Children's Republic

This popular educational theme park of 53 hectares has all scale buildings: castles, palaces, oriental, public buildings, farm, wharf, the train that runs through the property and its stations.The magical and enchanting Children's Republic rose half a century ago in an area of ​​53 hectares located in the town of Manuel B. Gonnet, General Belgrano on the road, of La Plata, on land belonging to the old golf course "Swift Golf Club" designed to refrigerators English settlers in the region.Construction, which began in 1949 during the governorship of Domingo Mercante was made by the company and financed caprese provincial Investor through the Institute of the Province of Buenos Aires, in order to build the complex in record time. In 1600 construction workers who worked in the barracks housed within the same site.After two years of continuous work, was finally inaugurated on November 26, 1951 by then-president Juan Domingo Perón's Office. Since then, numerous contingents of students in our city, with the participation of schools in the province of Buenos Aires, choose Child Government authorities and discussed in the enclosures different topics of interest from his eyes girl.Considered the largest enterprise in Latin America child and first theme park in America, the Children's Republic was founded with a dual purpose: creative entertainment in a world of dreams and stories related to children and learn to exercise the rights andobligations that in any democratic country citizens have.Legend has it that in those years, the renowned Walt Disney visited the site and surprised by such beauty, was inspired to build what would later be little Disneyland in California City.The landscape of the Republic of Children presents hilly areas, landscaped green spaces, aged woods with a variety of species and a central depression that natural drainage of water make a lake with islands.The site is sectorized in three areas: urban, rural and sports. The urban area has trails, streets and buildings that are a unique central axis called the Civic Center buildings are concentrated housing the institutions of the Government of the Republic. Children being the recipients of this wonderful endeavor, the founding objective was to build the buildings to their level so they can experience the working of republican institutions, formed on democratic principles.Castles, Palaces oriental restaurants, public buildings and even the chapel where Mass is usually officiate, respect the law as well as furniture.The reduction according to 10 year olds has not taken charm or ability to enjoy the ride by adults but, by contrast, forces them to go back to your childhood.The equipment designer and executor of the work was led by architects Lima, Cuenca and Gallo who took inspiration from the tales of Andersen, the Brothers Grimm and the legends told by Tennyson and Mallory to plan and manage its construction style influencesmedieval European and Islamic.The Child City Bank building located opposite the main square, Plaza San Martin, is a replica of the Ducal Palace in Venice, near where stands another building, the Palace of Culture, inspired by the Taj Mahal in Agra, India , where is headquartered International Doll Museum.The chapel, dedicated to the Virgin of Lourdes, with large flat roofs Normans, side galleries and bell towers, the Government House with Gothic windows topped by a roof of imaginative ways by way of high towers and lookouts , close to Plaza San Martin.Around the Plaza de las Americas, located at the opposite end and connected by a pedestrian street lined with shops, the Legislature is inspired by the English Parliament, which houses the precincts of the Chamber of Deputies and Senators of the Government Children the Republic, made up of students from local schools.A large playground faces the Palace of Justice building his courtroom, offices and a small underground prison.It also has a radio studio "Radio República", the first children's radio in the country, with access to the gallery that separates the plaza with the surrounding space.Outside of this sector are located buildings such as the Stadium, the House of the Child, the buildings of the Navy, Army and Air Force.The Children's Republic, which since 1979 passed the provincial to the municipal level, is unique in the world is a child where he lives citizenship education, recreation, educational, cultural, social, scientific and sports.Address: Camino General Belgrano and 501, Gonnet.Hours: Monday to Sunday from 10 to 18.www.republica.laplata.gov.ar