Avenida Figueroa Alcorta

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View of the Avenida in the area of Barrio Parque
Course of the Avenida Figueroa Alcorta

The Avenida Figueroa Alcorta is a major thoroughfare in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires . It is about 4.5 km long and runs through the districts of Recoleta , Palermo and Belgrano in the north of the city. It was named after José Figueroa Alcorta (1860-1931), who was President of Argentina from 1906 to 1910.

history

The rapid expansion of the city towards the north towards the end of the 19th century goes hand in hand with the planning of some boulevards in the area by the then mayor Torcuato de Alvear . Shortly after the opening of Avenida Viceroy Vértiz (today's Avenida del Libertador ), construction began on a parallel boulevard in 1906. This also happened with regard to the planning of upscale residential areas in the then largely undeveloped north of Buenos Aires.

With the support of the French landscape architect and city planner Carlos Thays and at the same time as the redesign of Parque Tres de Febrero , Avenida Figueroa Alcorta was inaugurated as Avenida Centenario in 1910 on the anniversary of the May Revolution . Thays also designed a new residential area along the Avenida, the Barrio Parque , a district of Palermo , which was opened for development in 1912.

In 1932 Chrysler opened a factory on Avenida Figueroa Alcorta (no longer existing today). This also included a test route north of Barrio Parque, which also no longer exists. Today there are multi-family houses and a car museum.

At the western end of the Avenida is now the Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti , home of the CA River Plate football club , which was completed in 1938. Tennis and country clubs, parks and a number of important public buildings were added later. In the 1970s, however, the Avenida was redesigned to cope with the increasing car traffic.

Excavations in 2008 uncovered the remains of Hansen's Café, which was demolished in 1912 and was one of the city's first tango halls.

course

Avenida Figueroa Alcorta is a one-way street that begins in the east of Buenos Aires at the Palais de Glace , in the Recoleta district.

It then leads past the law school of the University of Buenos Aires , a monumental building in neoclassical style from the 1950s. The building was originally built as the headquarters of the CGT , the largest Argentine union. Next up is the Museum of Fine Arts and in Parque Thays, the United Nations Square with Eduardo Catalano's Floralis Genérica . Behind the plaza, the avenue leads past the television studios of Canal 7 , a modernist-style building from 1978 known for its roof garden. The studios are visually complemented by the water basins in Plaza Rubén Darío and the Chilean embassy. This is followed by the Instituto San Martín and a memorial in memory of José de San Martín . The institute is housed in a replica of the house in San Martín in Boulogne-sur-Mer (France). Across the street is the Museum of Latin American Art , which opened in 2001.

The Avenida then passes the Japanese Garden and then leads through other parks and public areas. In the Parque Tres de Febrero you can see the rose garden (El Rosedal) and the planetarium from the Avenida. This is followed by a tennis club, the Buenos Aires Velodrome and a lake used for rowing regattas. In the Belgrano district, Avenida Figueroa Alcorta ends on Avenida Guillermo Udaondo, behind the CA River Plate stadium.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Palermonline.com
  2. ↑ Barrios y Ciudades: Recoleta ( Memento from July 17, 2011 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Auto-historia.com
  4. ↑ http://www.sitioriverplatense.com.ar/sitio09/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=63 (link not available)
  5. ↑ Clarín of December 27, 2008

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Coordinates: 34 ° 39 ′ 44.7 ″  S , 58 ° 38 ′ 40.4 ″  W.