Berny's photos

more about this place at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Plaza scanned slide, Minolta X700 This is the last image of Buenos Aires, our first stop in Argentina. The next stage was a flight to Salta in the Northwest, where the actual trip began.

Cementerio de la Recoleta is a cemetery in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It contains the graves of notable people, including Eva Perón, presidents of Argentina, Nobel Prize winners, the founder of the Argentine Navy, and a granddaughter of Napoleon. In 2011, the BBC hailed it as one of the world's "best" cemeteries, and in 2013, CNN listed it among the 10 most beautiful cemeteries in the world. - see PiP's, scanned slide, Minolta X700

Shipwrecks in the Rio Matanza-Riachuelo, Vuelta de Rocha, Buenos Aires. scanned slide, Minolta X700

The ship is "Nicolas Mihanovich", constructed 1962 (now in the meantime "Vapor de la Carrera"), a boat for crossing the Rio de la Plata. The lifting bridge in the background is the "Puente Nicolas Avellaneda". - scanned slide, Minolta X700

The Kavanagh Building (Spanish: Edificio Kavanagh) to the right is a famed Art Déco skyscraper in Retiro, Buenos Aires. Designed in 1934 by architects Gregorio Sánchez, Ernesto Lagos and Luis María de la Torre, it is considered a pinnacle of modernist architecture. At the time of its inauguration in 1936, the Kavanagh was the tallest building in Latin America, as well as the tallest building in the world with a reinforced concrete structure. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

The Monumento ecuestre a Carlos María de Alvear located on Plaza Julio de Caro, a landmark in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires and was raised in honor of Carlos María de Alvear (1788-1852). It is a work by French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle. It is considered by the author as his masterpiece in the great monuments. In 1912, Rodolfo Alcorta, a friend of Bourdelle, invited the sculptor to participate in a concours for the realization of this monument. He received the commission in 1913. The author took nearly ten years to complete the sculpture. Once finished the monument was shipped to Buenos Aires from France in 1925. The sculpture and the pedestal of polished pink granite adorned with additional bronzes by the artist, stands in its current location since 12 October 1926. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

The Teatro Colón (Spanish: Columbus Theatre) is the main opera house in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is considered one of the ten best opera houses in the world by National Geographic, and is acoustically considered to be amongst the five best concert venues in the world. The present theatre opened on 25 May 1908, with Giuseppe Verdi's Aïda.

Buenos Aires - scanned slide, Minolta X700

Argentina and Austria in Buenos Aires - scanned slide, Minolta X700

Sunday market at Plaza Dorrego - Buenos Aires scanned slide, Minolta X700

The Libertador Building (Edificio Libertador) is a government building, housing the Ministry of Defense. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

ARA Presidente Sarmiento is a museum ship in Argentina, originally built as a training ship for the Argentine Navy and named after Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, the seventh President of Argentina. She is considered to be the last intact cruising training ship from the 1890s. - scanned slide, Minolta X700