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66 unusual facts about Buenos Aires


Alfredo Zecca

Zecca received his episcopal consecration on the following August 11 from Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio, the later pope Francis, then archbishop of Buenos Aires.

Andrea Frigerio

Andrea Luisa Mitchelstein, better known as Andrea Frigerio (born August 8, 1961 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine actress, television presenter and former model.

Andrés Calamaro

In 2005 he released El Regreso (The Return), a compilation of the live recordings from his appearance in the Luna Park Stadium earlier that year.

Antonio García Vega

Collective exhibitions have included participation in the Cuarta bienal Museo de Arte Contemporáneo at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Morelia, Mexico (2003), the Arte Lúdico event at the Alicia Brandy Gallery of Art in Buenos Aires (2005), participation in the Salón de Pintura y Escultura at the Centro Cultural Fox y Museo de Arte de León in León Guanajuato (2005), the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana en Paris event in France(2007) and Aus der Tief (2010) .

Argentine Declaration of Independence

The congress continued its work in Buenos Aires in 1817, but it dissolved in 1820 after the Battle of Cepeda, which deepened the differences between the Unitarian Party, who favored a strong central government, and the Federales, who favored a weak central government.

Ariel Seltzer

Ariel Gerardo Seltzer (born: 3 January 1981 in Ituzaingó, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine football defender who currently plays for Juventud Unida Universitario in the Primera B Nacional.

Augusto Vargas Alzamora

He studied at the Jesuit Philosophical Faculty in San Miguel, Argentina and Madrid.

Avenida Coronel Díaz

Coronel Díaz Avenue is an avenue that marks the limit between the Palermo and Recoleta neighborhoods in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and extends northbound, parallel Pueyrredón Avenue.

Avenida Roque Sáenz Peña

Avenida Roque Sáenz Peña (also known as Diagonal Norte), is a main artery in the San Nicolás quarter of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Avenida Santa Fe

It continues westward along the Retiro area, passing by the Brunetta ("Olivetti") Building (built in 1964, one the first in Buenos Aires designed in the International Style) and through the massive Avenida 9 de Julio, which was opened through the Retiro area in the early 1970s.

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The Greek Revivalist Argentine Scientific Society and the Art Deco Regina Theatre follow and, past Avenida Callao, Santa Fe Avenue enters its Recoleta stretch.

Bernard Sauer

Born into a family of six in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sauer studied acting there before making his theatrical debut in the 1945 play, "Yoshke, the Musician" directed by Joseph Buloff.

Binglin Stable

They frequently played in Argentina, the polo capital of the world, and as such the brothers and Crosby decided to establish "Caballeriza Binglin Stock Farm" near Buenos Aires where they purchased a number of locally bred horses and shipped them back to the United States.

Blake Mycoskie

While vacationing in Argentina in 2006, Blake spent a day volunteering with a local non-profit organization delivering used shoes to children in the villages outside of Buenos Aires.

Buenos Aires-class destroyer

The Buenos Aires class destroyers were a group of destroyers built for the Argentine Navy in Britain in the 1930s.

Buenos Aires, Trujillo

This locality is subdivided into three zones: Buenos Aires South, extending to the border with the Moche district, Buenos Aires Central limiting with Vista Alegre by east and the sector called Buenos Aires North extending up to the limit with Huanchaco.

Carmen Lamas

Carmen Lamas (Spain, 1900 - Buenos Aires, 1990) was a Spanish-born tango singer, and the first Spanish actress who made ​​her career in Argentina.

Chuck Merriman

In 1995 Merriman was appointed Head Coach for the United States National Karate Team for the Olympic Sanctioned XII Pan American Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Club Atlético Ferrocarril General San Martín

Club Atlético Ferrocarril General San Martín, or simply San Martín, is an Argentine sports club based in the Sáenz Peña neighborhood, Greater Buenos Aires.

Colegio Nacional de San Isidro

It is located at 165 Acassuso (the address in Spanish would show the street number last), in San Isidro City, Buenos Aires Province, near the San Isidro Cathedral.

