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54 unusual facts about Buenos Aires


Andrés Calamaro

In 2005 he released El Regreso (The Return), a compilation of the live recordings from his appearance in the Luna Park Stadium earlier that year.

Antonio García Vega

Collective exhibitions have included participation in the Cuarta bienal Museo de Arte Contemporáneo at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Morelia, Mexico (2003), the Arte Lúdico event at the Alicia Brandy Gallery of Art in Buenos Aires (2005), participation in the Salón de Pintura y Escultura at the Centro Cultural Fox y Museo de Arte de León in León Guanajuato (2005), the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana en Paris event in France(2007) and Aus der Tief (2010) .

Argentine Declaration of Independence

The congress continued its work in Buenos Aires in 1817, but it dissolved in 1820 after the Battle of Cepeda, which deepened the differences between the Unitarian Party, who favored a strong central government, and the Federales, who favored a weak central government.

Augusto Vargas Alzamora

He studied at the Jesuit Philosophical Faculty in San Miguel, Argentina and Madrid.

Avenida Santa Fe

The Greek Revivalist Argentine Scientific Society and the Art Deco Regina Theatre follow and, past Avenida Callao, Santa Fe Avenue enters its Recoleta stretch.

The artery is essential to the imaginary axis of Barrio Norte in Buenos Aires, comprising the areas influenced by the route of the avenue through Retiro, Recoleta and Palermo neighborhoods, it is considered one of the main shopping and strolling areas of the city, its many boutiques range from elegant to edgy, which has led it to be dubbed the 'Avenue of Fashion'.

Barracas Central

Club Atlético Barracas Central is an Argentine football club from the district of Barracas, Buenos Aires.

Blake Mycoskie

While vacationing in Argentina in 2006, Blake spent a day volunteering with a local non-profit organization delivering used shoes to children in the villages outside of Buenos Aires.

Buenos Aires Midland Railway

Today the line as far as General Belgrano is part of Línea Belgrano Sur which has been operated by UGOFE since 2007.

Buenos Aires National Academy of Medicine

The academy's headquarters is a Neoclassical building situated on a corner lot in the upscale Recoleta area of Buenos Aires.

Buenos Aires-class destroyer

The Buenos Aires class destroyers were a group of destroyers built for the Argentine Navy in Britain in the 1930s.

Carmen Lamas

Carmen Lamas (Spain, 1900 - Buenos Aires, 1990) was a Spanish-born tango singer, and the first Spanish actress who made ​​her career in Argentina.

Colegio Nacional de San Isidro

It is located at 165 Acassuso (the address in Spanish would show the street number last), in San Isidro City, Buenos Aires Province, near the San Isidro Cathedral.

Defensores de Belgrano

The stadium was at the Plaza Alberti in the suburb of Belgrano, Buenos Aires.

Delia Parodi

The experience earned her a promotion as a local ombudsman in the Las Cañitas section of Palermo (today an upscale ward in Buenos Aires).

Emilie Schindler

Schindler lived with her pets for many years in her small house in San Vicente, 40 kilometres south-west of Buenos Aires.

Ernesto Duchini

Duchini was born in the Barrio Norte district of Buenos Aires on November 10, 1910, at a young age his family moved to Chacarita where he joined the youth team of Chacarita Juniors in 1922.

Federico Alonso

Federico Alonso Tellechea (born August 15, 1981 in Buenos Aires) is a Spanish sailor.

Ferrocarril General San Martín

In the metropolitan sector of the City of Buenos Aires there is a diesel commuter branch that operates from the Retiro railway terminus in the city-centre northwest to Palomar, Hurlingham and Pilar.

Ferrocarril General Urquiza

In the metropolitan sector of the City of Buenos Aires there is an electrified commuter branch that operates from the Federico Lacroze terminus in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Chacarita, to the General Lemos station in suburban San Miguel.

Francisco Maschio

His stables ( named Stud Yeruá ) was localized at Olleros Street, Palermo, Buenos Aires, near the actual Olleros Station.

Francisco Trimboli

He was born in Buenos Aires in 1933 to Francisco Trimboli and Josefina Pungitore Trimboli.

Franck Comba

He earned his first cap for the France national team on June 13, 1998 against the Argentina at Buenos Aires.

Guillermo Kuitca

Guillermo Kuitca is an Argentinean artist who was born in Buenos Aires in 1961, where he continues to work and live.

