3.28.2008

viernes


You don't have a city--or a country--without symbols, either.

Outside the Casa Rosada, Argentina's coat of arms: the rising sun for the rising nation, the clasped hands for fraternity and the union of provinces, the pike for power, the Phrygian cap for freedom, and laurels for glory:



At the intersection of Avenida 9 de Julio (as wide across as some villages) and Avenida Corrientes, the obelisk of Buenos Aires: