Its founders named the city Buenos Aires after Saint María del Buen Ayre (Spanish for Saint Mary of Good Air),
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Casa Rosada is the official residence of the incumbent president on the east side of Plaza de Mayo in the Montserrat district. Built on the remains of the old city fortifications.
Pirámide de Mayo, Plaza de Mayo, crowned by an allegory of freedom. Height 20m.
The oldest national monument was commissioned in 1811 to commemorate the first anniversary of the May Revolution.
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La Boca, district of Buenos Aires, is located at the confluence of the Riachuelo River and the Río de la Plata, hence its name (Boca = Spanish for "mouth").
Its original houses were built from the sheet metal of scrapped ships and colorfully painted with marine varnish....
La Boca emerged at the end of the 19th century as a neighborhood of Italian immigrants. Many from Genoa.
In 1882, after a long general strike, La Boca broke away from Argentina and the rebels raised the Genoese flag, which was taken down again by then Argentine President Julio Argentino Roca.
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La Boca, district of Buenos Aires, is located at the confluence of the Riachuelo River and the Río de la Plata, hence its name (Boca = Spanish for "mouth").
Its original houses were built from the sheet metal of scrapped ships and colorfully painted with marine varnish....
La Boca emerged at the end of the 19th century as a neighborhood of Italian immigrants. Many from Genoa.
In 1882, after a long general strike, La Boca broke away from Argentina and the rebels raised the Genoese flag, which was taken down again by then Argentine President Julio Argentino Roca.
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La Boca, district of Buenos Aires, is located at the confluence of the Riachuelo River and the Río de la Plata, hence its name (Boca = Spanish for "mouth").
Its original houses were built from the sheet metal of scrapped ships and colorfully painted with marine varnish....
La Boca emerged at the end of the 19th century as a neighborhood of Italian immigrants. Many from Genoa.
In 1882, after a long general strike, La Boca broke away from Argentina and the rebels raised the Genoese flag, which was taken down again by then Argentine President Julio Argentino Roca.
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