Le cabildo de Buenos Aires est un édifice historique, pour partie vestige et pour partie reconstitution d’un ancien bâtiment de même nom, situé sur la place de Mai, dans le centre historique de la capitale argentine. Autrefois, le terme cabildo de Buenos Aires désignait la mairie, c’est-à-dire le corps exécutif municipal de la ville, incarnation locale d’une institution politique spécifiquement coloniale qui, à Buenos Aires, resta en vigueur de la fondation de la ville en 1580 jusqu’à sa suppression en 1821. Actuellement, ce même terme se réfère uniquement à l’édifice qui hébergea cette institution et qui, déclaré monument historique national en 1933, abrite aujourd’hui, après d’importantes modifications dans sa structure, le Musée historique national du Cabildo et de la révolution de Mai (en esp. Museo Histórico Nacional del Cabildo y de la Revolución de Mayo). Le cabildo de Buenos Aires fut le théâtre principal de la révolution de Mai de 1810, qui entraîna la destitution du vice-roi espagnol Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros et à laquelle s’enchaîna ensuite la longue guerre aboutissant à l’indépendance des Provinces-Unies du Río de la Plata. Le bâtiment du cabildo est sis au n° 65 de la calle Bolívar, où il occupe une parcelle de terrain qui lui fut jadis assignée par le fondateur de la ville, Juan de Garay, et fait face à la place de Mai, le site originel et fondateur de la ville. Érigé dans la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle, il fit l’objet de multiples remaniements au cours de son histoire, échappa de justesse à la démolition totale dans les années 1930, et ne prit son aspect actuel qu’en 1940.

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Cabildo of Buenos Aires

The Cabildo of Buenos Aires (Spanish: Cabildo de Buenos Aires) is the public building in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, that was used as a seat of the town council during the colonial era and the government house of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. The building was also seat of other institutions such as the Royal Audience of Buenos Aires, the highest court for appeal of second instance in the territory, operated from April 6, 1661 to January 23, 1812, when it was replaced by an Appeals Chamber. On September 13, 1810, the Primera Junta created the Public Library of Buenos Aires, being the Cabildo its first location for two years. The institution that was housed for the longest in the building was the Buenos Aires prison, from 1608 to 1877, when the prisoners were transferred to the new National Penitentiary on Las Heras Street, when it was inaugurated. The Cabildo was declared National Historic Monument in 1933 and was opened to public as a museum in 1938.
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Buenos Aires City Legislature

The Buenos Aires City Legislature (Spanish: Legislatura de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, commonly known as the Legislatura Porteña) is the legislative power of the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is housed in the Legislature Palace (Spanish: Palacio de la Legislatura), an architectural landmark in the barrio of Montserrat.
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Buenos Aires City Legislature Palace

The Buenos Aires Legislature Palace (Spanish: Palacio de la Legislatura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires) houses the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is an architectural landmark in the city's Montserrat district, situated in a triangular block bounded by the streets Hipólito Yrigoyen Street, Presidente Julio A. Roca Avenue and Perú Street. Built of grey granite, it has a Neoclassical design. The building is open to the public on week-days only. The building contains the Esteban Echeverría Library, Salón Rosado (also known as the "Eva Perón Hall"), and a carillon which, when it was installed in 1930, was the largest in South America.
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Buenos Aires House of Culture

The Buenos Aires House of Culture is an architectural landmark in the Montserrat section of the Argentine capital.
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A la Ciudad de Londres

A la Ciudad de Londres was a traditional European department store, which operated in Buenos Aires from 1872 to 1922. It was the first large clothing store established in the city of Buenos Aires towards the end of the 19th century.