Buenos Aires & Environs:
Photo Gallery 6
La Plata
Photos by Adam Jones
La Plata, in the province of Buenos Aires, is a pleasant university town
an hour's train ride southeast of the capital
I.
"Accepted here ... but not for cigarettes,
[because] the distributors won't take them"
In the face of Argentina's all-consuming fiscal crisis,
provincial governors began printing their own currencies; these notes
remained legal tender at the time of my visit, though there were plans
to phase them out.
II.
Catedral de La Plata (1)
South America's largest cathedral, designed
(spectacularly, it must be said) by Pedro Benoit.
III.
Catedral de La Plata (2)
IV.
In the Paseo del Bosque
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