Buenos Aires City –as every metropolis- has thousands of monuments and statues. But some of them are more significant than other because of their beauty, their history or their special patrimonial value. Among that myriad of works, Hostel Colonial selects a couple for you to know which are the most interesting and those you should visit or photograph to capture the essence of our city.
Altogether, it’s calculated that Buenos Aires has around 2200 statues and monuments. Undoubtedly, the “Obelisco” (year 1936, in the corner of 9 de Julio and Corrientes Avenue) is the most representative one. Followed by the “Pirámide de Mayo” (May Pyramid, 1811), locates in the Plaza de Mayo commemorating the liberating revolution of 1810. It is also the first monument of Argentina.
The first Argentine made statue is the one that tributes a black man called Falucho, he was a liberated slave who fought in the independence war (it’s located in a square in Palermo neighborhood). The most represented figure in Argentine statues is that of General José de San Martín, our liberator. Although some foreign heroes can also be seen in our streets: George Washington (in Tres de Febrero Park) and Giuseppe Garibaldi (in Plaza Italia).
One of the most repeated images after San Martín is that of “The Mother”, a sculpture classic. According to experts, a large part of Buenos Aires statues are made by foreign artists (something you can expect in a cosmopolitan country). A curiosity: many monuments and sculptures but few fountains in our city, just 70.
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