Costas Evangelatos

He has participated in many group exhibitions and international artistic meetings in Barcelona, Warsaw, Seratz, Gothenburg, Amiens, Rome, Moscow, Santiago, Buenos Aires, New York, Los Angeles, etc.

Defensores de Belgrano

The stadium was at the Plaza Alberti in the suburb of Belgrano, Buenos Aires.

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Club Atlético Defensores de Belgrano (usually known as "Defensores de Belgrano") is an Argentine sports club from Núñez, Buenos Aires.

Delia Parodi

The experience earned her a promotion as a local ombudsman in the Las Cañitas section of Palermo (today an upscale ward in Buenos Aires).

Emilie Schindler

Schindler lived with her pets for many years in her small house in San Vicente, 40 kilometres south-west of Buenos Aires.

Ernesto Duchini

Duchini was born in the Barrio Norte district of Buenos Aires on November 10, 1910, at a young age his family moved to Chacarita where he joined the youth team of Chacarita Juniors in 1922.

Excursionistas

Club Atlético Excursionistas (familiarly called Excursio by fans) is an Argentine football club based in the Belgrano district of Buenos Aires.

Federico Alonso

Federico Alonso Tellechea (born August 15, 1981 in Buenos Aires) is a Spanish sailor.

Ferrocarril General Roca

In the metropolitan sector of the City of Buenos Aires the Línea Roca operates from the city-centre terminus of Estación Constitución south to Alejandro Korn, Cañuelas, and La Plata, and west to Haedo.

Ferrocarril General San Martín

In the metropolitan sector of the City of Buenos Aires there is a diesel commuter branch that operates from the Retiro railway terminus in the city-centre northwest to Palomar, Hurlingham and Pilar.

FMA I.Ae. 27 Pulqui I

The restored prototype is currently displayed at the Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica de Argentina of the Argentine Air Force ("Fuerza Aérea Argentina"), initially at Buenos Aires Aeroparque Airport and later at Morón, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Fraulein Spy

Posing as an investigative journalist for a West German tabloid newspaper, Carter tracks Judas to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he is living among the expatriate German community under the alias Hugo Bronson.

Guillermo Leaden

On May 28, 1975 he was appointed Titular Bishop of Theudalis and Auxiliary Bishop of the Buenos Aires and was ordained August 8, 1975.

Hesperidina

This alcoholic drink was invented in 1864 by an American immigrant Melville Sewell Bagley in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Islam in Argentina

The project cost around US$30 million, and includes a mosque, library, two schools, a park, is located in the middle-class district of Palermo, Buenos Aires.

Jesus Cuellar

Jesús Marcelo Andrés Cuellar (born December 28, 1986 in José C. Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a Argentine professional boxer and the current interim WBA Featherweight Champion.

John Frederick Bateman

He carried out projects abroad as well, including designing and constructing a drainage and water supply system for Buenos Aires, and water supply schemes for Naples, Constantinople and Colombo.

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In winter 1870 he visited Buenos Aires, at the request of the Argentine government, for the purpose of laying out harbour works for that city.

Jorge Giannoni

Shortly thereafter the University of Buenos Aires was pressured by the government of Isabel Perón to close the Institute, and he had to leave the country for Peru, and then Cuba, where he resided until his return to Argentina in 1983.

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In Buenos Aires, he created the Instituto de Cine del Tercer Mundo (Third World Film Institute), which was then merged with Raymundo Gleyzer’s Cine de la Base (Cinema of the People).

Jorge Muscia

Jorge Muscia (Buenos Aires, March 6, 1958) is a plastic artist and ‘fileteado’ instructor with over 30 years of experience in his field.

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He has received several awards, including a Scholarship of the Fundacion Antorchas for Artistic Creativity (1992) for his Project Tótems Porteños (Resignificación del Obelisco de Buenos Aires).

Juan Carlos Maccarone

Juan Carlos Maccarone (born 19 October 1940 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine Roman Catholic retired bishop.

Juan Nepomuceno Terrero y Escalada

He served as auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires from 1898 till 1900, when he became bishop of La Plata.

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On April 21, 1898, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and titular bishop of Dercos.

Lola Berthet

Berthet began acting at a young age, in her hometown of Buenos Aires, eventually becoming a well known telenovela actress in her home country as an adult.

