Perú (Buenos Aires Metro)

Metro Station Perú 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 1 December 1913. The metro station is located at the western end of the Plaza de Mayo under the crossing Avenida de Mayo and the eponymous Calle Perú. It offers connecting flights to the subway stations Bolívar ( line E ) and Catedral (line D).

History

Metro Station Perú is part of the opening section of the first subway line in Buenos Aires, between the Plaza de Mayo and Plaza Miserere. The station received two side platforms. Additions are located in the middle of the platform, on the surface, two on the north and south side of the street Avenida de Mayo. The walls are still white tiles, the metal supports and trim dyed brown.

For the 75th anniversary of the opening of the line A 1988, the station was given a restoration in the style of the early 20th century. These included the ticket counter, crowd barriers, lights, advertising posters from 1913 and the original signs on the road access. In 1997, the Metro Station as a National Historic Monument ( monument histórico nacional ) was classified.

Between 2007 and 2008, the concessionaire Metrovías carried out a refurbishment, including all tiles were replaced and in 1988 mounted billboards removed. Various details of the anniversary restoration disappeared also. But in 2008, received the pedestrian tunnel to the neighboring station Catedral a reproduction of Mafalda comic books, in May 2009 added Metrovías the station with historic photographs of line A.

An installation of lifts for disabled passengers is being considered.

Connection

At the Metro station has the transit traffic to numerous buses ( colectivos ) and to the Subte line D ( Catedral station ) and E ( station Bolívar ).