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TOURS: CENTRAL AREA
- Government Palace of Buenos Aires. Bolívar 1.
The style of the building combines elements of French, Italian and German architectures. It was built between 1891and 1902, and materials such marble, mosaics and windows of a house from the Perú Street expropriated from the Zuberbuhler Family were used for its construction.
- La manzana de las Luces. Alsina,
Bolívar, Moreno, Perú.
This was the place where the Jesuits made their base in 1633, where they built a church, a primary and secondary schools, a pharmacy, a printing office and their missions’ general office. After their expulsion in 1767, the University of Buenos Aires and the National Congress started working here. The buildings, have underground corridors from the eighteenth century.
- Church of San Ignacio. Bolívar 263
Construction began in 1686, on top of the adobe walls of an earlier temple that stood there and is the oldest in the city. It was the largest Jesuit temple. In the late eighteenth century it functioned as cathedral for the city and became a military barracks during the resistance against the British invasion in 1806.
- Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires.
It is one of the most prestigious in the country. Its history goes back
to the early eighteenth century, although its current name was given in
1863.
- Librería de Ávila. Alsina 500
A corner drugstore opened in 1785 that would be the first store selling books in the city. From 1830 on, it became exclusively a bookstore and one of the intellectual centers of the city. The Librería de Ávila Bookshop is the only store in Buenos Aires that has maintained its original location and kind of business since colonial times.
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