Luca Prodan

After some time at the farm in the Traslasierra valley, he settled in Hurlingham (a suburb of Buenos Aires), where he founded and led Sumo and the Hurlingham Reggae Band.

Magda Frank

Her works are part of the collections at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Paris, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires.

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In 1950, she arrived in Buenos Aires to visit her brother, her only living family member.

Manuel Tato

On November 12, 1948, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and titular bishop of Aulon.

Maurice Seynaeve

Maurice Seynaeve (Heule (near Kortrijk) Belgium, 31 January 1907 - Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires Argentina, 28 November 1998) was a Belgian Cyclo-cross rider in the years 1928-1940.

Mercedes Marcó del Pont

Mercedes Marcó del Pont was born and raised in the northside of Buenos Aires.

Nelda Ramos

Nelda Ramos (born October 4, 1977 - Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a multidisciplinary artist with a vast experience, being one of the better considered South American young artists, with a major tour in Visual Arts and especially in Performance art.

Oscar Cortínez

Hernán Oscar Cortínez (born August 4, 1973 in Morón) is a male marathon runner from Argentina, who is a two-time winner of the Buenos Aires Marathon in his native country (2003 and 2004).

Puente Alsina railway station

As part of the privatization of the Argentine railways in 1990’s the private company Metropolitano was granted a concession to operate the service, part of the Linea Belgrano Sur, as far as General Belgrano, from 1 May 1994.

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Puente Alsina railway station, (Estación Puente Alsina in Spanish) is an Argentine railway station in the Greater Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Valentín Alsina in the Lanús partido of Buenos Aires Province.

Sakiho Juri

Also, she could be in tough role like Ricardo in The Wind of Buenos Aires and a small time crook like Duchain in Crossroad.

San Cayetano

San Cayetano, Buenos Aires capital of San Cayetano Partido, Buenos Aires Province

Santiago Dabove

He was born in Morón, Buenos Aires where he resided his entire life and mostly lived in solitude.

Stuart Franklin

He worked on about twenty stories for National Geographic between 1991 and 2009, subjects including Inca conqueror Francisco Pizarro and the hydro-struggle in Quebec and places such as Buenos Aires and Malaysia.

Tamir Bloom

In May 2000, he won the Western Hemisphere Zonal qualification tournament in Buenos Aires, making the team in his final attempt to qualify for the Olympics.

Tomás Juan Carlos Solari

He served as auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires from 1943 till 1948, when he became archbishop of La Plata.

Toño Salazar

During World War II he went to Buenos Aires where he was employed as an illustrator and caricaturist at the socialist weekly magazine Argentina Libre.

Vicente Barbieri

Vicente Barbieri (August 31, 1903 – September 10, 1956) was an Argentine poet born in Alberti.

Voseo

This was the situation when Castilian was brought to the Río de la Plata area (around Buenos Aires and Montevideo) and to Chile.

Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout

It was organized in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, while the end-game bits were shot with anchor Shah Rukh Khan at the Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai.


2010 Fórmula Truck season

Other victories were taken by Giaffone's team-mate Valmir Benavides, who triumphed at Caruaru, Geraldo Piquet won the series' only race outside of Brazil in Buenos Aires, while Iveco took a solitary victory with Beto Monteiro winning at Velopark.

Alberto Morán

Alberto Morán (born Remo Andrea Domenico Recagno, Strevi, Alessandria, Italy, 15 March 1922 - Buenos Aires, 16 August 1997) was an Argentine tango musician.

Alstom Metropolis

The trains are in service in 22 major cities around the world, representing more than 3000 cars, including Singapore, Shanghai, Budapest, Warsaw, Nanjing, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Lima, Santiago de Chile, Barcelona, Istanbul and Santo Domingo.

Bolivian War of Independence

On November 11, the representative of the Junta of Seville, José Manuel de Goyeneche, arrived in Chuquisaca, after stopping in Buenos Aires, with instructions to secure Upper Peru's recognition of authority of the Seville Junta.

