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.