Parque Centenario

The Parque Centenario is a public park in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires. It is located in the Caballito neighborhood.

Overview

Due to the rapid growth of the city, the city council approved the 1908 purchase of 10 acres of land for construction of a public park. With the design was commissioned Carlos Thays, who also designed many other areas of the capital. 1910, the new park was completed and was named Parque Centenario to commemorate the hundred - year anniversary of the May Revolution of 1810.

Around the park settled over the years a number of cultural and scientific institutions, among them the Pasteur Institute (opening 1927), the Marie Curie Institute (1931 ), the Natural Science Museum of Buenos Aires (1937) and the Argentine friends of Astronomy in the park opened an observatory in 1942. 1951 inaugurated President Juan Perón an amphitheater, but the 1955 burned down. Mayor Osvaldo Cacciatore was to create a 2,000 m² large lake, which is popular as a running route today.

In the 1980s, the park was badly neglected, even a 1989 bronze sculpture by Luis Perlotti was stolen. Mayor Aníbal Ibarra in 2005 initiated a comprehensive renovation, including the reconstruction of the amphitheater and spent to rehabilitate the lake belonged. The work was completed in May 2009 and inaugurated the amphitheater with a performance of the Orquesta de Tango de la Ciudad.