Qualla: La Plata https://qualla.com/la-plata en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: La Plata https://qualla.com/la-plata La Plata: Introduction https://qualla.com/la-plata/ Most cities grow. La Plata was drawn. When Buenos Aires became Argentina's federal capital in 1880, the province of the same name suddenly had no seat of government, so it decided to conjure one out of open pampa. On November 19, 1882, Governor Dardo Rocha laid the foundation stone of a city that did not yet exist, and a photographer named Tomas Bradley Sutton recorded its rise from empty fields. The urban planner Pedro Benoit drew it as a rationalist's dream: a perfect square, a central park, and great diagonal avenues cutting across an unbroken grid. The result earned La Plata its nickname, la ciudad de las diagonales, the City of Diagonals.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/y/c/la-plata-wp/69yc-la-plata-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full La Plata: Geometry and Secret Signs https://qualla.com/la-plata/ Benoit's design is almost obsessive in its order. The city is a square crossed by two grand diagonals running corner to corner, with shorter diagonals threading the blocks. Every street is numbered, and the same six-by-six block module repeats across the plan, a small park or pla...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/y/c/la-plata-wp/69yc-la-plata-geometry-and-secret-signs.mp3 0:06 2 full La Plata: A Capital Built to Order https://qualla.com/la-plata/ Because the city was created whole, its grandest buildings were commissioned through international competitions, and the winners came from across Europe: Italians designed the Governor's Palace, Germans the City Hall, and so on, each landmark a different national hand. La Plata s...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/y/c/la-plata-wp/69yc-la-plata-a-capital-built-to-order.mp3 0:06 3 full La Plata: City of Linden Trees and Learning https://qualla.com/la-plata/ La Plata is also la ciudad de los tilos, the city of linden trees, named for the ranks of lindens shading its streets and squares, joined by ash, plane, sweetgum and tulip trees imported from the Northern Hemisphere. Greenery is everywhere, anchored by the vast Paseo del Bosque, ...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/y/c/la-plata-wp/69yc-la-plata-beauty-and-wounds.mp3 0:06 5 full La Plata: The Living City https://qualla.com/la-plata/ For all its planned perfection, La Plata pulses with ordinary passion, and nowhere louder than in football. The city is split between two first-division clubs: Estudiantes de La Plata, the most decorated, winners of multiple Copa Libertadores titles and the 1968 Intercontinental ...

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