fourth part

El Calafate-Buenos Aires

Bus tour of the city of Buenos Aires.





Buenos Aires is the Federal Capital of the Argentina Republic. It is an autonomous city, very large and populous, with 15.594.428 inhabitants concentrated in an area of 307. 571 km2 is the area most densely populated of the country, this is equivalent to 33 per cent of the total population. Buenos Aires this becomes the fourth megacities of the 17 existing in the world, and the third Latin American urban agglomeration.



 

Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina.



Stadium Boca Juniors

Time to return to the starting point for travel to Argentina Buenos Aires where we spent a couple of days in the company of excellent friends who joined us and guided us to know the most important city of Buenos Aires.

Visit the Children's Museum in Buenos Aires.

At this stage of the journey but we are dedicated to entertaining the girls visited the zoo, the museum for children to enjoy their trip, tour the city in wagons with horses and celebrate the birthday of his mom. Before returning to Houston.

Puerto Madero.

 La Fragata Presidente Sarmiento: Provides a sample inherent to the Navy in the country of the late nineteenth and first half of current educational trips and ports where landfall. This ship, launched for the first time in 1897, was present at the coronation of King Edward VII of Great Britain, of Alfonso XII of Spain, the British George V, on the centenary of the Independence of Mexico in the opening of the Canal Panama, and many other historic occasions. A photographic record on board aware of them. The ship is visited by thousands of people every year.



Puente de la Mujer: Designed by the architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava Valencia home, this bridge has set a new rotary profile in the city in the exclusive area of ​​Puerto Madero, joining the two fronts that have expanded the city to the River Plata. The work was entirely made ​​in Spain and was donated to the City by the businessman Alberto Gonzalez. The bridge is 160 m long by 5 m wide with a metal arm of 39 m is observed from different points of the area. Modern features, and great beauty, the work embodies the image of a couple dancing a tango. She is represented by the curved bridge and the man by the white mast that rises to the top. It has a swivel mechanism unique in the world led by a computer, which lets you move and rotate each time a boat passes.

Puerto Madero: This neighborhood is the conversion of the old dikes and docks that made the old port of Buenos Aires, to a recreational activity, constituted quickly, because of its proximity to downtown, in a very touristy place. Large buildings that make up the docks, brick English style, was demolished one

side of the dike and transformed in the side facing the city being occupied by a large number of restaurants, cinemas, offices and even a university, on the other side built a hotel, housing and other buildings are being converted as stores of grain, while some modern buildings were added in places where there was buildings. In the dams were berths for private yachts and military vessels spaces for some traditional attractions such as the Corvette Uruguay and the Fragata Sarmiento. Although this conversion, it meant something very positive for the city, as these areas were abandoned when used as port facilities of Puerto Nuevo, also had some negative aspects. For example, despite having opened a new public promenade outside, most of the buildings were occupied by private projects generally a very limited class, good income, without reserving any space for public activities of the city, as it could be a cultural center, sports, museums, and so on. Furthermore, the absence of a strong policy of historic preservation in the city, allowed the destruction of it in some cases.