Plaza de Mayo Metro Station
The Plaza de Mayo metro station is a station on Line A of the Subterráneos de Buenos Aires and was opened together with the Plaza de Mayo - Plaza Miserere section as the first of the network on December 1, 1913. The subway station is located at the eastern end of the eponymous Plaza de Mayo under Calle Hipólito Yrigoyen , south of the seat of government of the Argentine President, the Casa Rosada .
history
Plaza de Mayo Metro Station is part of the opening section of the first Buenos Aires metro line between Plaza de Mayo and Plaza Miserere . As is customary in Buenos Aires, the end of the line was a central platform with exits at both ends. The walls are tiled in white to this day, and the metal supports are colored light blue. The trains end right at the platform at a buffer stop.
When the station opened and before that, the square in front of the president's seat of government was always one of the most important places in the city of Buenos Aires and Argentina. Numerous protests, demonstrations and gatherings have taken place there throughout Argentina's history. In 1953, during a speech given by President Perón to members of the CGT trade union , a bomb exploded, killing between five and seven people and causing serious damage to the subway station.
Something similar happened two years later on June 16, 1955 when the Plaza de Mayo was bombed - at the same time Perón also gave a speech to his followers. This time, too, the subway station was damaged. At the southern exit there is still a commemorative plaque in memory of the victims of the massacre.
In 1997 the metro station was classified as a national historical monument (monumento histórico nacional) .
Connection
At the underground station you can change to numerous buses (colectivos) .
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Plaza de Mayo - Perú - Piedras - Lima - Sáenz Peña - Congreso - Pasco - Alberti - Plaza Miserere - Loria - Castro Barros - Río de Janeiro - Acoyte - Primera Junta - Puán - Carabobo - San José de Flores - San Pedrito |
Individual evidence
- ↑ oA: Decreto 437/97. Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas Públicas / Centro de Documentación y Información, May 16, 1997, accessed March 20, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 34 ° 36 ′ 31.6 ″ S , 58 ° 22 ′ 14.5 ″ W.