Sáenz Peña Metro Station

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Sáenz Peña Metro Station
Construction of the underground station, 1912

The subway station Sáenz Peña is a station of line A of Buenos Aires Underground and is part of the section Plaza de Mayo - Plaza Miserere , which opened the first of the network on 1 December 1913th The subway station is located below the western end of Avenida de Mayo between the eponymous Calle Luis Sáenz Peña and Calle San José. The namesake of both the street and the train station is Luis Sáenz Peña , Argentine president between 1892 and 1985.

history

The Sáenz Peña metro station went into operation on December 1, 1913 , along with the section between Plaza de Mayo and Plaza Miserere . This station also received the usual side platforms, the station furniture, the columns and decorative strips were given a dark blue paint. The walls are tiled in white.

In 1997 the metro station was classified as a national historical monument (monumento histórico nacional) .

In the past few years, various renovation measures have taken place in the station, including a renewal of the wall tiles, an elevation of the platforms and the installation of an escalator .

Connection

At the underground station you can change to numerous buses (colectivos) .

line course
Línea A (SBASE) bullet.svg 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

  1. oA: Decreto 437/97. Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas Públicas / Centro de Documentación y Información, May 16, 1997, accessed March 20, 2013 .

Web links

Commons : Sáenz Peña (Subterráneo Buenos Aires)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 34 ° 36 ′ 34 ″  S , 58 ° 23 ′ 12.5 ″  W.