Buenos Aires

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Pacific Galleries
The plastic artist Jorge Abbot describes the main entrance of the building, one of the few whole murals that remain in the city.

Retiro House of Borges
Jorge Luis Borges lived from 1944 in the sixth floor of the building in Maipu 944. It was this place where the writer wrote classes, wrote some of his grandest works and presented to his mother, the woman who would later become his wife, Maria Kodama. She remembers some of these moments.

San Martin Monument
This monument is a homage to "the Liberator". San Martin was a military and political argentine that fought for independence of Argentina, Chile, and Peru. The historian Norberto Calasso describes the figure. Also, you can listen to the traditional hymn of San Martin.

Florida Street
the vanguard, the art, and the style is fused in this street in the decade of 1960. The actor and movie director Sergio Renan remembers this epoch. Jorge Luis Borges visited daily the library La Ciudad located on this street where he spent many hours.

Basílica del Santísimo Sacramento
The basilica is considered as the jewel of architectural art of Buenos Aires. It's one of the most elaborately ornate religious temples within the city, and is today the preferred for families of the traditional society to celebrate their marriages. The architect Pena y the historian Eduardo Lazzari describes this rich basilica.

Kavanagh Building
Constructed in the decade of 1930, it was the first scyscraper of the city, at only 120 meters high. The archetect Pena, directory of the city museum, describes it's architecture. The writer Esther Cross, that was inspired in this tower to write a book, comments about her feelings about this building.

Plaza San Martin
In the beginning of the 18th century, the Retiro functioned as a market for black slaves. Later it was a Bull fighting arena. The dancer Miguel Angel Zotto speaks about the significance of the Tango dance. Also, Maria Kodama, recounts why this plaza was an important fountain of inspiration for the writer. Alejandro Dolina recounts the Poem of Borges, "La Plaza San Martin".

Memorial of the Fallen at Malvinas
In 1982 the military dictator embarked in a was against England for the reconquest of the the Malvinas Islands. An ex-combatant remembers these days during the war.

Monumental Tower
This tower, popularly known as the Tower of the English, is situated in the center of the plaza Fuerza Aerea Argentina. It was donated by the English residents for the 100th commemoration of the May revolution if 1810. The historian Felix Luna speaks about the place that occupied Argentina at this time, and Andrew Graham Yoll, British journalist, describes the details of the tower.
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