miércoles, 14 de noviembre de 2012
CONCLUSION
Thanks to this trip, we got to know many beautiful places. One of the best thing was that we were able to know a little more about our class mates. We became closer. With our group we shared many beautiful things that will always be memorable for us. We enjoyed this last trip with our school, "Hermano Hermas De Bruijn". We want to thank the teachers for joining us in order to enjoy this trip. Also for taking good care of us at all times.
THE COME BACK
On the last day we were not able to do many things because it rained and also two of our colleagues were sick so they stayed on the bus waiting for the return of the entire group. We went to have lunch at a Catamaran, a ship in "Tigre", and then we went to visit the house of Sarmiento.
As it was raining, we couldn't go, unfortunately, to "Costa Park, which is a theme park. As there wasn't many things to do at that time, we proposed going back to Santiago. With the agreement of the teachers and the people who were in charge of the trip, we took the way back home. We stopped in the middle of the trip to dinner in Santa Fe in a fuel station. My friends wanted to watch a football match so we stayed until the end of it. When it finished we got on rode to Santiago again.
We arrived at 8 am. We found ourselves with our families and say goodbye to teachers and coordinators for the trip we enjoy together.
martes, 6 de noviembre de 2012
FIFTH DAY
Puerto Madero
Riverfront, Puerto Madero appears as the newest neighborhood, with a wide range of attractions, restaurants, bars and shops. Puerto Madero area, emerged in the late nineteenth century as an alternative to overcome the old pto created in colonial times. In the first decades of the twentieth century, however, the PTO was also replaced, and remained inactive until the works were undertaken aimed at renewal. During the 1990s, the conversion of the area gave the Puerto Madero neighborhood of its present. With over forty food places, several hotels, a cinema complex, a church headquarters Arg Catholic University (UCA) and a huge amount of offices and housing, is currently a magnet for those seeking enjoy a new neighborhood that combines the old with the new, combining the history of their dams and old buildings with the latest trends in technology and comfort of its facilities. Puerto Madero is a neighborhood synonymous with restaurants, entertainment and informationIn a few days the makeshift terminal mudarán eight bus lines that currently runs on the square of the Tango, compared to Luna Park, a venue located at the corner of Avenida Madero and Cecilia Grierson, where begins the Puerto Madero neighborhood, a zone with almost constant traffic jams. This provision, being conducted by the national government with the approval of the city, answered the remodeling is being done at the Central Post Office building (under the Ministry of Planning of the Nation) and in the surrounding area. The completion of these works was planned for the Bicentennial, but would demand another two years.El Porteño Building has a long central volume with smaller vessels and lower diagonal pointing toward the docks and a tower that stands at the side facing the river. The brick building was constructed in English and for recycling completely changed the interior, allowing seven levels now present instead of the five that had originally. The impeller and alma mater of the ambitious project is Alan Faena, founder of the successful clothing brand Via Vai. After several years of success with his clothing company, Slaughter came off of it and launched into project planning and most important real estate of late billionaire. Was attended by the prominent French architect Philippe Starck, and with the support of several major investors from around the world: the businessman Austin Hearst newspaper, the brothers Christopher and Robert Burch (owners of the North American investment fund and former Red Badge owners clothing brand Eagle's Eyes) and Russian Len Blavatnik, the oil Acces Industries. Faena building project began three years ago and thanks to these foreign investments managed successfully through the most critical moments of the crisis.In the area of Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires, Argentina can get information about restaurants, bars and shops. It is also an online guide to tourism and real estate, where you will find information on businesses, properties, hotels, events and places of interest
women Bridge
Puente de la Mujer is a rotating footbridge for Dock 3 of the Puerto Madero commercial district of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is of the Cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge type and is also a swing bridge, but somewhat unusual in its asymmetrical arrangement. It has a single mast with cables suspending a portion of the bridge which rotates 90 degrees in order to allow water traffic to pass. When it swings to allow watercraft passage, the far end comes to a resting point on a stabilizing pylon.
Designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava on a plan very similar to a 250-metre bridge over the Guadalquivir River in Seville, Spain (1992) and a 213-metre bridge over the Sacramento River in Redding, California (2004), it has a forward-, rather than a reverse-angled cantilever, as is seen in those bridges. Started in 1998, it was inaugurated on December 20, 2001, and is the only one of Calatrava's works in Latin America. The architect has described the design as a synthesis of the image of a couple dancing the tango.
The 170-metre pedestrian bridge weighs 8 tonnes, is 6.20 m wide and is divided into two fixed portions, 25 m and 32.50 m long respectively, and a middle section of 102.5 m that rotates on a white concrete pylon, allowing vessels to pass in less than two minutes. This central section is supported by a steel "needle" with a concrete core, about 34 m high. The "needle," inclined at a 39° angle, anchors suspension cables which support the central span. A computer system at the eastern end of the bridge operates the turning mechanism when required.
The Frigate Sarmiento
So in 1893 the Rivadavia captain rose to the Chief of the General Staff of the Navy, Rear Admiral Daniel de Solier, a project to build a training ship for the Navy Argentina.
Foundations of Rivadavia achieved the political authorities consider, materializing the project that resulted after the signing of the contract concerned the ship construction.
On 13 September 1895, by decree, Captain Manuel Domecq García was appointed commander-inspector training ship to be built, for which we were given the history and future plans of the ship.
Domecq García made an exhaustive study of this and produced a lengthy report to the General Staff of the Navy, in which making allegations and requesting permission to make changes to the original project, made assented to superiority. Arrived in Britain, the captain contacted Domecq García directors Laird Brothers Shipyard in Birkenhead. After numerous studies, consultations and discussions, it was a definitive agreement, which ended with the signing of the contract.
The sea trials were held on May 19, 1898-five days after the weapons were tested. On 30 June 1898 the national flag was hoisted on the frigate President Sarmiento.
By Lt. Thorne, the Sarmiento sailed from Liverpool on July 14, 1898, with stops in Vigo and Genoa. Navigating only by sail, arrived in the outer roads of the port of Buenos Aires on September 10 of that year.
Tigre
Tigre is a town in the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, situated in the north of Greater Buenos Aires, 28 km (17 mi) north of Buenos Aires city. Tigre lies on the Paraná Delta and is an important tourist and weekend attraction, easily reached by bus and train services, including the scenic Tren de la Costa. It is the principal town of the Tigre Partido.
The town sits on an island created by several small streams and rivers and was founded in 1820, after floods had destroyed other settlements in the area, then known as the Partido de las Conchas.
The area's name derives from the “tigres” or jaguars that were hunted there, on occasions, in its early years. The area was first settled by Europeans who came to farm the land, and the port developed to serve the Delta and to bring fruit and wood from the Delta and ports upstream on the Paraná river. Tigre is still an important timber processing port. The “Puerto de Frutos” (fruit port) is now a crafts fair located in the old fruit market by the riverside. The Naval Museum is also nearby. Antiques shops, riverside restaurants and pubs, the casino and Parque de la Costa, an amusement park and its renowned natural beauty make Tigre a popular tourist destination throughout the year.
Tigre is also the starting point for a visit to the Paraná Delta. For locals and tourists alike, vintage mahogany commuter launches and motorboats are the favourite way to travel through its web of inter-connecting rivers and streams. English-style rowing clubs, countless marinas, humble dwellings and elegant mansions from the “Belle Époque”, such as the Tigre Club, are to be seen, as well as small pensions and upscale lodges, restaurants, teahouses and simple picnic sites.
Tigre has, in recent years, seen an influx of people relocating to the city from other parts of Greater Buenos Aires. In recent years it has seen a rise in upmarket tourism, spawning new spa developments and clientele such as the pop star, Madonna.
House´s of Sarmiento
Over the river and Sarmiento Arroyo de los Reyes, one arrives at the house of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. Formerly constituted his retirement, then became school and is now a museum remodeled and restored. The historic home is surrounded by a metal frame, glazed on all four sides and roof, which surrounds and protects. The story goes that the Delta was an uninhabited archipelago, wild and communal property, which, thanks to Sarmiento, whom the Delta map made him think of the Nile and its fertility, was transformed into a region that attracted a significant group of people and capital, which began manufacturing and agricultural progress.
