Ex Embajada De Argentina En Chile
The Former Embassy of Argentina in Chile is a building located at 41 Vicuña Mackenna Avenue, near the Plaza Baquedano, in downtown Santiago, Chile, housing the General Consulate of Argentina in Santiago. It was declared as a List of National Monuments of Chile, National Monument of Chile on July 24, 2003, within the category of Historic Monuments. History On May 25, 1912, following a series of disagreements between Chile and Argentina, which concluded peacefully with the Abrazo del Estrecho (1899) and the Pacts of May, Pactos de Mayo (1902), the Chilean government granted a plot of land to Argentina as an act of reciprocity. It is located on Avenida Vicuña Mackenna, known then as ''Camino de Cintura''. Reciprocally, on September 18 of that year, Argentina granted to Chile a palace on Esmeralda Street in Buenos Aires. The location of the property was at what was then the edge of the city, and the property was close to the old Hospital de San Borja and the former Pirque railwa ...
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