Founded in 1907 with the Victorian style, has one of the most complete collections of native plants and animals in the country.


The diaries of the late nineteenth century tell of the existence of a small collection of animals located in the emerging Paseo del Bosque, near the historic founding of the former Estancia Iraola.En 1979, after relying on the Ministries of Public Works and Agricultural Affairs the province of Buenos Aires, the zoo became part of the Department of Landscape of the Municipality of the city of La Plata. In subsequent steps were carried out new activities and projects. We can mention at this stage, among other contributions, the realization of the first sample for the blind (1991), the training of candidates for carers (1993) and the realization of scientific and technical exchanges with provincial agencies and other zoological research locals.


Today, with a world battered by an anthropocentric worldview and threatened biodiversity, which are called to protect, feel the need to develop coherent proposals that we avoid falling into distress and despair of seeing animals die or live poorly locked in cages of punishment.


On this basis and bearing in mind that the success of a zoo depends, among other things, the capacity for survival and reproduction of the species in his collection, the interactions between them can be established and the possibility that this may be experienced by those who visit, it should raise a conceptual and pragmatic deconstruction and provide innovative alternatives.


The objectives that move the site today include:


Provide a broad overview of the patterns and processes that have caused biodiversity to contribute to the education of future generations by encouraging a love of nature and ethics of conservation includes sustainable use of natural resources.
Encourage scientific research concerning the natural history, ecology, reproduction, behavior, taxonomy and distribution of plant and animal species Neotropical, especially those existing in the Zoological Gardens, in order to deepen the knowledge of them as the only alternative to ensure their conservation and ecosystems.
Develop breeding and management of threatened or in retreat numerical order to contribute to the decrease of the events of regional biodiversity loss by designing conservation strategies.
Adhere to the projects to protect biodiversity:
Raising in one place.
Give priority to our animals.
The zoo must fund maintenance projects to conserve space







Dirección: paseo del Bosque s/n. Teléfono: (0221) 427-3925. Horario: martes a domingos de 9 a 18.http://www.jardinzoologico.laplata.gov.ar/zoologico/sitio.htm

The house that Dr. Peter Curutchet entrusted with Le Corbusier in 1948 - declared of provincial interest, tourist and National Historic Landmark in 1987 - is a successful show of the five principles as the Swiss-French architect enunciated in 1926, but with the particularity that they were adapted to a small lot, between party and a longitudinal axis which is at an angle close to the 45th regarding the municipal line. Ultimately, a successful reconciliation of universal principles with the particularities of the urban context of the city of La Plata.The house is located, as already said, in La Plata, capital of the province, Buenos Aires, 60 kilometers from the Federal Capital, in a residential area across from the Plaza Rivadavia and separated from the main public green space the city, the Forest, along Avenida 1, one of the busiest urban arteries.The house, which takes place at several levels, has a small porch as access, initiating the ramp leading to the entrance hall and turning 180o, is continued until whatever Curutchet's office and its services. The release of the ground floor allows for a garden, whose cornerstone is the tree that rises through a hole specifically designed to form part of the landscape from the terrace on the top floor.From the glazed hall, through a staircase that links the work vertically, you can access the public floor: dining room and double-height, the terrace garden, with its visual framing brise soleil to the surrounding green spaces and shaded noon, and the area of ​​services: kitchen and bathroom. Finally, the top floor contains the family bedrooms, one of them for marriage Curutchet, the other for his daughters, with their health.Today the house is rented to the heirs of Dr. Curutchet by the College of Architects of the Province of Buenos Aires (CAPB) and its doors are open to visitors who want to visit and direct contact with one of the emblematic works of the movement Argentina.Se modern is a significant work of modern architecture which provides essential input in the teaching of architectural design to any ideology.

Address: Calle 53 no 320. La Plata. Argentina

For group visits contact the following numbers:

+54 221 4218032 / 4822631

Email: info@capba.org.ar

Web site: http://www.capba.org.ar/curutchet/casa-curutchet-presentacion.htm #

Visit time: 45 minutes.

Visit Days

10 to 14:30 hs. days only.

During January, the house remains closed.

Input value

Argentine and foreign students: $ 5

General public $ 10 (Argentina) - $ 40 (foreign)

 The Astronomical Observatory of La Plata was one of the first inhabitants of the Paseo del Bosque and its creation was due to a law passed in October 1882.
History tells us that the news of the passage of the planet Venus across the solar disk in 1882 prompted the provincial government commissioned the house that year Gautier of Paris, a telescope and its auxiliary equipment.
La Plata Observatory is home to the School of Astronomy and Geophysics, the first research center devoted to Latin America, created in 1935.
or construction began in November 1883, a year after the Paris Astronomical Observatory astronomical instruments sent to the city of Bragado, Buenos Aires, to observe the transit of Venus in front of the Sun These instruments were purchased by the Province Buenos Aires to watch the event.
The first director was Francisco Beuf (Navy lieutenant of France and director of the Toulon Naval Observatory).
Some of the achievements of the observatory was the discovery of Comet Delavan and Nova Puppis star. Also makes a great work astrometric and meteorological data and records changes in latitudes over the years.


Visits to the public

On Friday at 19:00 between March and December events are held open to the general public by researchers of the institution, discussing topics of astronomy and geophysics. These talks are free and free, no reservation is required and the duration is approximately one hour.
The Friday after the talk, at 20:00 recoorido is performed which concludes with guided astronomical observation with a telescope Great Equatorial Gautier (If weather conditions permit). Free admission.
The observation is done on Saturdays if the weather conditions permit. The tour starts at 19:00 from May to September and at 20:00 during March, April, October, November and December. Free admission.

 Founded in 1888 in a neoclassical style and ornamentation Columbian, has more than 3 million objects in its collection, including large mammals highlights the Tertiary and Quaternary fossils and archaeological and ethnographic collections.
It has 21 permanent exhibition halls that present objects of geology, flora, fauna and cultures, mainly from South America.
This large oval Greco-Roman building is one of the key links of the cultural and scientific life of La Plata, but its location is part of the Paseo del Bosque. Visited annually by a million people, is the largest Natural History Museum of Spanish-speaking world and one of the most renowned for its collections and scientific work at the international level.Installed in 1884, this giant 135-meter oval of 60, was the brainchild of its founder, the Perito Moreno Pascasio Francisco, whose collections were the initial base of two million pieces currently classified and higher education for natural sciences.
In 1906 the Museum became part of the University. Since then is the largest Latin American naturalists, with 120 chairs in the departments of Anthropology, Botany, Geology, Ecology, Paleontology and Zoology.
The most important collections of fossil vertebrates are the Cenozoic, the archeology, ethnography and anthropology, entomology, the current American vertebrates, those of botany and ethnobotany, the current fossil invertebrates and mineralogy to those added by donations, important examples of pre-Columbian cultures and also the Egyptian room. Some collections, like those of vertebrate fossils are unique in the world.Today is a tiny fraction of them in the 23 halls of travel, but is designed to expand the existing structure through an underground ring 400 meters long and 10 meters wide.

In 1920, the Coliseum was renamed Olympus Politeama Podesta. The Colosseum responds to the type of Italian theater with horseshoe-shaped room, typical of the nineteenth century.
The initial manifestation of theatrical genre is installed in a large dilapidated house, built in wood, from Continental Exhibition of Buenos Aires, brought and armed to the founding of La Plata. There's banquet was held on November 1, 1882, becoming the first building erected in the City.
Some chroniclers of the time indicate that the first place of amusement "honest" of the working population was the Variety Theater located in a bar in Toulouse, which began operating in 1884. Others were improvised simultaneously proscenium and stables, where jugglers and minstrels companies participated in events that took place at the Teatro La Plata, located in 4 between 47 and 48. But in those days, in the Politeama May 25 located at 51 and 10, the character begins his adventures 88 Cucumber donkey accompanied by Pancho. Juan Jose "Pepe" Podesta was the one who gave birth to the famous clown who became the pioneer of theater River Plate.
On March 14, 1885 Apollo Theater opened on 54th Street between 4 and 5, had a rectangular room with capacity for 500 people.
It had been four years since the founding of La Plata and on the night of November 19, 1886 was inaugurated the first stage of the large scale suitable for lyric evenings. The theater opens with Olympus Politeama the presence of the Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, Carlos D 'Amico. In this role provides memorable artistic show, "The Barber of Seville" by Gioacchino Rossini, the famous tenor Roberto Stagno with soprano Gemma Belinccioni.
Guided tours of the Theatre Museum
The direction of the Teatro Coliseo Podesta made available to the public and especially students of all levels the service "tours" to the Theatre Museum in order to make known the history of the Cultural Heritage "cradle of our national theater rioplatense" . The visits consist of a tour unprecedented, not only for the spaces are already known, but also for those places closed to the public attending the shows and they contain the history and magic that owns the theater, such as the Stables, located below the floor of the pit.

http://www.coliseopodesta.laplata.gov.ar/

The Cultural Center Passage Dardo Rocha, commonly known as Dardo Rocha Passage, is located in the center of the city of La Plata, capital of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. More precisely in the street block bounded by 49 and 50, 6 and 7, whose main entrance is in front of the Plaza San Martin. This building is one of the most beautiful time of the founding of that city. In the beginning operated as railway station and this is a cultural center and operate several units of Municipio.Ubicado in the heart of the city, was originally the Station "November 19", the first Terminal Railroad west of La Plata . 

Today is the setting for major cultural events in the city.
Passage Dardo Rocha is one of the most beautiful buildings erected in the city. It was made by the engineer Pinaroli in the style of the great European stations and housed the great train station.Until 1906 he was station after it moved into the lane 1 and 44, then the building of Passage Dardo Rocha, who looked with pride to the then architectural space of the Legislature after First Board and finally San Martin, was empty.
In the 20's French style remodeled it to make a cultural center. Governor Luis Monteverde coined the idea of ​​a passage, "whose appearance is that of a sober French-style palace, to be earmarked for concert halls, small theaters and a large central hall exhibitions." The Department of Architecture of the Ministry of Public Works of the Province of Buenos Aires was responsible for remodeling and industrial exhibitions, picture galleries, works from the Museum of Fine Arts, concerts, festivals and even simultaneous games of chess.All these activities took place in that space, since 1930, was called Dardo Rocha.Then the temporary passage hosted by the Ministry of Social Action, 11 LS Radio Provincia, Bureau of Telegraph, Legal Advisory, Ministry of Labour and Historical Archive of the Province. In 1944 he established the Post Office until it moved to its new headquarters. To be empty again, the passage was taken to alternately fulfill those functions for which it was remodeled in 1928, when it acquired its French chateau look.Finally, after being home to many departments and of housing the Constitutional Convention in 1994, has entered the municipal property, with the completion of major renovation and equipment, has become the cultural center of La Plata.

This formidable cultural complex, home of the Opera and Ballet, as part of the old shaft and has a monumental prose theater, exhibition halls, concert halls and opera room with three levels of boxes with capacity for 2200 spectators.The Arts Center is located Teatro Argentino in La Plata heart, in the block bounded by the streets 9, 10 and 51 and 53 Avenues, where stood the traditional seat of monumental cultural complex.The construction of the theater began in 1980, obeying the La Plata project by architects Enrique Bars, Tomas Garcia, Roberto Germani, Ines Eubie, Alberto and Carlos Ucar Sbarra, who a year earlier had won the contest in question.Its floor area reaches 60,000 square meters and the geometry of its plant, with major and minor diagonals, evokes the city plan.The building is a multipurpose art scene, with attributes of a true arts complex.

It consists of the following functional areas:

Music Area: Hall Alberto Ginastera, Astor Piazzolla room, staging, rehearsal rooms, dressing rooms, workshops of production (scenery, props, costumes, etc..).

Area theater prose prose auditorium with capacity for 755 spectators and put adaptable to both classical and modern, stage, dressing rooms and production workshops, occupied by the Comedy of the Province of Buenos Aires.

Public Area: square of access, foyers, public halls, exhibition hall, terrace balcony, bars, cafes, and restaurant with 300 seats.

Electronic technical area: three rooms and the building as a whole with an electronic brain that coordinate the use of more advanced techniques. There will be open and closed circuit television, radio AM and FM use open and closed, using elements of electronic music and special effects shows.

Administrative area: offices of the directors of the various halls and administrative offices.

Cultural area: Department of Culture, specialized library, club, newspaper, tape libraries.

General Service Area: stewardship and armory, medical service, maintenance, and quartermaster, facilities, public telephone booths and covered parking for 250 cars.

In the center of the room stands the Teatro Alberto Ginastera, among the stalls and the three tiers of boxes and galleries, is able to accommodate 2200 spectators. The last room had a capacity for 1,500 people, and has an area of ​​16,000 square meters. All tests carried out ensure excellent acoustics and visibility.

On October 31, 2000, to 2000 spectators, the room was reopened Alberto Ginastera with the staging of the opera "Tosca" by Giacomo Puccini. This room has advanced stage machinery and a mobile platform that will make the scenic changes are made in a time negligible. This mobile stage is placed at 7.30 meters above the plaza level. This database has the ability to go behind the scenes, where a wagon could ride later, and thus access two different scenarios. This works from a sensitive hydraulic motor with a curtain, an engine room and a central computer.Meanwhile, the stage lighting fixtures consists of 500 different varieties - cut projectors, fresnell, followers - who were brought from Belgium and France. The machinery is controlled by light through art computer systems.The bronze chandelier, who chairs this room, weighs three tons, has 400 lamps and 25,000 watts, and is built in the likeness of which looked at the old Teatro Argentino.

The Chamber Astor Piazzolla dedicated to camera gear, was inaugurated on May 22, 2000. This room seats 300 people and included programming different cycles: Opera House, Great Artists International, National and Theater Ensembles Chamber. Also the foyer of the room temperature with exhibitions of paintings, sculptures, engravings and drawings by international artists.

In the Theatre Arts Center building is still missing Argentine Prose-room to be occupied by the Comedy of the Province of Buenos Aires, workshops and administrative sectors, the library and tape libraries, restaurant and two sets of bars.

Address: Avenida 51 between 9 and 10. Phone: (0221) 429-1700