{"id":11380,"date":"2011-01-15T23:30:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T07:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/11380"},"modified":"2011-01-15T23:30:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T07:30:22","slug":"plaza-del-congreso-buenos-aires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/11380","title":{"rendered":"Plaza del Congreso, Buenos Aires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the west end of Avenida de Mayo, in front of the Palacio del Congreso, lies the Plaza del Congreso .\u00a0 Within the Plaza is Monumento a los Dos Congresos (Monument of the Two Congresses) honoring the Congress of 1810 in Buenos Aires and the Congress of 1816 in Tucum\u00ed\u00a1n which lead to the independence of Argentina .\u00a0 Fountains and sculptures fill the Plaza and a temporary nativity scene of colossal scale stands at the east end (this was, after all,\u00a0just after\u00c2\u00a0Christmas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Plaza-del-Congreso-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11394\" title=\"Plaza del Congreso - 1\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Plaza-del-Congreso-1.jpg\" alt=\"Plaza del Congreso - 1\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Plaza del Congreso &#8211; 1<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Plaza del Congreso &#8211; 1 (Buenos Aires, Argentina), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 03 Jan 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Plaza-del-Congreso-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11396\" title=\"Plaza del Congreso - 2\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Plaza-del-Congreso-2.jpg\" alt=\"Plaza del Congreso - 2\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Plaza del Congreso &#8211; 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Plaza del Congreso -\u00c2\u00a02 (Buenos Aires, Argentina), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 03 Jan 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Palacio-del-Congreso-Monumento-a-los-Dos-Congresos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11397\" title=\"Monumento a los Dos Congresos\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Palacio-del-Congreso-Monumento-a-los-Dos-Congresos.jpg\" alt=\"Monumento a los Dos Congresos\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Monumento a los Dos Congresos<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Monumento a los Dos Congresos (Buenos Aires, Argentina), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 03 Jan 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Congress-Nativity-Scene.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11399\" title=\"Plaza del Congreso Nativity Scene\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Congress-Nativity-Scene.jpg\" alt=\"Plaza del Congreso Nativity Scene\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Plaza del Congreso Nativity Scene<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Plaza del Congreso\u00c2\u00a0Nativity Scene\u00c2\u00a0(Buenos Aires, Argentina), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 03 Jan 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the west end of Avenida de Mayo, in front of the Palacio del Congreso, lies the Plaza del Congreso.  Within the Plaza is Monumento a los Dos Congresos (Monument of the Two Congresses) honoring the Congress of 1810 in Buenos Aires and the Congress of 1816 in Tucum\u00ed\u00a1n which lead to the independence of Argentina.  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