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Walking along Florida Street in Buenos Aires
The last two blocks of Florida, a pedestrian shopping street, show off their elegance and
tourist appeal with leather, knitwear, jewelry and souvenir shops. Around mid-day, the
Florida Garden bar, on the corner of Paraguay and Florida, is another traditional enclave
of this part of the city of Buenos Aires.
Located on Florida 943, Buenos Aires's Centro Cultural de España,
in affiliation with the Instituto de Cooperacion Iberoamericana, is a focal point for
cultural activities related to literature, plastic and visual art. The Galeria Museo Aguilar
has its home on Florida 954, a commercial space where a wide selection of paintings by
Argentina artists may be appreciated.
The gallery is open daily from 8:00 am to 9:00 pm and it is free to visitors.
At the end of Florida street, in Buenos
Aires, a stairway leads to the underground Ruth Benzacar art gallery, one
of the city's most famous of its kind. It lies below the small plaza that is home to the
Monumento a Esteban Echeverria. Now focus your attention on the
Buenos Aires Marriott Plaza Hotel by
German architect Adolf Zucker, who was commissioned by land owner Ernesto Tornquist.
Originally opened in 1910 and remodeled several times since then, the hotel is one of the
city's best and has accumulated a guest list over the years that would light up the eyes of
any eager admirer of the rich and famous. Both its restaurant and bar are two of
Buenos Aires
most selective rendezvous points. The hotel is separated by a narrow passage from the
Edificio Kavanagh, a building that carries the name of the rancher consignor Corina Kavanagh
and is one of Buenos Aires's
architectural icons. Designed by architects Sanchez, Lagos and
De la Torre and inaugurated in 1936, this 33 floor, 360 foot high building was the highest
concrete structure in South America at the time.
Its apartments were originally designed
for inland ranchers to rent and were, therefore, complete with the fine details and services
of a large hotel; its 105 apartments
are among the most expensive in the city and, probably,
in the entire Southern Hemisphere. The Basilica del Santisimo Sacramento is hidden behind
the Kavanagh building on the 1000 block of San Martin. It was inaugurated in 1916 as a
result of a project by French architects Couloms and Chauvet, commissioned by Mrs Mercedes
Castellanos de Anchorena, who lies buried among the marble, granite and onyx imported from
the Old World. It is the most luxurious temple ever built in
Buenos Aires and South America
for an individual using private funds.
Back to the upper side of Plaza San Martin, there is an elegant, neo-Gothic home on Maipu
and Santa Fe that belonged to the Haedo family. Today, it houses the central office of the
Administracion de Parques Nacionales (National Park Commission) in
Buenos Aires, where there is park
information as well as a library. On Maipu 994, a bronze plaque hangs to mark the place
where writer Jorge Luis Borges lived until his final years. A good part of the next block
on Avenida Santa Fe is occupied by the city's most lavish mansion, a work commissioned by
Jose C. Paz, the founder of the La Prensa newspaper. It was designed by French architect
Louis Sortais, built by Argentine engineer Carlos Agote and completed in 1912, although Mr.
Paz never lived here. Its 129,200 sq.ft. were sold to the federal government in 1935, which
in turn, installed the Circulo Militar (Military Circle), a gathering place for retired
Argentina Army officials. The multi-colored Museo de Armas (Arms Museum) is housed here
and exhibits documents, tools and uniforms related to military arts and crafts.
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