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The Best Attractions In La Plata

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La Plata is the capital city of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. According to the 2001 census [INDEC], it has a population of 765,378 and its metropolitan area has 899,523 inhabitants. La Plata was planned and developed to serve as the provincial capital after the city of Buenos Aires was federalized in 1880. It was officially founded by Governor Dardo Rocha on 19 November 1882. Its construction is fully documented in photographs by Tomás Bradley Sutton. La Plata was briefly known as Ciudad Eva Perón between 1952 and 1955. The city is home to two important first division football teams: Estudiantes de La Plata and Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata.
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  • 1. Catedral de la Plata La Plata
    Cerro Catedral is a mountain located 19 kilometres from San Carlos de Bariloche, and inside the Nahuel Huapí National Park, Patagonia, Argentina. The mountain is the biggest ski center in South America and in the Southern Hemisphere, with a skiable area of 6 km2 , 120 km of ski runs, and a lift capacity of 35,000 skiers per hour. It is also popular due to the views of the Nahuel Huapi lake. There are also a number of hotels and hostels at the foot of the mountain, and a summer hikers' hut called Refugio Lynch on one of the tops of the mountain. During the summer, the Refugio Frey and a camping accommodate trekkers and rock climbers next to Tonček lagoon, near the Torre Principal; Catedral's highest point. On August 27, 2005, the 1st South American Ski Mountaineering Championship in combi...
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  • 2. Museo de La Plata La Plata
    The La Plata Museum is a natural history museum in La Plata, Argentina. It is part of the Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo of the UNLP . The building, 135 meters long, today houses 3 million fossils and relics , an amphitheatre, opened in 1992, and a 58,000-volume library, serving over 400 university researchers. Around 400,000 visitors pass through its doors yearly, including a thousand visiting researchers.
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  • 3. Republica de los Ninos La Plata
    Argentina , officially named the Argentine Republic , is a country located mostly in the southern half of South America. Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, the country is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. With a mainland area of 2,780,400 km2 , Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world, the fourth largest in the Americas, and the largest Spanish-speaking nation. The sovereign state is subdivided into twenty-three provinces and one autonomous city , Buenos Aires, which is the federal capital of the nation as decided by Congress. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argen...
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  • 4. Teatro Municipal Coliseo Podesta La Plata
    The Teatro Municipal Coliseo Podestá is located on the streets 46 and 47, avenue 10 , City of La Plata, capital of the Buenos Aires Province, en Argentina. Teatro Italian horseshoe by Uruguayan Carlos Zehndorf was originally called Teatro Politeama Olimpo opened on 19 November 1886 with the opera of Gioachino Rossini, The Barber of Seville by tenor Roberto Stagno and Gemma Bellincioni. The following year was bought by Juan José Podestá, who makes it into the headquarters of his representations rioplatense pioneer theater company. Here, operas premiered before of Buenos Aires and acted important figures as Remete Lacconi, Margarita Xirgu, Marian Anderson, Arthur Rubinstein, Lola Membrives and others.
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  • 7. Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata La Plata
    Club Estudiantes de La Plata , simply referred to as Estudiantes [estuˈðjantes], is an Argentine professional sports club based in La Plata. The club's football team currently competes in the Primera División, where it has spent most of its history. The club is amongst the most successful teams in Argentina. In 1967, Estudiantes was the first team outside the traditional big five to win a professional league title. Since then, the squad has won four more league titles to bring the total to five. It has had even greater international success, having won six international titles. Estudiantes' international silverware consists of four Copa Libertadores , an Intercontinental Cup, and an Interamerican Cup. The club was founded in 1905 when a group of players and fans decided to break away fr...
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  • 8. Parque Alberti La Plata
    Parque Patricios Station is a station on Line H of the Buenos Aires Underground. It was inaugurated on October 4, 2011. It will be the line's southern terminus until such time as Hospitales Station opens.
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  • 9. Plaza Rivadavia La Plata
    The Plaza de Mayo is a city square and main foundational site of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was formed in 1884 after the demolition of the Recova building, unifying the city's Plaza Mayor and Plaza de Armas, by that time known as Plaza de la Victoria and Plaza 25 de Mayo respectively. The city centre of Buenos Aires, Plaza de Mayo has been the scene of the most momentous events in Argentine history, as well as the largest popular demonstrations in the country. On the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the May Revolution in 1811, the Pirámide de Mayo was inaugurated in the square's hub, becoming Buenos Aires' first national monument. It is located in the financial district known as microcentro, within the barrio of Monserrat. It is bounded by Bolívar, Hipólito Yrigoyen, Balcarce an...
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  • 11. Estadio Jorge Luis Hirschi La Plata
    Estadio Jorge Luis Hirschi was a football stadium in La Plata, Argentina. It was the home field of Estudiantes de La Plata. The stadium is named after Jorge Luis Hirschi, who served as Estudiantes' president between 1927 and 1932, and is located on 1st Avenue between 55th and 57th Streets. It is thus also known as 1 y 57. It was formally inaugurated on 25 December 1907. The arena was the venue where Estudiantes obtained the 1913 amateur league title, and where fans enjoyed los profesores , the famous 1930s offensive line of Lauri-Scopelli-Zozaya-Ferreyra-Guayta. In 1937, a new lighting system was installed, and the stadium became the first major venue in Argentina to host night games. In its initial incarnation the stadium held up to 28,000 people, mostly standing-room, even though securit...
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  • 13. Curutchet House La Plata
    The Curutchet House, La Plata, Argentina, is a building by Le Corbusier. It was commissioned by Dr. Pedro Domingo Curutchet, a surgeon, in 1948 and included a small medical office on the ground floor. The house consists of four main levels with a courtyard between the house and the clinic. The building faces the Paseo del Bosque park. The main facade incorporates a brise soleil.
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