| What makes it historical? |
Alcalde Manuel de Frías proposed a new cabildo to be cabuilt here on the Plaza de Mayo on March 3, 1608, and after two years, with the funding of taxes on the Port of Buenos Aires, the cabildo opened for business, only to be found too small almost immediately! Nonetheless, it stayed in use for 62 years until it fell mostly to ruin, and plans were made to completely redo it!
The local government sat on it for 43 years, suspended construction in 1728, restarted in 1731, suspended again due to lack of funds, then built in stages all the way until the May Revolution of 1810! Never truly complete to the standards of the original planners, the Cabildo got a tower in 1880, which was demolished nine years later to make room for the Avenida de Mayo, and three more of its arches got destroyed to make room for Julio A. Roca Avenue! Today, the remains of the Cabildo make up the National Museum of the Cabildo and the May Revolution! |
