Around and about South America . ar inthe War of Independence, and the other a sort of pyramid ofliberty, made of brick and stucco, and erected in remem-brance of the heroes of the same conflict. The latter is a verytawdry, cheap-looking affair, without any redeeming archi-tectural features. A bronze monument was ordered, as farback as 1826, to replace this one, but has not yet made its ap-pearance. On the north side of this plaza are the cathedral,the archbishops palace, and the opera-house. The cathedralhas a portico, with a symbolical pediment, and a blue tile-covered cupola. On the facade
Around and about South America . ar inthe War of Independence, and the other a sort of pyramid ofliberty, made of brick and stucco, and erected in remem-brance of the heroes of the same conflict. The latter is a verytawdry, cheap-looking affair, without any redeeming archi-tectural features. A bronze monument was ordered, as farback as 1826, to replace this one, but has not yet made its ap-pearance. On the north side of this plaza are the cathedral,the archbishops palace, and the opera-house. The cathedralhas a portico, with a symbolical pediment, and a blue tile-covered cupola. On the facade are huge bosses of white andgold wood-work, displaying ecclesiastical crooks, mitres,scarfs, and keys. The interior contains nothing extraordi-nary, save a great marble and bronze monument in one ofthe chapels, erected in 1880 to the memory of General SanMartin. It is in the form of a bronze sarcophagus, rearedupon a lofty marble pedestal of four different colors. Theopera-house exteriorly is not imposing, while interiorly it is. TEE METROPOLIS OF TEE RIVER PLATE. 155 very like that at Montevideo. On the east side of the Vic-toria Plaza is a huge two-story and Mansard-roof building—about the only really handsome building in Buenos Ayres—which contains in one wing the government-house, in theother the post-office, while in the center is the grand entranceto the custom-house. It is wholly a modern style of the south side is Congress Hall, and the rest of this streetis filled with very inferior one and two story shops, whichspoil the general effect of the square. On the remainingside, the west, are the Town Hall and police Town Hall has rather a fine lofty clock-tower; of thepolice headquarters nothing favorable can be said. Whilecriticising so harshly the public buildings of so large andwealthy a city, I ought to mention that while Buenos Ayresis to remain the capital of the nation, the capital of the prov-ince of the same name has been removed to L
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