Travel to Buenos Aires 3rd Day

The third day we got up early, at 7 am, and we went to "La Plata city", the trip took 2 hours. When we arrived we stoped the bus near the cathedral, and we knew the square front of the cathedral. Then we went inside to the church and we knew to the museum of the cathedral. In this museum we reachead the top of the building using an elevator, and we saw a great view of the city.
In the lunch we ate in one restaurant a rich food and then we leave and we went to the "La Plata Museum". An interesting museum where you can saw the animals and plants a lot years before and the things in the future. We try to visited the "Estadio Unico of La Plata" but we can't. At sunset we came back to the city and we visited "Abasto Shopping". Of course all of us ate in Mc Donalds, we bought some clothes and we came back very tired to the hotel.

La Plata

La Plata is the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and of La Plata partido. According to the 2001 census, the partido has a population of 574,369 and its metropolitan area has 694,253 inhabitants. The city itself has a population of 186,524.

La Plata was planned and developed to serve as the provincial capital after the city of Buenos Aires was federalized in 1880, and it was officially founded by Governor Dardo Rocha on 19 November 1882. Its construction is fully documented in photographs by Tomás Bradley Sutton. La Plata was renamed Eva Perón City (Ciudad Eva Perón) between 1952 and 1955.

Located in the northeastern province of Buenos Aires, limiting to the northeast with Ensenada and Berisso, northwest with the Berazategui and Florencio Varela, southwest and south, with San Vicente and Coronel Brandsen and southeast with Magdalena, occupying an area of 893 km.next to the antarical ocean drug.

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Cathedral of La Plata

The Cathedral of La Plata, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, is the largest Roman Catholic sanctuary in the city of La Plata in Argentina, and one of the largest in Latin America. This Neogothic edifice is located in the geographical center of the city, facing the central square, Plaza Moreno, and the City Hall. 

Inspired by the European cathedrals of Amiens and Cologne, its plans were drawn by architect Ernesto Meyer under the direction of city planner Pedro Benoit. The cornerstone was laid in 1884, and it was consecrated as the Parroquia Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in 1902. The parish church, which continued undergoing works, was designated a cathedral in 1932.

In the 1930s, fearing that the foundation had been underestimated, workers halted construction. The spires were left unfinished and the exterior brick work was left undressed. In the mid 1990s, an ambitious plan of restoration and completion was carried out. The 1990s plan included the following:

• Strengthening the foundation.
• Reversing the damage in the bricks and joints.
• Completing two spires, six turrets, 200 pinnacles, and 800 needles.
• Installing a 25-bell carillon.

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La Plata Museum

The La Plata Museum is a natural history museum in La Plata, Argentina. It is part of the Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo (Natural Sciences School) of the UNLP (National University of La Plata).

The La Plata Museum was inaugurated on November 19, 1888 (the sixth anniversary of the city's founding). As his collections had been the museum's leitmotif, Moreno was named its first director. Moreno initially struggled to maintain the institution and its collections, a result of sparing legislative appropriations which budgeted for only nine assistants. These limitations helped persuade Moreno to incorporate the museum into the new and growing University of La Plata (today Argentina's second-largest) in 1906. This led to his retirement as director, though by no means of his role as its preeminent caretaker, which occupied him until his death in 1919.

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Pictures of La Plata