We woke up
at half past eight, we made our baggage, had breakfast and save everything in
the bus. We set to “Puerto Madero”, doing a city tour around this neighborhood
while a guide told us some things about this place.
Puerto Madero
“Puerto
Madero” is one of the 48 neighborhoods in which Buenos Aires City is divided. Its
location near the centre of the city, the extension of it and the sight to the
river made this place one of the most exclusive of Buenos Aires.
It is
called in that way owing to Eduardo Madero, a merchant that presents three
project of port, the last was approved by the President Julio Argentino Roca in
1882.
We met the
hall of Hilton Hotel, an extremely famous hotel, we crossed the “Puente de la
Mujer”, a rotary port designed by the Architect Santiago Calatrava in Buenos
Aires City.
Puente de la
Mujer
Puente de
la Mujer (Spanish for "Women's Bridge") is a rotating footbridge for
Dock 3 of the Puerto Madero commercial district of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It
is of the Cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge type and is also a swing bridge,
but somewhat unusual in its asymmetrical arrangement. It has a single mast with
cables suspending a portion of the bridge which rotates 90 degrees in order to
allow water traffic to pass. When it swings to allow watercraft passage, the
far end comes to a resting point on a stabilizing pylon.
After that
we visited the frigate “ARA President Sarmiento” which turned in 1897 into the
first bout modern school that Argentina built specifically with that objective.
Fragata
Sarmiento
It was
built in England, did 39 journeys around the world crossing 1.100.000 nautical
miles always in peace missions. Now it is in the Dock III, in Puerto Madero,
turned into a museum.
We went
over inside the frigate it and it started raining, consequently we went back to
the bus going to Tigre, where we had breakfast on a bout.
Tigre
Tigre
(Tiger) is a town in the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, situated in the
north of Greater Buenos Aires, 28 km (17 mi) north of Buenos Aires city. Tigre
lies on the Paraná Delta and is an important tourist and weekend attraction,
easily reached by bus and train services, including the scenic “Tren de la
Costa”. It is the principal town of the Tigre Partido.
The town
sits on an island created by several small streams and rivers and was founded
in 1820, after floods had destroyed other settlements in the area, then known
as the Partido de las Conchas.
Later, the
ship took us in a ride to the Sarmiento house. A guide explained us that in
that place lots of school were founded, Sarmiento lived lots of time, wrote
books, etc. We came back to the bout and due to the rain we could visit the
“Parque de la Costa” and “Puerto de Frutas”.
The trip was pretty good, it was useful to know about Buenos Aires in a
way that we wouldn’t have the opportunity to do. We saw plenty of history,
culture, how the society was divided, politics and economy of the capital of
our big country, Argentina.
