After this, we took advantage of the beautiful day to take a stroll through central La Plata. Here are a few pictures:
In Plaza San Martin, right by the Comisión.
A government building of some sort.
Headless statue
A pretty typical street.
Interesting, politically-charged graffiti is all over the city, often protesting policies of impunity. A lot of the graffiti poses the question "Dondé esta Julio Lopez?" - "Where is Julio Lopez?"-- a man who was disappeared and detained in a clandestine prison during the military dictatorship and disappeared again in 2006 right before giving final testimony in a trial of human rights violations. (This I found out from doing a quick wikipedia search: read more here; it's very interesting.)
The Teatro Argentino: an enormous, fairly hideous structure, but inside it's a very nice theater. I can't wait to go see a performance there: it hosts operas, ballets, and concerts. Coming up soon is Swan Lake-- the most incredible thing is that the price for general admission is 24 pesos-- somewhere around 6/7 dollars! And even less for students. What a deal for a night of opera! (Also, the other side of this building is where a bunch of boys come and skateboard-- Raymond would be coming here a lot!)
I'm not sure what this building is- something from the government. Beautiful! Unfortunately I had forgotten to put my memory chip back in, so I could only take these pictures and didn't have space for any of the Catedral, which was lovely. We're going to go back to go up the cathedral tower and see the city, so I'll post pictures then!
A pretty typical street.
Interesting, politically-charged graffiti is all over the city, often protesting policies of impunity. A lot of the graffiti poses the question "Dondé esta Julio Lopez?" - "Where is Julio Lopez?"-- a man who was disappeared and detained in a clandestine prison during the military dictatorship and disappeared again in 2006 right before giving final testimony in a trial of human rights violations. (This I found out from doing a quick wikipedia search: read more here; it's very interesting.)
The Teatro Argentino: an enormous, fairly hideous structure, but inside it's a very nice theater. I can't wait to go see a performance there: it hosts operas, ballets, and concerts. Coming up soon is Swan Lake-- the most incredible thing is that the price for general admission is 24 pesos-- somewhere around 6/7 dollars! And even less for students. What a deal for a night of opera! (Also, the other side of this building is where a bunch of boys come and skateboard-- Raymond would be coming here a lot!)
I'm not sure what this building is- something from the government. Beautiful! Unfortunately I had forgotten to put my memory chip back in, so I could only take these pictures and didn't have space for any of the Catedral, which was lovely. We're going to go back to go up the cathedral tower and see the city, so I'll post pictures then!
Beautiful photos! I'll check our basement for Julio... many have been lost there.
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