Avenida de Mayo

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Avenida de Mayo (Spanish: May Avenue), is located in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina. This avenue connects Plaza de Mayo with Plaza de los Dos Congresos, which extends 1,500 metres in a west-east direction before merging into the Rivadavia Avenue.

As well as the Plaza de Mayo, the avenue was named after the 1810 May Revolution, which concentrated crowds at the Plaza, though the right wing of the Buenos Aires Cabildo stood on the current position of the avenue.

Avenida de Mayo was inspired by Madrid's Gran Vía. The avenue is often compared with those of Madrid, Barcelona and Paris due of its sophisticated buildings of art Nouveau, neoclassic and eclectic styles.

The decree 437/97 of the National Executive Branch declared the Avenue a national historic site in 1997. As a result the aesthetics of the buildings could not be changed, including billboards and marquees. Any modifications have to be approved by the National Commission of Monuments and Historic Sites (Comisión Nacional de Monumentos y Lugares Históricos).

Buenos Aires Cabildo, start point of the Avenue	North-Eastern corner at Perú street	View of the eastern side of the Avenue and the [[Casa Rosada\|government House	Perú underground station.
View to the government house	Café Tortoni	ANMAT building	View from Nueve de Julio Avenue
Waterfont at Nueve de Julio Avenue	Old-style light at Nueve de Julio Avenue	Avenida de Mayo near Nueve de Julio Avenue	The Palacio Barolo on Avenida de Mayo was at one time the tallest building in the city
Chile Hotel	Castelar Hotel	early 1910s La Inmobiliaria	Rodin's Thinker, at Congress' Park
Iberia caffé bar	Avenida Theatre	36 Billares caffé bar	Pasaje Urquiza Anchorena