Buenos Aires–Rosario–Córdoba high-speed railway

Today, the service is disrupted by serious deficiencies and delays and takes over seven hours, more than the service provided in the '50s by "El Marplatense" with speeds of up to 90 + mph (150 km/h) making the run in 3 hrs 45 min in then cutting edge Budd-built formations.

Cestoball

Cestoball is a sport created in Argentina, during the conference in Buenos Aires and Santa Rosa in 1986, with the purpose of making the old Argentine sport called 'pelota al cesto' (ball to basket) more dynamic and homogenising its rules with korfball and netball.

Cobblestone

Many cities in Latin America, such as Buenos Aires, Argentina; Zacatecas and Guanajuato, in Mexico; Old San Juan, Puerto Rico and Montevideo, Uruguay, richly influenced by many European architectural features, are well known for their many cobblestone streets, which are still operational and in good condition.

Colegio Nacional de San Isidro

The Colegio Nacional de San Isidro (CNSI) is a public institution of secondary education located in San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Conchita Supervía

She made her stage debut in 1910 at the young age of 15 at the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Argentina in Stiattesi's Blanca de Beaulieu.

Cristian Ivanobski

Cristian Ivanobski (born February 11, 1990 in Tigre (Buenos Aires), Argentina) is an Argentine footballer currently playing for Santiago Morning of the Primera B Chilena.

Darwin's Rhea

The specific name was bestowed in 1834 by Darwin's contemporary and rival Alcide d'Orbigny who first described the bird to Europeans, from a specimen from the lower Río Negro south of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

El gran teatro

The whole action of the novel takes place during a performance of Wagner's Parsifal at Buenos Aires' famous opera house, the Teatro Colón.

El Nuevo Gasómetro

The Estadio Pedro Bidegain, nicknamed el Nuevo Gasómetro (the New Gasometer), is the home stadium of San Lorenzo football club in the Flores neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Ethnography of Argentina

Buenos Aires itself is said to have over 100,000 practicing Jews, making it one of the largest Jewish urban centers in the world (see also History of the Jews in Argentina).

Ezequiel Jurado

He had 28 caps for Argentina, scoring 6 tries, 30 points on aggregate, from the 53-7 loss to Australia, at 30 April 1995, in Brisbane, in a friendly game, to the 26-36 loss to Wales, at 5 June 1999, in Buenos Aires, in another friendly game.

Francisco Urondo

Finally Paco stopped the car...and said, "I took the pill (cyanide) and I already feel sick." Ahualli remembers that Lucía said, "But papi, why did you do that?" Ahualli escaped between the bullets and arrived wounded to Buenos Aires, days later.

Gabriel Casaccia

In his youth, he was politically active for a short period when he moved to Argentina, living first in Posadas, then in Buenos Aires.

Gonzalo Sebastián García

Gonzalo Sebastián García (born 6 February 1987 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine football defender currently playing for Club Olimpo in the Primera B Nacional.

Grupo Clarín

Grupo Clarín was listed in the Buenos Aires and London Stock Exchanges in 2007, upon which a 20% share in the group was made available to stockholders (leaving 9% for Goldman Sachs, and 71% for its private shareholders).

Hohan Sōken

He also taught karate to Japanese and Okinawan ex-pats in Buenos Aires.

Horacio Agulla

Horacio Agulla attended St. Felipe The Apostle School in Don Torcuato, a suburb in The Province of Buenos Aires).

Hybrid Tango

Hybrid Tango is a side project by the members of Buenos Aires-based electronic neo-tango band Tanghetto.

Javier Saviola

Nicknamed El Conejo (The Rabbit), Buenos Aires-born Saviola made his debut for Club Atlético River Plate at the age of 16, and went on to be a prolific goalscorer for the club.

John Esplen

He then became a partner in his father's firm and helped to establish branches in London, Cardiff, Buenos Aires, New York City and Montevideo.

Karen J. Warren

She has spoken widely on environmental issues, feminism, critical thinking skills and peace studies in many international locations including Buenos Aires, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Oslo, Manitoba, Melbourne, Moscow, Perth, the U.N. Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro (1992), and San Jose.

La Violencia

These included the director of Crítica magazine Jorge Zalamea fleeing to Buenos Aires, Luis Vidales to Chile, Antonio Garcia to La Paz, and Gerardo Molina to Paris.

