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   Plaza de Mayo

   The square in front of the government house, made in 1884 by demolishing the arcade that divided two older squares. The revolution of May 1810 began here, Perón addressed crowds from the balcony, and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo have circled the pyramid every Thursday since 1977.

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   Obelisco de Buenos Aires

   An obelisk of sixty-seven metres put up in 1936 for the four hundredth anniversary of the city's first founding, on the spot where the Argentine flag was first flown in Buenos Aires. It stands in the middle of what the city calls the widest avenue in the world.

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   Buenos Aires Cathedral

   The cathedral of Buenos Aires, whose neoclassical front is modelled on the Palais Bourbon in Paris. San Martín, the liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru, is buried in a side chapel guarded permanently by grenadiers, and Jorge Bergoglio was archbishop here before becoming pope.

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   National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina

   The national art museum, in a converted pumping station in Recoleta, holding the largest collection of Argentine art anywhere along with European work from El Greco to Van Gogh. Entry is free.

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   Buenos Aires Botanical Garden

   Seven hectares in Palermo laid out in 1898 by Carlos Thays, the French landscape architect who designed most of the city's parks, with five greenhouses and around five thousand species. The cats that live in it are a Buenos Aires institution.

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   Templo Libertad

   The oldest synagogue in Argentina, whose congregation formed in the 1860s and whose building of 1932 stands on Libertad Street near the opera house. Argentina has the largest Jewish population in Latin America, and the museum inside covers it.

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   Torre Monumental

   A clock tower of seventy-six metres in Retiro, given by the British community in 1916 for the centenary of independence and modelled on an English parish tower. It was renamed after the Falklands war in 1982, and a crowd attacked it at the time.

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   Cabildo of Buenos Aires

   The colonial town hall, from whose balcony the revolutionary junta was proclaimed in May 1810. Two later avenues cut away its wings, so the building standing today is a fragment of the original arcade, kept as a museum of the revolution.

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   National Museum of Decorative Arts

   Museum in Buenos Aires in a Beaux-Arts mansion of 1917 by René Sergent. The Errázuriz family's rooms are kept as furnished, with Manet and Fragonard among the paintings.

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    National Historical Museum

    The national history museum, in a house in Parque Lezama, covering the May Revolution and the wars of independence — San Martín's sabre and uniform are its central objects. The park it stands in is where the city's first settlement is traditionally placed.

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   San Martín Palace

   A palace of 1909 built for the Anchorena family, one of the wealthiest in Argentina, in a French style that reflected where they spent their money. The state bought it in 1936 and it is now the foreign ministry's ceremonial building.

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   Palace of Running Waters

   A pumping station of 1894 disguised as a palace, faced with three hundred thousand glazed bricks and terracotta panels shipped from England, because the city wanted its water works to look like a monument. The tanks inside held seventy-two million litres.

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   ARA Uruguay

   A corvette built in England in 1874, and the oldest ship still afloat in the Argentine navy. She rescued the Swedish Antarctic expedition in 1903 after their ship was crushed by ice, and is moored at Puerto Madero as a museum.

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   King Fahd Islamic Cultural Center

   One of the largest mosques in Latin America, opened in 2000 on land the Argentine state gave and Saudi Arabia paid to build on. It serves a Muslim population, largely of Syrian and Lebanese descent, that has been in Argentina for over a century.

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   Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires

   A museum opened in 2001 to hold Eduardo Costantini's collection of Latin American art — Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Tarsila do Amaral, Xul Solar — in a purpose-built gallery in Palermo. It is the best single introduction to the region's twentieth century.

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   Plaza San Martín

   A park in Retiro laid out by Carlos Thays on a slope above the railway, with enormous rubber trees and jacarandas. The monument to the Falklands dead stands at its lower edge, opposite the tower the British community gave the city.

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   Parque Tres de Febrero

   Four hundred hectares in Palermo, on land confiscated from the dictator Rosas after his defeat in 1852 and opened as a public park in 1875 — the date of that battle is what the name refers to. It holds a rose garden of twelve thousand plants and the lakes the city rows on.

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   National Museum of Immigration

   A complex built between 1905 and 1911 to receive immigrants, with dormitories, a hospital and a dining hall — over a million people passed through it in forty-two years, at a time when Argentina was taking more migrants per head than the United States. It is now the immigration museum.

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   Japanese Gardens

   A Japanese garden given by the Japanese-Argentine community in 1967 and among the largest outside Japan, with a koi lake, bridges and a tea house. Argentina's Japanese community arrived largely from Okinawa in the early twentieth century.

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    Congressional Plaza

    Three linked squares covering some three hectares in front of the Argentine Congress. The milestone marking kilometre zero of every national highway stands here, along with the Monument to the Two Congresses, unveiled in 1914 for the centenary of independence.

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