closing its petals in the evening and opening them in the morning.

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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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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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