Rosario

Rosario is the largest city of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located 300 km northwest of Buenos Aires, on the western shore of the Paraná River.
Rosario-Victoria bridgeOcean steamers reach the city via the Paraná River, which allows the existence of a 34-feet deep port. Exports include wheat, flour, hay, linseed and other vegetable oils, corn, sugar, lumber, meats, hides, and wool. Manufactures include flour, sugar, meat products, and other foodstuffs. A bridge running over the Paraná River to connect Rosario with the city of Victoria across the Paraná Delta was opened in 2003.
Along the Paraná River, Rosario is one of the fewest Argentine cities that cannot point to a particular individual as its founder. The city's patron is the Virgin of the Rosario (feast day October 7).

History of Rosario

The permanent settlement of Rosario began in 17th century. There was no clear foundation date. The first landowner was Captain Luis Romero de Pineda.
On 27 February 1812, General Manuel Belgrano hoistered the newly created Argentine flag on the shores of the Paraná, for the first time.
Until the 1850s Rosario was a small village. On 5 August 1852 Rosario was declared a city after a request by Justo José de Urquiza. By 1880, Rosario had become the first export outlet of Argentina; in 1887 it had about 50,000 inhabitants. It was even declared the federal capital in three occasions, but each time was rejected.
In the last 15 years of the century, the city doubled in population, in part owing to immigration. Demographic growth took its toll of bad living conditions, epidemics and labour explotation.
In 1946 Rosario supported Juan Perón's rise to power. In 1969 workers and students took the streets to protest against the dictatorship. During it, started in 1976, hundreds of citizens disappeared by the government.
In 1983 Argentina returned to democratic rule. Hyperinflation caused an economic collapse of the country in 1989. Under the Menem administration the situation became worse. In 1995 a large part of Rosario's population fell under the poverty line.
Since the recovery of the national economy that followed the 2001 collapse, Rosario's economic situation has improved.

Arquitecture

Ancient and contemporary places to see:

The Cathedral
The Cathedral Basilica Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary is a minor basilica and cathedral dedicated to the local Virgin of the Rosary, in the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina.
The basilica is located on the oldest part of the city, at the corner of Buenos Aires St. and Córdoba St., besides the Palacio de los Leones (that is, the town hall building), across the pedestrian path called Pasaje Juramento ("Oath Passage") that leads into the National Flag Memorial. The basilica faces Plaza 25 de Mayo (May 25th Square), also bordered by the Central Post Office.


Museum of Contemporary Art of Rosario
It is an annex to the Juan B. Castagnino Fine Arts Museum that is devoted to contemporary art, located in the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It’s located beside the Paraná River, at the end of Oroño Boulevard, on the Estanislao López Coast Avenue. It was opened to the public in 2004.
There are a number of museums in Rosario that tourists can visit such as the Provincial Museum of History; Museum of Decorative Art ‘Firma and Odilo Estevez’; Museum of the City; Museum of Natural History; Museum of Sacred Art, located in the basement of ‘El Círculo’ Theatre

The Planetarium
The planetariumRosario has a public astronomical complex consisting of an observatory (inaugurated in 1970) and a planetarium (1984). It is located in Urquiza Park.

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The Flag Memorial

The Flag Memorial, is a monument built near the shore of the Paraná River. It was inaugurated on 1957-06-20, the anniversary of the death of Manuel Belgrano, creator of the Argentinian flag.
The complex has a total area of about 10,000 square metres, and was built using stone from the Andes.
It has three parts: the Tower, 70 metres high, which commemorates the Revolution of May 1810 and houses Manuel Belgrano's crypt in its base; the Civic Courtyard, which symbolizes the effort of the organization of the state, and the Triumphal Propylaeum, representing the Nation as organized after the 1853 Constitution. Under the Propylaeum there is the Honour Room for the Flags of America.
The “Flag Memorial” is situated in Rosario and it is a historical building. It is in the “National Flag Park”, where the general Manuel Belgrano put the Argentina flag for the first time, in 27 de February of 1812, near the Parana River.
It was designed by Angel Guido and Alejandro Bustillo. It has a towel which is 70 m. high.
In this monument, there is the “Patio Civico”, the “Propileo” and in the first ground it is the “Sala de Honor de las Banderas de America”

Daiana Mengarelli, Lucía leunda Tosi, Jerónimo Serri y Matías Morales Raffe

Celebrities from Rosario

Rosario is well-known for its flourishing cultural activity in many art disciplines not only nationwide but worldwide. The city has given Argentina prominent characters in a variety of fields such as painting, music, acting, literature, philosophical and political thought and sports as well. Below you can see a small number of different representatives such as Antonio Berni; Roberto Fontanarrosa with his most popular character Inodoro Pereyra; Litto Nebbia; Juan Carlos Baglietto; Fito Paez; Darío Grandinetti; Ernesto Che Guevara; Alberto Olmedo; Luciana Aymar and Lionel Messi.

Roberto Fontanarrosa was born in 1944 in Rosario. He is a humourist writer. He made comics and jokes about charetes connected with argentina costumes.
The most important was “Inodoro Pereyra” and his dog “Mendieta”.
Roberto has written a lot of best sellers such as: La gansada, Los trenes matan a los autos, El mundo ha vivido equivocado, No se si he sido claro, Nada del otro mundo, El mayor de mis defectos, La mesa de los galanes.
Fontanarrosa has also helped the musical group, Les Luthiers.
His humour is based on the games of the word, on the fables ( the dog that talk), etc.
Or like others heroes such as Boogie the oiled or Harry the dirty.
“El chiste -ha dicho Fontanarrosa- generalmente apunta a un lado y pega en otro. Creo que
ese es un componente fundamental de la comicidad. Por lo menos, es lo que a mí me hace reír”.

Cindy De Paris, Eugenia Marasciuolo, Ligia Florio Pardo, Maximiliano Fechenbach y Ramiro Silvi

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