Islam in Argentina

The project cost around US$30 million, and includes a mosque, library, two schools, a park, is located in the middle-class district of Palermo, Buenos Aires.

John Frederick Bateman

In winter 1870 he visited Buenos Aires, at the request of the Argentine government, for the purpose of laying out harbour works for that city.

Jorge Giannoni

Shortly thereafter the University of Buenos Aires was pressured by the government of Isabel Perón to close the Institute, and he had to leave the country for Peru, and then Cuba, where he resided until his return to Argentina in 1983.

In Buenos Aires, he created the Instituto de Cine del Tercer Mundo (Third World Film Institute), which was then merged with Raymundo Gleyzer’s Cine de la Base (Cinema of the People).

Jorge Muscia

Jorge Muscia (Buenos Aires, March 6, 1958) is a plastic artist and ‘fileteado’ instructor with over 30 years of experience in his field.

He has received several awards, including a Scholarship of the Fundacion Antorchas for Artistic Creativity (1992) for his Project Tótems Porteños (Resignificación del Obelisco de Buenos Aires).

Josefina Scaglione

Upon graduating from high school, Scaglione moved to Buenos Aires and began working as a musical theatre actress.

Juan Nepomuceno Terrero y Escalada

On April 21, 1898, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and titular bishop of Dercos.

Latécoère 25

The only surviving example of a Latécoère 25 is preserved in the Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica in Morón, Argentina.

Luca Prodan

After some time at the farm in the Traslasierra valley, he settled in Hurlingham (a suburb of Buenos Aires), where he founded and led Sumo and the Hurlingham Reggae Band.

Luis Frangella

Luis Frangella (born Buenos Aires, 1944 - died New York City, 1990) was a figurative post-modern painter and sculptor associated with the expressionist painting of the Lower East Side of New York City in the 1980s.

Luis Juan Tomé

Born in Buenos Aires, Tomé was ordained to the priesthood on April 16, 1938, serving in the archdiocese of Buenos Aires.

Manuel Tato

On November 12, 1948, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and titular bishop of Aulon.

Marcelo Bonevardi

Bonevardi's work has been collected by many leading North American and Latin American museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City; the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires; the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade in São Paulo; and the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City.

Mario José Serra

He served as auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires from 1975 till 2002.

On May 28, 1975, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and titular bishop of Mentesa.

Nelda Ramos

She is a teacher of Visual arts with guidance in ceramics graduated at EMBA School of Fine Arts in Quilmes (Buenos Aires Province) and at IUNA (University of Buenos Aires).

Pablo Bronstein

Pablo Bronstein (born 1977, Buenos Aires) is an artist based in London.

Pablo Saucedo

Pablo Andrés Saucedo (born March 6, 1982 in Moreno, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-born Ecuadorian football central defender who plays for Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy.

Puente Alsina railway station

As part of the privatization of the Argentine railways in 1990’s the private company Metropolitano was granted a concession to operate the service, part of the Linea Belgrano Sur, as far as General Belgrano, from 1 May 1994.

Ramón Verea

Ramón Silvestre Verea Aguiar y García (Curantes, 1833 – Buenos Aires, 1899) was a Spanish journalist, engineer and writer, known as the inventor of a calculator with an internal multiplication table.

Ricardo Primitivo González

Ricardo Primitivo González (born May 12, 1925) is an Argentine former basketball player of Club Atlético Palermo, one of the oldest clubs in Palermo, who captained the Argentine national team that won the 1950 FIBA World Championship.

Richard Shindell

He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with his wife, a university professor, and their children.

San Cayetano

San Cayetano, Buenos Aires capital of San Cayetano Partido, Buenos Aires Province

Santiago Dabove

He was born in Morón, Buenos Aires where he resided his entire life and mostly lived in solitude.

Sophia Ellis

It has competed at the Sitges & Austin film festivals and has gone on to screen in Rome, Little Rock, Buenos Aires, Málaga, Horror Hound and Sacramento Film Festivals.

Tamir Bloom

In May 2000, he won the Western Hemisphere Zonal qualification tournament in Buenos Aires, making the team in his final attempt to qualify for the Olympics.

Tomás Juan Carlos Solari

He served as auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires from 1943 till 1948, when he became archbishop of La Plata.

On August 23, 1943, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and titular bishop of Aulon.

Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout

It was organized in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, while the end-game bits were shot with anchor Shah Rukh Khan at the Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai.


