Plaza San Martín

Buenos Aires
The plaza in 1909 was the site for the inaugural of both the first premier hotel in Argentina (the Plaza) and of the new National Museum of Fine Arts, for which the glass and steel pavilion used at the 1889 World's Fair in Paris was enlisted; structurally inadequate, the pavilion was demolished in 1932, however. Plaza San Martín and its surroundings acquired their current physiognomy in 1936, when Charles Thays' son, Carlos León Thays, designed the esplanade surrounding the monument and when the 33-story Art Deco Kavanagh building was completed.

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Passion

Detail of the facade of Saldungaray village cemetery, designed by Francisco Salamone.

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Obelisco

Photographer: Horacio Coppola

1936

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Town Market

Mercado Municipal, A. Gonsalez Chavez town, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

ca. 1936-1940

Architect: Francisco Salamone (1897-1959)

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Sub-heavy Cruiser

Almirante Braun cruiser, Argentine Navy

The 6,800-ton Veinticinco de Mayo and Almirante Braun design was derived from the Italian Trento class. The ships were smaller than the original, and carried significantly less armour. They had a clean and simple design, with a length-width ratio of almost 10:1. Three twin turrets were mounted with an elevation of 46 degrees for firing.
The main 190 mm (7.5 inch) guns were designed especially for this class for greater stability (the Trento-class carried 203 mm (8 inch) guns). This could have been a quite powerful gun, but no documents about its characteristics are available in Italian or Argentine archives. The guns had single mounts to simplify construction, and could fire a 90 kg (200 lb) shell up to 23 km (30,000 yards). Despite this reduction in size and weight, they were still too heavy, so the number of turrets were reduced from four to three.
The secondary armament was also a new design, similar to standard 100–102 mm guns of the time. It consisted of twelve 102 mm (4 inch) DP guns, firing a 13.5 kg (30 lb) shell, all in twin mounts. This was an unusual arrangement for Italian heavy cruisers, which generally carried only four to eight of these weapons. However to counter the additional weight, gun shields were removed, which adversely affected their operability in bad weather conditions.
Unusually, the torpedo tubes were in fixed mounts amidships firing abeam, which caused problems in aiming effectively.

Neither vessel played a role in WWII or any other military conflict. Both were decommissioned in 1961.

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Fountain & Tower

La plaza de la Laprida, Buenos Aires
Architect: Francisco Salamone
1930s

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Justicialista

Diesel locomotive built in 1951 (yes, the date is correct: Nineteen Fifty-One) by FADEL, Argentina for 400-km Constitución - Mar del Plata route. Powewred by two 735hp Sulzer diesel engines.

Swedish Gun

Bofors 75 mm L40 M1935 gun

For decades it was the field weapon of the Ejército Argentino (Argentine Army)