The city features many squares, street gardens, and monuments. Urban construction is divided into two parts: the old city and the new city. The old town is centered around plaza de Mayo. The original streets intersect at right angles to form a grid-like block. From 1826 onwards, the fourth street centered on Plaza de Mayo was widened. To the north of Plaza de Mayo is a bustling business district.
In the new town outside the central district, the streets no longer maintain a layout where they intersect at right angles. The North District is a multi-French luxury complex; the West and South Districts are densely populated; the Southeast is a major industrial area; and the Río de la Plata is a recreation area. Palermo Park covers an area of 1,300 hectares and contains excellently equipped racecourses and world-famous running tracks.
Located in the heart of Downtown Buenos Aires, the Columbus Theater is a high-level theater dedicated to opera, ballet and symphony, and one of the most famous theaters in the world. The great musicians Tuscanini, Rubinstein, Menuhin, Kempf, the famous singers Pavarotti, Domingo, Sutherin, and many excellent orchestras and ballet companies have performed at the Columbus Theater. The theater has also produced world-renowned dancers such as Marigliana Belfore and Julio Boca.
Piazza San Martin is located in the Retiro district, formerly known as Piazza del Marte, where General Saint-Martin trained cavalry during the Revolutionary War. On February 25, 1878, the Argentine people named the square Plaza San Martin on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of General San Martin.
The square is irregularly shaped and covers an area of 24,600 square meters, making it one of the oldest squares in Buenos Aires. In the middle of the square stands a statue of José Saint-Martin the Liberator, carved in 1862 by the French sculptor Louis Joseph Dom. According to Argentine practice, after a foreign head of state visits or an ambassador presents his credentials, a wreath is placed at the Monument of Saint-Martin.
The Obelisk was designed in 1936 by architect Alberto Prebisch to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of Buenos Aires. Due to initial opposition to the project, it was almost completely demolished in 1939. In 2014, it has become an irreplaceable landmark building in Cloth City. The monument is 67.5 meters high.
The 9th of July Avenue, which runs through the city from north to south, is about 140 meters wide and is said to be the widest road in the world, named in honor of Argentina's declaration of independence on July 9, 1816. Located at the western end of The Capitol Square, the Argentine Parliament Building is the legislature of Argentina, with a 4-storey main building decorated with white marble walls and carved Greek columns surrounding the entire building.
In the middle of the building, a dome tower rises, and halfway up the tower, a bronze four-horse-drawn carriage is flying in the air, and the highest point is a bronze dome with a diameter of 20 meters. Designed by Italians and Belgians, it has a strong European classical architectural style. The Houses of Parliament were built in 1898, initially inaugurated and inaugurated in 1906, and completed in 1946. It covers an area of 9,000 square meters and the dome is 80 meters high.
Located directly in front of the Capitol, Plaza de congres is one of the three most famous squares in Argentina. The square is flanked by Irigoyan Avenue and Rivadavia Street (the longest street in the world), separated by the Capitol. The main body of the monument is a sculpture symbolizing the Argentine Republic
A woman holding a bouquet of olive branches is preceded by a young man driving a herd of horses, which stand at a water's edge that symbolizes the La Plata River and its tributaries, the Paraná and Uruguay rivers. In front of the monument is a set of musical light fountains, which are unforgettable. In the middle of the square is a monolithic monument, symbolizing the starting point of the national highway. In addition, there are also famous places such as replicas of "thinker" sculptures on the square.
Boca district is the first port of the city of Buenos Aires, and in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a large number of European immigrants settled here, mainly Italian Genoese. Famous for its tango, brothels and cafes, this area is one of the birthplaces of tango in the city of Buenos Aires. Here, from food tastes to architectural styles, there is a Mediterranean flair.
Tango Street is one of the most iconic streets in boca district. At the suggestion of the Argentine painter Gínquera Martin, the buildings on both sides of the street were painted in locally representative colors and named "small roads". The walls on both sides of the street are many reliefs by Argentine entertainers. In 1959, the government turned the street into a "pedestrian street museum."
Built in 1580 by Juan de Galli, acting Governor of Asunción, Plaza de Mayo was the earliest central area of the city of Buenos Aires and from 1810 became the venue for all major political events of the state. Plaza de Mayo is regarded by Argentines as the nerve center of the republic. Its predecessor was "Grand Plaza" or "Victory Square"
Born at the same time as the city of Buenos Aires, it has a history of more than 400 years and is the political center of Argentina. Plaza de Mayo is not only a historical witness to the development of the city of Buenos Aires, but also a memorial to the independence of the Argentine Republic and a symbol of Argentina. In the center of the square stands a 13-meter-high pyramid-pointed monument built to commemorate the patriots who died in the May Revolution of 1810.
Located in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, the Palazzo Rosso is home to the Argentine power center. The Palazzo ross is a standard nineteenth-century Italian style building. The entire building is three stories high, but the east building plus the basement floor is four stories.
Notable person: Diego Armando Maradona (born 30 October 1960 in Buenos Aires) is a former Argentine footballer. Olivia Hirsy, born in Buenos Aires in 1951, is an actress. He became famous for playing Juliet in the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet, when he was only seventeen years old.
Guerremo Stäbier (born 17 January 1905 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine legendary striker who is the first top scorer in World Cup history and the first to score a hat-trick. Irina Werning, a female photographer in Buenos Aires, created the famous "Back to the Future" series of photographs in 2010.
Jorge Luis Borges (born 24 August 1899 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine poet, novelist, essayist and translator who served as clerk and director of public libraries in the city of Buenos Aires and was a bourgeois democrat. He has been hailed as "the greatest literary giant in the world today, and an unparalleled master of creation." "A literary master who is recognized in the literary world as a very famous literary master, even if he does not win the Nobel Prize.
In November 2018, the World City Rankings were released and Buenos Aires was named an Alpha City. In January 2019, Buenos Aires was selected into the "2018 WFBA Top 200 World Characteristic Charm Cities" list.