The Historian · Bautista · Buenos Aires
Avenida de Mayo
They demolished colonial blocks to build this axis and prove the republic belonged in Europe. The whole ambition of the era is one straight line.
The belle-époque boulevard cut through the old city in the 1890s to link Casa Rosada and Congress — Buenos Aires playing Paris and Madrid.
— Bautista, The Historian
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