Around 1850 decided to organize a voyage of exploration to encourage the citizens of Buenos Aires to populate the beautiful islands, rivers and streams.
It was so about 500 people, among whom were his friends Bartolomé Mitre and Carlos Pellegrini, departed for the islands to "civilize", as he put it. After the first of the first expeditions and travel, tourists were adding considerably and went on to become neighbors. In 1855, Sarmiento bought their island and in 1860, he had his home in the Delta. The house is a small wooden building with tile roof.
Check our Picasa album
Riverfront, Puerto Madero appears as the newest neighborhood, with a wide range of attractions, restaurants, bars and shops. Puerto Madero area, emerged in the late nineteenth century as an alternative to overcome the old pto created in colonial times. In the first decades of the twentieth century, however, the PTO was also replaced, and remained inactive until the works were undertaken aimed at renewal. During the 1990s, the conversion of the area gave the Puerto Madero neighborhood of its present. With over forty food places, several hotels, a cinema complex, a church headquarters Arg Catholic University (UCA) and a huge amount of offices and housing, is currently a magnet for those seeking enjoy a new neighborhood that combines the old with the new, combining the history of their dams and old buildings with the latest trends in technology and comfort of its facilities. Puerto Madero is a neighborhood synonymous with restaurants, entertainment and informationIn a few days the makeshift terminal mudarán eight bus lines that currently runs on the square of the Tango, compared to Luna Park, a venue located at the corner of Avenida Madero and Cecilia Grierson, where begins the Puerto Madero neighborhood, a zone with almost constant traffic jams. This provision, being conducted by the national government with the approval of the city, answered the remodeling is being done at the Central Post Office building (under the Ministry of Planning of the Nation) and in the surrounding area. The completion of these works was planned for the Bicentennial, but would demand another two years.El Porteño Building has a long central volume with smaller vessels and lower diagonal pointing toward the docks and a tower that stands at the side facing the river. The brick building was constructed in English and for recycling completely changed the interior, allowing seven levels now present instead of the five that had originally. The impeller and alma mater of the ambitious project is Alan Faena, founder of the successful clothing brand Via Vai. After several years of success with his clothing company, Slaughter came off of it and launched into project planning and most important real estate of late billionaire. Was attended by the prominent French architect Philippe Starck, and with the support of several major investors from around the world: the businessman Austin Hearst newspaper, the brothers Christopher and Robert Burch (owners of the North American investment fund and former Red Badge owners clothing brand Eagle's Eyes) and Russian Len Blavatnik, the oil Acces Industries. Faena building project began three years ago and thanks to these foreign investments managed successfully through the most critical moments of the crisis.In the area of Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires, Argentina can get information about restaurants, bars and shops. It is also an online guide to tourism and real estate, where you will find information on businesses, properties, hotels, events and places of interest
women Bridge
Puente de la Mujer is a rotating footbridge for Dock 3 of the Puerto Madero commercial district of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is of the Cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge type and is also a swing bridge, but somewhat unusual in its asymmetrical arrangement. It has a single mast with cables suspending a portion of the bridge which rotates 90 degrees in order to allow water traffic to pass. When it swings to allow watercraft passage, the far end comes to a resting point on a stabilizing pylon.
Designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava on a plan very similar to a 250-metre bridge over the Guadalquivir River in Seville, Spain (1992) and a 213-metre bridge over the Sacramento River in Redding, California (2004), it has a forward-, rather than a reverse-angled cantilever, as is seen in those bridges. Started in 1998, it was inaugurated on December 20, 2001, and is the only one of Calatrava's works in Latin America. The architect has described the design as a synthesis of the image of a couple dancing the tango.
The 170-metre pedestrian bridge weighs 8 tonnes, is 6.20 m wide and is divided into two fixed portions, 25 m and 32.50 m long respectively, and a middle section of 102.5 m that rotates on a white concrete pylon, allowing vessels to pass in less than two minutes. This central section is supported by a steel "needle" with a concrete core, about 34 m high. The "needle," inclined at a 39° angle, anchors suspension cables which support the central span. A computer system at the eastern end of the bridge operates the turning mechanism when required.
