Plaza
de Mayo
This square was and is
the scene of all major political and social events within Argentina and Buenos Aires.
From the balcony of the Casa Rosada, Eva e Juan Peron were applauded by vast and
enthusiastic crowds.
In this square, every Thursday afternoon for the past 20 years, the mothers (now
grandmothers) of the "desparecidos" (the "disappeared ones") march
around the Piramide de Mayo in their campaign for a full account of the atrocities of
dictatorship.
General Jose de San Martin (1778-1850) was one of the heroes (together with Simon
Bolivar and Bernardo O'Higgins) of the liberation of South America from Spanish
colonization in the period between 1812 and 1822).
His tomb is located in the "Catedral Metropolitana", where a guard of honor
permanently watches over it.
The Catedral Metropolitana is on the northern corner of the Plaza de Mayo.
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