Plaza General San Martin

We will tell you about the founding of the city of Buenos Aires and the history of Plaza San Martín. Place where the liberator of America trained his grenadiers to cross the Andes. We will tell you about the various events around the square

Plaza General San Martin

The growth of the city would begin towards the south of Buenos Aires and, due to various circumstances of diseases, it would continue its growth towards the sector of Barrio Norte, Retiro and Recoleta. The place chosen by the Buenos Aires aristocracy at the beginning of the 20th century would be the Plaza San Martín sector, around the general's monument where the various residential palaces that we will visit outside were built. Argentina at the end of the 19th century inserted itself into the world as an agro-export economy. For this, a great infrastructure transformation will be carried out that will look to Europe as a great reference to follow. We will tell you how the Argentine society of that time copied from the uses and customs, the architecture and infrastructures of the European models.