The Frigate Sarmiento
So in 1893 the Rivadavia captain rose to the Chief of the General Staff of the Navy, Rear Admiral Daniel de Solier, a project to build a training ship for the Navy Argentina.
Foundations of Rivadavia achieved the political authorities consider, materializing the project that resulted after the signing of the contract concerned the ship construction.
On 13 September 1895, by decree, Captain Manuel Domecq García was appointed commander-inspector training ship to be built, for which we were given the history and future plans of the ship.
Domecq García made an exhaustive study of this and produced a lengthy report to the General Staff of the Navy, in which making allegations and requesting permission to make changes to the original project, made assented to superiority. Arrived in Britain, the captain contacted Domecq García directors Laird Brothers Shipyard in Birkenhead. After numerous studies, consultations and discussions, it was a definitive agreement, which ended with the signing of the contract.
The sea trials were held on May 19, 1898-five days after the weapons were tested. On 30 June 1898 the national flag was hoisted on the frigate President Sarmiento.
By Lt. Thorne, the Sarmiento sailed from Liverpool on July 14, 1898, with stops in Vigo and Genoa. Navigating only by sail, arrived in the outer roads of the port of Buenos Aires on September 10 of that year.
Tigre
Tigre is a town in the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, situated in the north of Greater Buenos Aires, 28 km (17 mi) north of Buenos Aires city. Tigre lies on the Paraná Delta and is an important tourist and weekend attraction, easily reached by bus and train services, including the scenic Tren de la Costa. It is the principal town of the Tigre Partido.
The town sits on an island created by several small streams and rivers and was founded in 1820, after floods had destroyed other settlements in the area, then known as the Partido de las Conchas.
The area's name derives from the “tigres” or jaguars that were hunted there, on occasions, in its early years. The area was first settled by Europeans who came to farm the land, and the port developed to serve the Delta and to bring fruit and wood from the Delta and ports upstream on the Paraná river. Tigre is still an important timber processing port. The “Puerto de Frutos” (fruit port) is now a crafts fair located in the old fruit market by the riverside. The Naval Museum is also nearby. Antiques shops, riverside restaurants and pubs, the casino and Parque de la Costa, an amusement park and its renowned natural beauty make Tigre a popular tourist destination throughout the year.
Tigre is also the starting point for a visit to the Paraná Delta. For locals and tourists alike, vintage mahogany commuter launches and motorboats are the favourite way to travel through its web of inter-connecting rivers and streams. English-style rowing clubs, countless marinas, humble dwellings and elegant mansions from the “Belle Époque”, such as the Tigre Club, are to be seen, as well as small pensions and upscale lodges, restaurants, teahouses and simple picnic sites.
Tigre has, in recent years, seen an influx of people relocating to the city from other parts of Greater Buenos Aires. In recent years it has seen a rise in upmarket tourism, spawning new spa developments and clientele such as the pop star, Madonna.
House´s of Sarmiento
Over the river and Sarmiento Arroyo de los Reyes, one arrives at the house of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. Formerly constituted his retirement, then became school and is now a museum remodeled and restored. The historic home is surrounded by a metal frame, glazed on all four sides and roof, which surrounds and protects. The story goes that the Delta was an uninhabited archipelago, wild and communal property, which, thanks to Sarmiento, whom the Delta map made him think of the Nile and its fertility, was transformed into a region that attracted a significant group of people and capital, which began manufacturing and agricultural progress.
Around 1850 decided to organize a voyage of exploration to encourage the citizens of Buenos Aires to populate the beautiful islands, rivers and streams.
It was so about 500 people, among whom were his friends Bartolomé Mitre and Carlos Pellegrini, departed for the islands to "civilize", as he put it. After the first of the first expeditions and travel, tourists were adding considerably and went on to become neighbors. In 1855, Sarmiento bought their island and in 1860, he had his home in the Delta. The house is a small wooden building with tile roof.
Check our Picasa album
viernes, 2 de noviembre de 2012
FORTH DAY
In this day we went to Temaikén and Technopolis. It was a very cold and rainy.
