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Floralis Genérica est une sculpture mobile en acier et aluminium située Plaza de las Naciones Unidas, Avenida Figueroa Alcorta, à Buenos Aires, un cadeau à la ville de l'architecte Eduardo Catalano. Pour Catalano, c'est la « synthèse de toutes les fleurs et à la fois un espoir qui renaît chaque jour en s'épanouissant ». Créée en 2002, elle ferme ses pétales chaque soir au coucher du Soleil et les rouvre le matin suivant à 8 h. C'est une sculpture métallique inaugurée le 13 avril 2002. Elle se trouve au centre d’un parc dans le quartier de la Recoleta, à Buenos Aires. Ce monument de 20 m de haut et de 18 t possède six pétales géants qui s’animent grâce à un système hydraulique et à des cellules photovoltaïques. Les pétales s’ouvrent au début du jour avant de se refermer en fin de journée.
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Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires)
The National Museum of Fine Arts (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes) is an Argentine art museum in Buenos Aires, located in the Recoleta section of the city. The Museum inaugurated a branch in Neuquén in 2004. The museum hosts works by Goya, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Rodin, Manet and Chagall among other artists.
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Floralis Genérica
Floralis Genérica is a sculpture made of steel and aluminum located in United Nations Square in Buenos Aires, a gift to the city by the Argentine architect Eduardo Catalano. Catalano once said that the flower "is a synthesis of all the flowers and, at the same time, a hope reborn every day at opening." It was created in 2002. The sculpture was designed to move, closing its petals in the evening and opening them in the morning.
The sculpture is located in the center of a park of four acres of wooded boundaries, surrounded by paths that get closer and provide different perspectives of the monument, and placed above a reflecting pool, which apart from fulfilling its aesthetic function, protects it. It represents a large flower made of stainless steel with aluminum skeleton and reinforced concrete, which looks up at the sky, extending to its six petals. It weighs eighteen tons and is 23 m (75 ft) high.
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Plaza Francia, Buenos Aires
Plaza Francia (Spanish: "France Square") is a public square in the barrio of Recoleta in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The nearby Plaza Intendente Alvear is commonly but mistakenly known by the same name. It was created by a Municipal Ordinance on October 19, 1909, as part of the changes introduced in the urban landscape on the occasion of the Argentina Centennial. Designed by French landscape architect Carlos Thays, it is part of a broad set of squares including Plaza Intendente Alvear, Plaza San Martín de Tours, Plaza Juan XXIII, Plaza Ramón J. Cárcano, Plaza Dante and Plaza Rubén Darío, among others.
The square is dominated by Émile Peynot's Monument of France to Argentina, inaugurated in 1910 and gifted by the French community on the occasion of the Centennial.
The monument represents the ties between the two countries, including the republicanism and the similarities in their histories around 1800. Its four bas-reliefs in bronze evoke central facts of the history of both countries: the Primera Junta and the Crossing of the Andes for Argentina, and the Storming of the Bastille and Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen for France. The two female figures that crown the monument symbolize Argentina and France, guided by an angel that personifies Glory. The monument also features plaques that commemorate personalities of French origin: grenadier Domingo Porteau, who died during the Battle of San Lorenzo in the Argentine War of Independence, and writer Émile Zola. A monument to Louis Braille within Plaza Francia was inaugurated in 1977.
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Monument to Bartolomé Mitre
The Monumento ecuestre a Bartolomé Mitre located on Plaza Mitre, a landmark in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and was raised in honor of Bartolomé Mitre (1821-1906).
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Embassy of the United Kingdom, Buenos Aires
The Embassy of the United Kingdom in Buenos Aires is the chief diplomatic mission of the United Kingdom in Argentina. The embassy also represents the British Overseas Territories in Argentina.
It is located on Dr Luís Agote street in the Recoleta neighbourhood. The current British Ambassador to Argentina is Kirsty Hayes.
There were previously British Consulates in the cities of Rosario, La Plata, Bahia Blanca, Santa Fe and Mendoza.
Due to the turbulent nature of Argentina–United Kingdom relations, the embassy has frequently been the site of protests against the actions of the UK government, particularly over the Falkland Islands, over which Argentina claims sovereignty.