Cabildo of Buenos Aires

Cabildo of Buenos Aires
Cabildo de Buenos Aires
The east façade opposite Plaza de Mayo
Map
Former namesCabildo de la ciudad de la Trinidad y Puerto de Santa María de Buenos Aires
General information
TypeHistoric museum
Architectural styleBaroque
AddressBolívar 65
Town or cityBuenos Aires
CountryArgentina
Coordinates34°36′32″S 58°22′25″W / 34.60889°S 58.37361°W / -34.60889; -58.37361
Completed1748[1]
Renovated1880,[2] 1940[2]
Demolished1889, 1931[3]
OwnerGovernment of Argentina
Design and construction
Architect(s)
  • Andrea Bianchi
    (original building, 1748)[1]
  • Pedro Benoit
    (refurbishment, 1879)[4]
  • Mario Buschiazzo
    (reconstruction, 1940)[2][4]
Website
cabildonacional.cultura.gob.ar
Designated1933

The Cabildo of Buenos Aires (Spanish: Cabildo de Buenos Aires) is the public building in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, that was used as a seat of the town council during the colonial era and the government house of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.[5]

The building was also seat of other institutions such as the Royal Audience of Buenos Aires, the highest court for appeal of second instance in the territory,[6] operated from April 6, 1661 to January 23, 1812, when it was replaced by an Appeals Chamber.[7] On September 13, 1810, the Primera Junta created the Public Library of Buenos Aires, being the Cabildo its first location for two years.[8] Nevertheless the institution that worked for longer in that building was the Buenos Aires prison, from 1608 to 1877, when their prisoners were transferred to the missing national penitentiary of Las Heras Street, when it was inaugurated.[9]

The Cabildo was declared National Historic Monument in 1933[10] and was opened to public as a museum in 1938.[1]

  1. ^ a b c El Cabildo on GCBA
  2. ^ a b c Historia del Cabildo de Buenos Aires on Historia y Biografías
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference plazamayo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b Transformaciones del Cabildo by Mabel Crego on Barriada, 5 Jun 2011
  5. ^ Engel, Emily (2020-03-23). Pictured Politics: Visualizing Colonial History in South American Portrait Collections. University of Texas Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-4773-2059-4.
  6. ^ La Audiencia de Buenos Aires y la Gobernación del Tucumán: tensiones entre políticas provinciales y regionales, 1660-1674 on Revista Historia del Derecho no. 60
  7. ^ El Museo on Cabildo website
  8. ^ Biblioteca Nacional Argentina on Ver Buenos Aires
  9. ^ El Cabildo, la primera cárcel at the SPF
  10. ^ Ley 11,688: "Declárase monumento histórico nacional al Cabildo de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.", May 30, 1933