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76m-high miniature version of London's Big Ben was a donation from the city's British
community in 1916. You can enter inside the base of the tower, where there are a few
historical photos, but folks aren't allowed up the elevator.
Edificio Kavanagh NOTABLE BUILDING
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(Florida 1035) This handsome 120m art deco apartment building was the tallest skyscraper
in Latin America at the time of its construction in 1935.
Recoleta & Barrio Norte
BA's wealthiest citizens live and breathe in Recoleta, the city's most exclusive and fash-
ionable neighborhood. In the 1870s many upper-class porteños relocated here from San
Telmo during a yellow-fever epidemic. Today you can best see the wealth of this sumptu-
ous quarter on Av Alvear , where many of the old mansions (and newer international
boutiques) are located.
Full of lush parks, classy museums and French architecture, Recoleta is best known
for its Cementerio de la Recoleta. The Plaza Intendente Alvear hosts the city's most
popular crafts fair. A little further north is the 20m-high sculptural flower Floralis
Genérica , whose giant metal petals closed up at night until the gears broke.
Barrio Norte is a subneighborhood southwest of Recoleta, but the lines are blurred.
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