Monument to Lisandro de la Torre - San Nicolás (Buenos Aires)
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Depicted bronze statue of Argentinian politician Lisandro de la Torre, a part of small memorial devoted to him, is located on Avenida Roque Sáenz Peña in San Nicolás district of Buenos Aires.
Waymark Code: WMQA0B
Location: Argentina
Date Posted: 01/19/2016
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Depicted bronze statue of Argentinian politician Lisandro de la Torre, a part of small memorial devoted to him, is located on Avenida Roque Sáenz Peña in San Nicolás district of Buenos Aires.
Lisandro de la Torre (6 December 1868 – 5 January 1939) was an Argentinian politician, born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe. De la Torre became a lawyer in 1890. His thesis about municipalities and communes, as well as other works of his, gave rise to the idea of municipal autonomy in Argentina, which was included in the Argentine Constitution in the 1994 reform. In 1898 he founded the newspaper La República ("The Republic") in Rosario. [wiki]
The de la Torre monument, designed by Carlos de la Cárcova, was unveiled on May 19th of 1973, in the last days of the dictatorship of Alejandro Lanusse. The almost 3 m tall bronze statue of rising politician, standing on a prismatic by grey granite covered pedestal, is in the back side "protected" by concrete slender 5.6 m high stele with two allegorical reliefs from gray granite on its back.