Argentina
Pampas
Buenos Aires

Plaza del Congreso

Plaza del Congreso is a public park facing the Argentine Congress in Buenos Aires. The plaza is part of a 3 hectare open space comprising three adjoining plazas to the east of the Congress building.
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  • Type: Park
  • Description: square in Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Also known as: “Congress Square” and “Congressional Plaza”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Palacio Barolo and Cine Gaumont.

Photo: Eugenio Hansen, OFS, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a landmark office building, located at 1370 , in the neighborhood of , , . It stood as Buenos Aires' tallest building for more than a decade until the construction of the in 1936.

Movie theater
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is a movie theater.

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The is an historical Art Nouveau style confitería in , , located in front of the of the National Congress and the Congressional Plaza, on the intersection of Callao and Rivadavia avenues in the barrio of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Monserrat and San Nicolas.

Suburb
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or Montserrat is a neighbourhood in the east of the Buenos Aires CBD. The district features some of the most important public buildings in Buenos Aires, including city hall, the city legislature, , the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires and…

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San Nicolás is one of the neighbourhoods of , , sharing most of the city and national government Neighborhood of Buenos Aires with neighboring Montserrat and home to much of the .

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is a barrio or neighborhood of , .

Plaza del Congreso

Latitude
-34.60968° or 34° 36′ 35″ south
Longitude
-58.39026° or 58° 23′ 25″ west
Elevation
32 metres (105 feet)
Open location code
48Q39JR5+4V
Open­Street­Map ID
way 17493172
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­park
Geo­Names ID
11151433
Wiki­data ID
Q2093879
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Ukrainian—“Plaza del Congreso” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Kongresuaren plaza (Buenos Aires)”
  • Basque: “Kongresuaren plaza”
  • Chinese: “国会广场”
  • Chinese: “國會廣場”
  • Chinese: “阿根廷国会广场”
  • Chinese: “阿根廷國會廣場”
  • Dutch: “Congressional Plaza”
  • Esperanto: “Placo de la Kongreso”
  • French: “plaza del Congreso”
  • French: “Plaza del Congreso”
  • German: “Plaza del Congreso”
  • Italian: “Plaza del Congreso”
  • Russian: “Площадь Конгресса”
  • Slovenian: “Kongresni trg, Buenos Aires”
  • Spanish: “Plaza Congreso”
  • Spanish: “Plaza de los Dos Congresos”
  • Spanish: “Plaza del Congreso”
  • Ukrainian: “Площа Конгресу”

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Notable Places Nearby

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Plaza del Congreso”. Photo: Beatrice Murch, CC BY 2.0.