2010 Fórmula Truck season

Other victories were taken by Giaffone's team-mate Valmir Benavides, who triumphed at Caruaru, Geraldo Piquet won the series' only race outside of Brazil in Buenos Aires, while Iveco took a solitary victory with Beto Monteiro winning at Velopark.

Alstom Metropolis

The trains are in service in 22 major cities around the world, representing more than 3000 cars, including Singapore, Shanghai, Budapest, Warsaw, Nanjing, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Lima, Santiago de Chile, Barcelona, Istanbul and Santo Domingo.

Amelia Goes to the Ball

Amelia al ballo is still periodically performed, with productions in the 2008/2009 seasons in Vichy, Buenos Aires, and São Paulo, as well as a 2010 double bill with Menotti's The Telephone in Tours, using the 2006 co-production by Lausanne Opera and the Opéra Comique.

Avenida Roque Sáenz Peña

Avenida Roque Sáenz Peña (also known as Diagonal Norte), is a main artery in the San Nicolás quarter of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Bolivian War of Independence

On November 11, the representative of the Junta of Seville, José Manuel de Goyeneche, arrived in Chuquisaca, after stopping in Buenos Aires, with instructions to secure Upper Peru's recognition of authority of the Seville Junta.

Buenos Aires–Rosario–Córdoba high-speed railway

Today, the service is disrupted by serious deficiencies and delays and takes over seven hours, more than the service provided in the '50s by "El Marplatense" with speeds of up to 90 + mph (150 km/h) making the run in 3 hrs 45 min in then cutting edge Budd-built formations.

Cobblestone

Many cities in Latin America, such as Buenos Aires, Argentina; Zacatecas and Guanajuato, in Mexico; Old San Juan, Puerto Rico and Montevideo, Uruguay, richly influenced by many European architectural features, are well known for their many cobblestone streets, which are still operational and in good condition.

Colegio Nacional de San Isidro

The Colegio Nacional de San Isidro (CNSI) is a public institution of secondary education located in San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Corbeta Uruguay base

This ship is now a floating museum, permanently berthed in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires.

Darío Husaín

Darío Husaín (born May 2, 1976 in Haedo Buenos Aires) is an Argentine footballer currently is a free agent.

Darwin's Rhea

The specific name was bestowed in 1834 by Darwin's contemporary and rival Alcide d'Orbigny who first described the bird to Europeans, from a specimen from the lower Río Negro south of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso

Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso (Concordia, Entre Ríos, January 17 1917 - Buenos Aires, July 13, 2000) was an Argentine researcher who explored the possibility of colonization of the Americas by several antique ethnic groups.

El gran teatro

The whole action of the novel takes place during a performance of Wagner's Parsifal at Buenos Aires' famous opera house, the Teatro Colón.

Ethnography of Argentina

Buenos Aires itself is said to have over 100,000 practicing Jews, making it one of the largest Jewish urban centers in the world (see also History of the Jews in Argentina).

Fabricio Poci

Fabricio Leonel Poci (born 10 April 1986 in Buenos Aires), is an Argentinian footballer with Italian citizenship who plays for A.O.Chania in the Greek Football League, as a midfielder.

Ferrocarril General Roca

In the metropolitan sector of the City of Buenos Aires the Línea Roca operates from the city-centre terminus of Estación Constitución south to Alejandro Korn, Cañuelas, and La Plata, and west to Haedo.

Guillermo Leaden

On May 28, 1975 he was appointed Titular Bishop of Theudalis and Auxiliary Bishop of the Buenos Aires and was ordained August 8, 1975.

Horacio Agulla

Horacio Agulla attended St. Felipe The Apostle School in Don Torcuato, a suburb in The Province of Buenos Aires).

Javier Saviola

Nicknamed El Conejo (The Rabbit), Buenos Aires-born Saviola made his debut for Club Atlético River Plate at the age of 16, and went on to be a prolific goalscorer for the club.

John Esplen

He then became a partner in his father's firm and helped to establish branches in London, Cardiff, Buenos Aires, New York City and Montevideo.

Jorge D'Alessandro

Born in Buenos Aires, D'Alessandro played six years in his country with San Lorenzo de Almagro, being part of the squads that won four national championships.

Juan Manuel Abal Medina, Jr.

He entered public service in 2000 as Director of the National Public Administration Institute under President Fernando de la Rúa, and in 2001 was appointed Political and Legislative Director for Buenos Aires Mayor Aníbal Ibarra, later serving Ibarra as Director of Strategic Planning from 2003 to 2005.