Leonardo Sandri

Sandri was born in Buenos Aires to Antonio Enrico Sandri and Nella Righi, who had emigrated to Argentina from Ala, a village in Trentino in Italy.

Luis Alberto Fernández Alara

On Januari 24, 2009, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and titular bishop of Carpi.

Marcelino Nicolas Lopez

Marcelino Nicolas Lopez (born May 6, 1986 in Arribenos, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a boxer in the Lightweight division.

Marcelo Bonevardi

Bonevardi's work has been collected by many leading North American and Latin American museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City; the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires; the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade in São Paulo; and the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City.

María Eugenia Vidal

Affiliated with the Republican Proposal party, she was appointed Minister of Social Development of the City of Buenos Aires, and in 2011 was elected Deputy Mayor.

Mario José Serra

He served as auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires from 1975 till 2002.

Mauricio Solaún

Solaún has been a visiting professor at the Universidad de los Andes and the Universidad Pontificia Javeriana in Bogotá, the Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires, and the Universidad Católica de Valparaíso in Chile.

Mildred Barnes Bliss

Because of his diplomatic postings, they lived in Brussels (1908–1909), Buenos Aires (1909–1912), Paris (1912–1919), Washington, D.C. (1919–1923), Stockholm (1923–1927), and Buenos Aires again (1927–1933) before returning, in retirement, to Washington, D.C. (1933).

Miro Gavran

There have been first nights of his plays throughout the world, in: Rotterdam, Washington, D.C., Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Buenos Aires, Waterford, Mumbai, Bratislava, Prague, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Krakow, Belgrade, Budapest, Athens, Augsburg, Vienna and Sofia.

Nicolás Urquiza

Since 2007 he has teamed with other designers to lead several renovation projects, mainly in private residences of the Northeastern United States and Buenos Aires historic district.

Oswald Menghin

1948 was the year in which he went over to Argentina, where he became University Professor in Buenos Aires, and from 1957 also at the University of La Plata.

Pasaje Del Terror

Pasaje Del Terror is an interactive walk-through horror attraction with branches in thirty different cities in Spain, including Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Seville, Malaga, Salou, Santander, etc. as well as some of the major cities of the world, such as Rome, Lisbon, Blackpool, Buenos Aires, Bariloche, Cancun, San Salvador and Tokyo.

Pedro Melo de Portugal

Pedro de Melo de Portugal y Vilhena (29 April 1733 in Badajoz – 15 April 1797 in Buenos Aires) was a Spanish soldier and politician, who served as viceroy in the Rio de la Plata.

Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola

D'Oriola, riding Pomone B, was the gold medal World Champion in show jumping at Buenos Aires in 1966.

Pluricentric language

In Argentina and Uruguay the Spanish standard is based on the local dialects of Buenos Aires and Montevideo.

Raúl Uranga – Carlos Sylvestre Begnis Subfluvial Tunnel

Until the opening of the Rosario-Victoria Bridge, this was the only road link between two commercially important and populous regions of Argentina, and the only one between the two provinces (more to the south, Entre Ríos is connected to the province of Buenos Aires by the Zárate-Brazo Largo Bridge).

Roman Haubenstock-Ramati

In addition he gave guest lectures and composition seminars in Tel Aviv, Stockholm, Darmstadt, Bilthoven (the Netherlands) and Buenos Aires, and from 1973 held a professorship at the Musikhochschule in Vienna.

Taksim Square massacre

This mode of operation recalls the June 20, 1973 Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, when the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (aka Triple A), founded by José López Rega (a P2 member), opened up fire on the left-wing Peronists.

Tangophobia Vol. 1

It contains tracks from different neo-tango and electronic artists from Buenos Aires, including NeoShaft, B.A. Jam, Hybrid Tango and Tanghetto.

Trident Music

Trident Music is an independent record label based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Victor Zâmbrea

His works are found in private and public collections in Paris, Bucharest, Moscow, Kiev, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Riga, Vilnius, Timişoara, Braşov, Odessa, Nikolaev, Tumen, Novokuznetsk, Esentuki, Sighetu Marmaţiei.