Baldwin reflections

This is a so called Baldwin reflection. This is a train in Retiro station, Buenos Aires. So up, so down one could say.

English tower different view

A nice view of the English tower. I don't know where it's take from. In the back is Retiro Station. On the left would be Plaza San Martin and on the right the port.

Retiro from the air

Nice image from an airplane of Buenos Aires. You see Retiro (most notably the English Tower). My estimate is that this is short before landing on Jorge Newbery Airport. (at the North of the city for mainly domestic flights)

Retiro image

Special image of Retiro, Buenos Aires which captures a few symbols there. It looks like this image was taken from Plaza San Martin if i judge where the two men are sitting on. The flag is present which could be from the below Malvinas monument. Further you see the English Tower on the left and in the back you see cranes from the harbor.

Taxi drive

Here is the earlier promised movie already!

Took the cab from Avenida Directorio in the Flores area all the way to almost Retiro station. Nice views of the city in drive by as well as familiar spots for tourists occasionally. And it was a beautiful fall day as you can see!

San Martin beginning Florida

This is actually also Plaza San Martin but then the beginning. It's a nice little square as you can see. The street you are looking into is Florida Street actually. You find anything there from papershops to Christian Dior.

Retiro Station

One image from the inside of Retiro Station. Already discussed this in an earlier post. Use search with the word Retiro. Subte is here the start of Line C all the way to Estacion Constitution. Also already posted about.

English Tower

And this is then the English Tower. It's a gift from the British Government. I think i did an article already on it. Use the search here to find it. I'm too lazy today! A bit sour is that it faces the Malvinas War monument and grfaiti on the bottom of the tower also makes the feelings about that war very clear. Which is not on the pictures btw

Strange fruits

Also opposite on the previous picture are trees with these fruits in it. I have no idea what they are!

Plaza San Martin Part 2

Second part of this area of the plaza. You are looking towards Retiro Station and the English Tower.

Plaza San Martin Part 1

Absolutely beautiful sight to see both below and on top. This is part 1. From the first picture. Would you turn on that street you would end up on this end of the Florida Street with all the shopping. Go right and you get Retiro Station and the well known English Tower. But that's for later.

Between Puerto Madero and Retiro

Walking the distance to Retiro came across two interesting things to make a photo from. 1. This alley in the middle of both lanes of a big avenue actually. And clearly it's Fall here. 2. Even here Microsoft exists.

Retiro

Retiro is a barrio or district in north-eastern Buenos Aires, Argentina, famous for its high-society inhabitants, the Santa Fe avenue shopping district, San Martín square, and the Retiro transportation hub, which features train, subway (Line C), and the main bus terminal, always teeming with commuters in weekdays.

The northern end of Florida Street is in the leafy San Martín square, surrounded by great palaces and hotels. The Retiro lowlands were the training grounds for José de San Martín's Granaderos corps, and modern-day San Martín square features a statue of the independence hero on horseback, as well as the memorial for the dead in the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas war.

Across the street, opposite Retiro train station, there is a park which features the Torre de los Ingleses ("British Tower"), a monument donated by the Anglo-Argentine community for the 1910 centenary celebrations, with the relief of the British arms at its bottom. This monument has been the object of several acts of sabotage in the wake of the aforementioned conflict. The park was previously named Plaza Británica but was named Plaza Fuerza Aérea Argentina ('Argentine Air Force Square') in 1982.

The Israeli embassy on Arroyo street was bombed on March 17, 1992 with a toll of 29 casualties and 242 wounded.

The main axis of transportation in Retiro is Libertador avenue, which changes its name to Leandro N. Alem after crossing Retiro train terminal. To the east of Leandro N. Alem avenue stands the high-rise business district of Catalinas Norte as well as the northern end of the Puerto Madero development, which has recycled the old port warehouses into lofts and entertainment facilities.

Retiro is (together with Recoleta and parts of Palermo and Belgrano) a popular residential area for expatriate executives.

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Torre de los Ingleses

This Elizabethan-style clock tower, which some call the Argentine Big Ben, was a gift from the British community of Buenos Aires after building the nearby Retiro railroad station complex. At the turn of the 20th century, Argentina had vast natural resources like grain and cattle waiting to be exploited, but it was the British Empire that had the investment capability and technology to create Retiro and connect Buenos Aires to its hinterlands to get products to markets overseas. This, however, was always a sore point, and for years many Argentines felt exploited by Great Britain. Recently the tower was renamed the Torre Monumental, in response to the very common post-Islas Malvinas/Falkland Islands War renaming of anything associated with Great Britain, yet nearly all locals still call it the British Clock Tower. The monument survived the war unscathed, but a few years later, during an anniversary memorial service, an angry mob attacked it. They destroyed portions of the base and also toppled a statue of George Canning, the first British diplomat to recognize the country's independence from Spain. (It's now safely kept at the British Embassy.) The Islas Malvinas-Falkland Islands War Memorial was purposely placed across the street as a permanent reminder of Britain's battle with Argentina. There is little to see in the monument itself, save for a small museum of photographs. The main attraction here is the view: A free elevator ride will take you to the top floor with its wraparound view of the port, the trains, and the city of Buenos Aires itself. There is also a small Buenos Aires city tourism information center inside.

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