Temaikén
Is a zoo in Belén de Escobar, vicinity of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the only AZA accredited zoo in that country. The name is a portmanteau of tem (earth) and aiken (life) in the language of the native Tehuelche people.
Covering 178 acres, Temaikèn specializes in native Argentine wildlife and exotic and threatened species. In addition to the zoo the Temaikèn Foundation owns the Osununu wildlife conservation area. It also has programs to manage and protect the Parana Pine ecosystem and butterflies and orchids within the national wildlife conservation system.
Temaikèn Biopark is a popular tourist destination.
TechnopolisIt is a science, technology, industry and art mega exhibition, based in Argentina and the largest in Latin America. Located in Villa Martelli, in the Vicente Lopez division, Technopolis was inaugurated on July 14, 2011, by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
Initially, Technopolis was scheduled to be held in Buenos Aires after the Argentina Bicentennial celebrations.
The mega exhibition was planned to be the end of the Bicentennial celebrations organized by the national government in 2010, and inaugurated on November 19, 2010 in Buenos Aires for the "Day of Sovereignty", the anniversary of the Battle of Vuelta de Obligado, in the area of parks of the Avenida Figueroa Alcorta. However, in October 2010, the Chief of Government of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri, denied authorization in such plots as "the transport system would collapse in the city."
Thus, the national government decided to relocate the mega exhibition in an area of fifty hectares in the Province of Buenos Aires, located in Villa Martelli, Vicente López, at the former barracks of Army Battalion 601.
Source of information:Temaikén
Tecnópolis
miércoles, 24 de octubre de 2012
THIRD DAY
On this day we went to La Plata, Cathedral of La Plata and Natural Science Museum,.It was very cold in this day but we had a good time and we met many interesting places.
La Plata
La Plata is the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and of La Plata partido. According to the 2001 census, the partido has a population of 574,369 and its metropolitan area has 694,253 inhabitants. The city itself has a population of 186,524.
La Plata was planned and developed to serve as the provincial capital after the city of Buenos Aires was federalized in 1880, and it was officially founded by Governor Dardo Rocha on 19 November 1882. Its construction is fully documented in photographs by Tomás Bradley Sutton.La Plata was renamed Eva Perón City (Ciudad Eva Perón) between 1952 and 1955.
The city is home to two important football teams: Estudiantes de La Plata, that play in the first division, and Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, currently in second division.
Cathedral of La Plata
The Cathedral of La Plata, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, is the largest Roman Catholic sanctuary in the city of La Plata in Argentina, and one of the largest in Latin America. This Neogothic edifice is located in the geographical center of the city, facing the central square, Plaza Moreno, and the City Hall.
Inspired by the European cathedrals of Amiens and Cologne, its plans were drawn by architect Ernesto Meyer under the direction of city planner Pedro Benoit. The cornerstone was laid in 1884, and it was consecrated as the Parroquia Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in 1902. The parish church, which continued undergoing works, was designated a cathedral in 1932.
Natural Science Museum
The Museo de La Plata is a natural history museum located in the city of La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is part of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Museum of La Plata Museum UNLP.El immediate background Archaeological and Anthropological Museum, founded on October 17, 1877 in the city of Buenos Aires, then capital of the province of the same behalf. This integrated museum collections made up 15,000 copies of pieces of bone and industrial objects donated by Francisco Moreno, appointed Director of Life itself.
From the federalization of Buenos Aires in 1880 and the founding of the city of La Plata as the new capital of the province in 1882, the provincial government ordered the transfer of the collections to the city Moreno in June 1884 and the construction of a building that will house, whose work began in October of that same year.1's when Moreno also donated 2000 volumes of his personal library.
The museum building was completed in 1889, although its public opening was held a few months earlier, on November 19, 1888, on the sixth anniversary of the founding of the city. In 1906, months after the nationalization of the National University of La Plata, and being the college reorganized Joaquín V. Gonzalez, the museum becomes part of it, incorporating teaching and research activities. Moreno is then that leaves the direction of the museum because he disagreed with the new direction that meant incorporating those facilities had to be reduced, part of the library is distributed in other universities and the press and the adjacent land.
martes, 16 de octubre de 2012
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