El Cabildo de Buenos Aires

National Historical museum of the Town hall and the Revolution of May guided Visits: Friday to 15,30 (Gratuitous) Saturdays and Sundays to 12,30 ($3), 14 (Gratuitous) and 15 ($3).

The town hall was the legal foundation of all city, as they established the Laws of Indians. For that reason, Don Juan de Garay, the morning of the 11 of June of 1580, day of San Bernabé, designates town hall and subscribes the original act of the city of the Trinidad and Puerto of Santa Maria of Buenos Aires. “Town hall” comes from capitulum, that is to say, “at the top”. These typically Spanish institutions are revitalized when arriving at America. They were constituted by a body colegiado with administrative, legislative, judicial functions, of police and military service; their members were chosen annually between the neighbors, by majority of votes; they met ordinarily in closed town halls and when the subjects required it by their importance, in open town halls. The Town hall of Buenos Aires stood out by its opened town halls, where decisions were taken that escaped to their institutional competition, but which they were foundation of the Argentine emancipation.

The Museum the Museum has like seat the building where the Town hall of the city of the Trinidad and Puerto of Santa Maria of Buenos Aires worked, capital of the Virreinato of the River of the Silver as of 1776. Declared National Historical Monument in 1933, at the moment it occupies he himself lot that assigned to Don Juan de Garay when founding the city to him on 1580. The building and its collections conform an only patrimony, that evokes those historical and political facts that they forged our identity like country: the institutional town halls and their functions, reconquer and defense of the city during the English invasions in 1806-1807, the Revolution of May and the First Governing body in 1810.