La Plata City

Departure from the hotel towards la Plata, capital city of Buenos aires province, located 50km away from downtown Buenos Aires. This city, founded in 1882 by dardo Rocha, is curiously the only one in Argentina that raised up according to a previous urban planning. This was due to the necessity of giving he province its own capital city, as the city of buenos aires had been so far the capital of the country and the province, at the same time.
Consequently, its layout was previously planned taking as model some European cities and some of the urban theories ruling in Europe. You will see its main buildings: the City Hall, the legislative Place, the Government House, the national Observatory, the Dardo Rocha alley, the National University of la plata and you will visit the Cathedral, built in an imposing French Neolithic style, whose high light it the vitreous. The Cathedral is situated in front of Moreno Square, the main square, where the foundation stone was set in 1882. Afterwards you will visit the Natural Science Museum that owns one of the most important paleontologist collection in the world, with great quantity of prehistoric mammal fossils. You will start you 3ay back to Buenos Aires, passing by Pereyura irola Park, a splendid forest where there is a Wild Animal Breeding station. Return to hotel
Saturday AM or Wednesday & Friday PM