17-1093: Palacio Municipal may refer to: City government headquarters [ edit ] Palacio Municipal de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires , Argentina Palacio Municipal de Zapopan , Jalisco, Mexico Palacio Municipal in San Miguel de Cozumel , Quintana Roo, Mexico Palacio Municipal de Lima , Peru Palacio Municipal de Miraflores , Lima, Peru Palacio Municipal (Montevideo) , Uruguay Palacio Municipal de Caracas , Venezuela Sports facilities [ edit ] Palacio Municipal de Deportes de Granada , Granada, Spain Palacio Municipal de Deportes San Pablo , Seville, Spain Palacio de los Deportes de León , León, Spain Other places [ edit ] IFEMA Palacio Municipal , in Madrid, Spain Palacio Municipal (Mexibús) ,
34-490: A Jefe de Gobierno (elected Mayor), and the city council by the Buenos Aires City Legislature . Shortly before the historic, June 30, 1996, elections to these posts, however, a senior Peronist Senator , Antonio Cafiero , succeeded in limiting the city's autonomy by advancing National Law 24.588, which reserved control of the 25,000-strong Policía Federal (the federally administered city police),
51-488: A time capsule which included the construction permit among other mementoes. The works themselves cost the city a modest 150,000 pesos (US$ 75,000), and were completed in 1892. Inaugurated in March 1893, the new city hall originally housed 860 m (9,200 ft ), and was only a little more spacious than the earlier offices. This problem was ultimately resolved by the 1911 acquisition of an adjacent residential lot, which allowed
68-559: A BRT station in Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Palacio Municipal . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Palacio_Municipal&oldid=1180800946 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
85-529: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Palacio Municipal de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires City Hall ( Spanish : Palacio Municipal de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires ; lit. "Municipal Palace") was, until 2015, the seat of the Office of the Chief of Government of Buenos Aires , the capital city of Argentina . From its construction in 1914 to
102-725: The Panic of 1890 was an acute recession . Although less serious than other panics of the era, it is the nineteenth century’s most famous sovereign debt crisis , and the 17th largest decline in U.S. stock market history. The crisis was precipitated by the near insolvency of Barings Bank in London. Barings, led by Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke , faced bankruptcy in November 1890 due mainly to excessive risk-taking on poor investments in Argentina. Argentina itself suffered severely in
119-459: The Port of Buenos Aires and other faculties to the national government . The controversial bill, signed in 1996 by President Menem, remained a sticking point between successive Presidents (most of whom have been Peronist ) and Buenos Aires Mayors (none of whom have been). A 2005 agreement on principles between Mayor Aníbal Ibarra and President Néstor Kirchner was followed by the modification of
136-400: The city government. The 1880 Federalization of Buenos Aires was followed by a boom in foreign trade and European immigration , and in 1890, Mayor Francisco P. Bollini commissioned the construction of a new city hall. The building would replace what had been the city government's offices since 1860 - the second floor of police headquarters; the city had grown dramatically since then, and
153-544: The city's governing structure in 1993, when former President Raúl Alfonsín prevailed on his successor, President Carlos Menem , to agree to a limited devolution of governing powers to the city (the Olivos Pact ). Accordingly, the 1994 reform of the Argentine Constitution included article 129, which guaranteed Buenos Aires greater self-governance. The Indentente ( appointed Mayor ) was replaced by
170-521: The decision to build on the site of the outmoded police headquarters. Decorative tilework and chandeliers from the adjacent Zuberbühler house, which had recently been expropriated to make way for the Avenida de Mayo , were likewise salvaged for use in the upcoming city hall (where they remain to the present day). The cornerstone laying ceremony was held on New Year's Eve 1890, for which the Mayor contributed
187-656: The entire private banking system of London would have collapsed which would have caused an economic catastrophe. The international financial distrust generated by this crisis burst the bubble in the Brazilian economy, which had been inflating since the previous decade, bringing forward its expected end and seeing a Brazilian financial crisis , which in turn along with Argentine and Uruguayan crises slashed repatriations and short-term investment by European immigrants from Latin America to their countries of origin, affecting
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#1732765443425204-417: The especially contentious article 7, which denied the city its own, local police force, in 2007 - though the "Cafiero Law" otherwise remains in force. Efforts since 2007 by Mayor Mauricio Macri to declare it unconstitutional have thus far failed, and though the Mayor inaugurated a Metropolitan Police, issues of revenue sharing for its financing remain pending. Panic of 1890 The Baring crisis or
221-405: The expansion of the city hall to nearly double. Designed in the same Second Empire style with which Cagnoni designed the first part, the engineering firm of Bonneu Ibero, Parodi & Figini completed the annex in 1914. A connection to the adjacent House of Culture was opened following the latter's acquisition by the city in 1988. The 1880 Federalization of Buenos Aires, enacted in a bid to end
238-570: The internecine warfare between those who favored a united Argentina with a strong central government ( Unitarios ) and Buenos Aires Province leaders who favored an independent nation of their own ( Federales ), resulted in President Julio Roca 's passage in 1882 of National Law 1260, which created the presidential prerogative of the appointment of the Mayor of Buenos Aires (though with a locally elected city council). This remained
255-450: The recession of 1890 with its real GDP falling by 11 percent between 1890 and 1891. An international consortium assembled by William Lidderdale , governor of the Bank of England , including Rothschilds and most of the other major London banks, created a fund to guarantee Barings' debts, thereby averting a larger depression. Nathan Rothschild remarked that if this had not happened, perhaps
272-632: The reformation of the city's constitution in 1996, the building was the seat of the City Municipality. It faces the Plaza de Mayo , across from the Casa Rosada presidential palace, in the barrio of Monserrat . Since 2015, the Office of the Chief of Government has been located at a new building in the barrio of Parque Patricios . The City Hall still houses various government offices of
289-480: The space had become inadequate. Bollini's announced project had been immediately preceded by the Panic of 1890 , however, and the effect of this crisis on the city's leading source of tax revenue British investment , led to plans of a relatively modest scale. Among the cost-saving measures was the city's enlistment of the Assistant Minister of Public Works, Juan Cagnoni , as chief architect, as well as
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