Parque Centenario
The Parque Centenario is a public park in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires . It is located in the Caballito district .
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Due to the rapid growth of the city, in 1908 the city council approved the purchase of 10 hectares of land to create a public park. Carlos Thays , who had also designed numerous other areas in the capital, was commissioned with the design . In 1910 the new park was completed and was named Parque Centenario to commemorate the centenary of the May Revolution of 1810.
A number of cultural and scientific institutions have settled around the park over the years, including the Pasteur Institute (opened in 1927), the Marie Curie Institute (1931), the Natural Science Museum of Buenos Aires (1937) and the Argentine Friends of astronomy who opened an observatory in the park in 1942 . In 1951, President Juan Perón inaugurated an amphitheater , but it burned down in 1955. Mayor Osvaldo Cacciatore had an over 2000 m² lake built, which is now a popular running route.
In the 1980s the park was badly neglected, in 1989 a bronze sculpture by Luis Perlotti was stolen. In 2005, Mayor Aníbal Ibarra initiated a comprehensive renovation, which included the reconstruction of the amphitheater that had burned down and the rehabilitation of the lake. The work was completed in May 2009 and the amphitheater was inaugurated with a performance of the Orquesta de Tango de la Ciudad .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clarín dated May 8, 2009 - accessed on April 26, 2010 (Spanish) ( Memento of the original dated May 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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Coordinates: 34 ° 36 ′ 23 ″ S , 58 ° 26 ′ 8 ″ W.