10 Historic Monuments Which are Fading Away

By siliconindia   |   Friday, 14 October 2011, 21:29 IST   |    1 Comments
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10. City of La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
City of La Plata, Buenos Aires Province
La Plata is the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. La Plata was planned and developed to serve as the provincial capital after the city of Buenos Aires was federalized in 1880, and it was officially founded by Governor Dardo Rocha on 19 November 1882. La Plata's architecture is representative of the city's immigrant history and diversity, with styles mingling German baroque, French Art Nouveau, Italian Renaissance, and Spanish colonial. Changes to local urban policy, insufficient preservation ordinances, and development pressures endanger not only important buildings, but also the historic scale and layout of the urban landscape.