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19-415: The rapid northward growth of the city of Buenos Aires during the late nineteenth century was facilitated by plans for a number of boulevards in the area by Mayor Torcuato de Alvear . Shortly after the opening of Viceroy Vértiz Avenue (today Avenida del Libertador ) in 1906, a parallel boulevard was begun to serve the numerous upscale neighborhoods planned for the largely undeveloped northside. Planned with

38-546: A building named "La Maestranza" in the west corner. The Avenue was a main road in fifth, with ombúes on both sides. After the defeat of Rosas in Caseros the Big House was used for several years as a military college and then as Naval School , and finally demolished on February 3, 1899. The following year, on 25 May, the monument inaugurated in place to Sarmiento, designed by Auguste Rodin . Moreover, La Maestranza building

57-508: A porch in his initiation (at Santa Fe Avenue ) known as the Gates of Palermo. These gave an elegant air and stretched from the entrance to the Zoo to the entrance of La Rural . They had three covers for the passage of carriages and two high arches on the sidewalks for pedestrians. Its gates railings had been forged in the smithy famous Zamboni Silvestre (Rivadavia and Talcahuano). Overnight closed to

76-584: Is the located the monument to Justo Jose de Urquiza . Across the avenue on the left side is located the Galileo Galilei planetarium , and on the right the Egypt square. Last ride of the avenue, passing under the railways bridges of San Martin and Mitre lines, and crossing a tunnel on the north branch of the Belgrano , is the end of the avenue, in a roundabout crossing the avenue Rafael Obligado where

95-704: The Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club , the City Velodrome and the Regata Lake, it enters the Belgrano neighborhood, where it ends at Guillermo Udaondo Avenue, past the River Plate football stadium . 34°34′52″S 58°23′51″W  /  34.58103°S 58.39737°W  / -34.58103; -58.39737 Torcuato de Alvear Torcuato de Alvear y Saenz de la Quintanilla ( Montevideo , 1822 – Buenos Aires , 1890)

114-675: The Palermo neighborhood, in Buenos Aires , Argentina . It runs from Plaza Italia to the Costanera Rafael Obligado Avenue, across the Parque Tres de Febrero . When Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas installed its fifth resting on the grounds of the present Parque Tres de Febrero built the main house ( Big House of Roses ) in what today would be the intersection of Sarmiento Avenue and Libertador , and

133-472: The Palermo section of the city, the avenue leaves its residential surroundings, traveling through parks and other public areas for the remaining stretches. Cutting through urbanist Carlos Thays ' vast Parque Tres de Febrero , it affords a view of his extensive rose garden and of the Galileo Galilei planetarium , opened in 1966. The intersection with Sarmiento Avenue features Renzo Baldi and Héctor Rocha's Monument to General Justo José de Urquiza . Passing by

152-717: The San Martín National Institute and monument to José de San Martín anchor the leafy Barrio Parque neighborhood. The Institute is housed in a 1946 replica of the Liberator's Boulogne-sur-Mer residence in his later years. Along the other side of the avenue, businessman Eduardo Constantini opened his Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires (MALBA) in 2001. Passing by the Buenos Aires Japanese Gardens in

171-616: The Zoo and exhibition center of La Rural . It continues along the zoo and Francisco Seeber square, until the intersection with the Libertador Avenue , is at this junction the Monument to the Carta Magna and Four Regions of Argentina . in front of this is the monument to Domingo Faustino Sarmiento branch made by the famous French escurltor, Auguste Rodin . 300 meters later, at the intersection with Figueroa Alcorta Avenue

190-733: The Buenos Aires Palais de Glace in the upscale Recoleta section. Passing by the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Law , the monumental Neoclassic structure dating from the administration of President Juan Perón (who had it built in the early 1950s as the future headquarters of the CGT , Argentina's largest labor union), the avenue also travels behind the National Fine Arts Museum and past United Nations Plaza. There, architect Eduardo Catalano installed

209-536: The assistance of French Argentine urbanist Carlos Thays and around his recent remodeling of Parque Tres de Febrero , the thoroughfare was opened on the 1910 centennial of the May Revolution that led to independence and was, accordingly, named Avenida Centenario . Thays also designed a new residential neighborhood anchored around the new avenue: Barrio Parque , opened for development in 1912. The Sanitation Works Commission's massive water reclamation plant

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228-454: The climate and terrain and began to deteriorate, and to be turned into a kind of column with a tuft of withered leaves on top, popular with the nicknamed "the brooms and dusters Sarmiento" and the "Avenue of the Brooms". Eventually they were replaced by bananas, which still stand today. In a plane Pedro Uzal, 1879 the track was already included with the name of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. It had

247-530: The iconic Floralis Genérica in 2001. Past UN Plaza, the avenue passes by Argentine Public Television Studios, an extensive Modernist structure opened in 1978 and known locally for its roof garden. The studios are visually complemented by the reflecting pools in Rubén Darío Plaza and by the Chilean Embassy, a smaller, modernist building built in 1969. Behind the adjoining Chile Plaza,

266-490: The passage of carts, to which in the early years were charged tolls ($ 5) as the riders ($ 3) by a law of 1878. But a few years will not be overcharged. Between 1877 and 1912, compared to the solar where now stands the Galileo Galilei planetarium , Café Hansen worked with entrance by the avenue, which many consider one of the cradles of tango . In 1917 the gates were demolished. The avenue begins in Plaza Italia , facing

285-475: The road and street networks, the water and electricity supply, public transport and street lighting and other public services. This article about the history of Argentina is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a mayor in Argentina is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Avenida Sarmiento Avenida General Sarmiento is an avenue located in

304-403: Was an Argentine conservative politician. He was the son of soldier and statesman Carlos María de Alvear and father of Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear , president of Argentina from 1922 to 1928. He was also a Freemason. In 1880 Buenos Aires was declared the capital city of Argentina , and Torcuato de Alvear served as the first mayor of the city until 1887. During this period he improved

323-441: Was demolished in 1924 and the site was a monument to Rosas, work of Ricardo Dalla Lasta opened in 1999. For project and momentum of President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (ruled 1868-1874) the area was improving, and in 1883, being Mayor Torcuato de Alvear , tropical palms were placed on both sides, according to the desire and impulse Sarmiento a decade ago and was called Avenida de las Palmeras . But these palms were not adapted to

342-423: Was later graced by tennis and country clubs, parks and a number of monumental public buildings, though its boulevard medians were removed around 1970 to accommodate growing traffic. Excavations along the avenue in 2008 uncovered remains of the former Hansen's Café , among the city's first and most popular tango redoubts until its demolition in 1912. A one way thoroughfare, the avenue begins at its eastern end past

361-533: Was subsequently built along the avenue's northern stretch. Chrysler Motors opened an assembly plant on the avenue in 1932 (since demolished), an investment complemented by a testing facility housed in an ornate structure north of Barrio Parque (the former facility today houses condominiums and an automobile museum). The northern end of the avenue became home to the River Plate Football Club 's monumental stadium , finished in 1938. The avenue

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