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 neighborhoods of Recoleta, Palermo and Belgrano to 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 northwards towards the end of the 19th century associated with the planning of some boulevards in the area by the then Mayor Torcuato de Alvear. Shortly after the opening of the Avenida Viceroy Vértiz (today Avenida del Libertador ) was established in 1906 started the construction of a parallel leading boulevards. This happened also with regard to the planning upscale residential neighborhood in the then largely undeveloped north of Buenos Aires.

With the support of the French landscape architect and urban planner Carlos Thays and at the same time the transformation of the Parque Tres de Febrero on the anniversary of the May Revolution Avenida Figueroa Alcorta 1910 was inaugurated as the Avenida Centenario. Thay also designed a new neighborhood along the Avenida, the Barrio Parque, a suburb of Palermo, which was released in 1912 for cultivation.

1932 Chrysler opened a factory on Avenida Figueroa Alcorta (now defunct ). This included a test track north of Barrio Parque, which no longer exists also. Today there are apartment buildings and a car museum.

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

2008 excavations brought to light remains of the demolished in 1912 Hansen 's Café, one of the first tango halls in the city.

Course

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

Then takes you to the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires, a monumental building in the neoclassical style of the 1950s, over. The building was originally built as the headquarters of the CGT, the largest Argentine union. Next, you can see the Museum of Fine Arts and the Parque Thays the United Nations with the Floralis Genérica by Eduardo Catalano Square. Behind the Plaza Avenida leads past the television studios of Canal 7, a building in modernist style of 1978, which is known for its roof garden. The studios are visually complemented by the pool of water at the Plaza Rubén Darío and the Chilean Embassy. Then the Instituto San Martín and a monument to commemorate José de San Martín follow. The Institute is housed in a replica of the dwelling house of San Martín in Boulogne -sur -Mer ( France). On the other side of the street stands the Museum of Latin American Art, which opened in 2001.

The Avenida then passes through the Japanese Garden and then performs other parks and public spaces. Parque Tres de Febrero you can from Avenida rose garden (El Rosedal ) and see the planetarium. Here are a tennis club, the velodrome of Buenos Aires and a lake that is used for rowing regattas. In the Belgrano district of Avenida Figueroa Alcorta the ends at Avenida Guillermo Udaondo, behind the stadium from CA River Plate.