Karen J. Warren

She has spoken widely on environmental issues, feminism, critical thinking skills and peace studies in many international locations including Buenos Aires, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Oslo, Manitoba, Melbourne, Moscow, Perth, the U.N. Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro (1992), and San Jose.

La Violencia

These included the director of Crítica magazine Jorge Zalamea fleeing to Buenos Aires, Luis Vidales to Chile, Antonio Garcia to La Paz, and Gerardo Molina to Paris.

Lautaro Baeza

Lautaro Manuel Baeza (born February 17, 1990 in Merlo (Buenos Aires), Argentina) is an Argentine naturalized Chilean footballer who playing for Rangers of the Primera División in Chile.

Loncopán

Of nomadic character, the tschen travelled through the south area of the provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa and Cordoba.

Marcelino Nicolas Lopez

Marcelino Nicolas Lopez (born May 6, 1986 in Arribenos, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a boxer in the Lightweight division.

María Eugenia Vidal

Affiliated with the Republican Proposal party, she was appointed Minister of Social Development of the City of Buenos Aires, and in 2011 was elected Deputy Mayor.

Mauricio Solaún

Solaún has been a visiting professor at the Universidad de los Andes and the Universidad Pontificia Javeriana in Bogotá, the Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires, and the Universidad Católica de Valparaíso in Chile.

May Maxwell

Mary "May" Maxwell (née Bolles; born 14 January 1870 in Englewood, New Jersey; died 1 March 1940 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an early American member of the Bahá'í Faith.

Mercedes Marcó del Pont

Mercedes Marcó del Pont was born and raised in the northside of Buenos Aires.

Michel Tapié

Tapié organized and curated scores of exhibitions of new and modern art in major cities all over the world, including not only Paris and Turin but also New York, Rome, Tokyo, Munich, Madrid, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Milan, and Osaka.

Miro Gavran

There have been first nights of his plays throughout the world, in: Rotterdam, Washington, D.C., Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Buenos Aires, Waterford, Mumbai, Bratislava, Prague, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Krakow, Belgrade, Budapest, Athens, Augsburg, Vienna and Sofia.

Pasaje Del Terror

Pasaje Del Terror is an interactive walk-through horror attraction with branches in thirty different cities in Spain, including Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Seville, Malaga, Salou, Santander, etc. as well as some of the major cities of the world, such as Rome, Lisbon, Blackpool, Buenos Aires, Bariloche, Cancun, San Salvador and Tokyo.

Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola

D'Oriola, riding Pomone B, was the gold medal World Champion in show jumping at Buenos Aires in 1966.

Raúl Uranga – Carlos Sylvestre Begnis Subfluvial Tunnel

Until the opening of the Rosario-Victoria Bridge, this was the only road link between two commercially important and populous regions of Argentina, and the only one between the two provinces (more to the south, Entre Ríos is connected to the province of Buenos Aires by the Zárate-Brazo Largo Bridge).

Sergio Vento

After having served in various positions in Den Haag, Buenos Aires and Ankara, he had been diplomatic councillor to the following Italian Prime Ministers: Giuliano Amato, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Silvio Berlusconi, Lamberto Dini.

Taksim Square massacre

This mode of operation recalls the June 20, 1973 Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, when the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (aka Triple A), founded by José López Rega (a P2 member), opened up fire on the left-wing Peronists.

Trident Music

Trident Music is an independent record label based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Uruguayan people

The famed tango singer Carlos Gardel was born in Toulouse, France, then raised in Buenos Aires, but as an adult he obtained legal papers saying he was born in Tacuarembó, probably to avoid French military authorities.

Victor Zâmbrea

His works are found in private and public collections in Paris, Bucharest, Moscow, Kiev, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Riga, Vilnius, Timişoara, Braşov, Odessa, Nikolaev, Tumen, Novokuznetsk, Esentuki, Sighetu Marmaţiei.

Water supply and sanitation in Latin America

The most notable cancellations include the concession for Aguas Argentinas in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the concessions for Cochabamba and La Paz, Bolivia.

Woodbine Parish

In 1839 he published Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de la Plata, an account of the geology of the Buenos Aires and Río de la Plata region and his findings of mammalian fossils, presenting Megatherium bones which were assembled and exhibited in the Natural History Museum, London.