Piedras (Buenos Aires Metro)

Metro Station Piedras 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 intersection of Avenida de Mayo and the eponymous Calle Piedras. Named the road as the train station after the Battle of Río de Las Piedras (Salta ) in 1812 in the Revolutionary War between the Spanish Kingdom and the United Provinces of Río de la Plata.

History

Metro Station Piedras included under the section of the first subway line in Buenos Aires, between the Plaza de Mayo and Plaza Miserere. Like all normal passage stations received two side platforms of the railway station. To distinguish with the other stations this was a dark green paint on the station furniture. The walls are still white tiles.

In 1997, the Metro Station as a National Historic Monument ( monument histórico nacional ) was classified.

Connection

At the Metro station has the transit traffic to numerous buses ( colectivos ).