Plaza de Mayo various

2 A bit different angle pics from Plaza de mayo, Buenos Aires. 1. From one of the fountains towards Casa Rosada. 2. Plaza de Mayo munument.

Plaza de Mayo flowers

A nice picture of the Casa Rosada and Plaza de Mayo because of the beautiful flowers in the front of the picture. Most of the time you don't see them!

Casas Rosadas

I was looking at pictures from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and i had all forgotten it was pink! Una casa rosada! And what do we have in Buenos Aires? La Casa Rosada! Nice to put together in one post!

1. The Egyptian Museum
















2. La Casa Rosada

A Fall day in Buenos Aires

Another movie for today!

Taken on June 6th 2007. That's D-Day (1944)isn't it? I made a round on foot through downtown. Started at Plaza de Mayo which was foggy. Special effects one could say! From there via Florida Street (didn't film because i already made a film there last April) to Túcuman. You will see the crossing with Leandro N. Alem and then straight towards Puerto Madero. Some Puerto Madero North side parts and then back towards Plaza de Mayo. You see a nice square in between with the Casa Rosada. And then the Plaza de Mayo again, now in bright sunshine, with fountains, the Cathedral and again the Casa Rosada.

Music is from the Pearl Harbor Soundtrack.

Casa Rosada

La Casa Rosada (Spanish for "the Pink House"), officially known as the Casa de Gobierno ("Government House"), is the official seat of the executive branch of the government of Argentina. (When not working at the Casa Rosada, the president resides in a compound in Olivos, Buenos Aires.)

The Casa Rosada was built in the location which, since the foundation of the city of Buenos Aires, the top political institutions of Argentina resided. The current Italian-style building, however, dates back only to 1873. Constructed in the late 19th century over the foundations of an earlier Customs House, Post Office, and fortress, it stands at the eastern end of the Plaza de Mayo. Its balcony, which faces this large square, has served as a podium by many figures, including Eva Perón, who rallied the descamisados there, and Pope John Paul II, who visited Buenos Aires in 1998. Madonna sang her filmed rendition of the song "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina," for the movie Evita, from the balcony after a meeting with then President Carlos Menem.

The building is painted a light pink colour (and a darker pink colour on the side facing the plaza, after a recent repainting). It is currently going through an extensive renovation, including repainting. Dubbed "Casa Rosada" by President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, it is said that he chose this colour scheme in order to defuse political tension by fusing the red and white colours of the country's opposing political parties. An alternative explanation points to the fact that the original paint used contained cow blood to prevent damage from humidity.

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