page_title: Argentina Bicentennial
section_title: Buenos Aires
hierarchical_section_title: Argentina Bicentennial / Main events / Buenos Aires
caption_attribution_description: English: Cabildo. Celebrating the Argentine Bicentennial.
context_page_description: The Argentina Bicentennial was a series of ceremonies, festivals, and observances celebrated on May 25, 2010 and throughout the year. They commemorated the 200th anniversary of the May Revolution, a sequence of historical events that led to the Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros being ousted from office and replaced with the Primera Junta, the first national government.
  Bicentennial celebrations began on Friday, May 21 in Buenos Aires, with millions of people in attendance, making them the biggest outdoor festivities Argentina had seen since it celebrated its return to democratic rule after seven years of military dictatorship in 1983.
context_section_description: The 9 de Julio Avenue was closed to the traffic between Corrientes and Belgrano avenues during the festivity days, and was used to host the main celebrations. Celebrations started on May 21, with a concert of Argentine rock bands. Litto Nebbia acted as host, and performers included Fito Páez and León Gieco. Temporary installations on the avenue were complemented by the earlier opening of the interactive National Bicentennial House, in the Recoleta section of the city, and of the initial phase of the Bicentennial Cultural Center, in the former Buenos Aires Central Post Office; the cultural center was scheduled to be completed in 2012.
  A number of military parades of modern and historical regiments and units, including the Regiment of Patricians and the Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers, were staged on May 22. They were followed by parades representing the provinces of Argentina and their local cultures; for instance, Jujuy included llamas and Córdoba included a traditional cuarteto band. In the night there was a concert of Latin American music, hosted by León Gieco and with the presence of Uruguayan Jaime Roos, Brazilian Gilberto Gil, Víctor Heredia, Gustavo Santaolalla, Colombian Totó la Momposina, Mundo Alas, and Cuban Pablo Milanés.
  Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, Sebastián Piñera of Chile, José Mujica of Uruguay, Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, Rafael Correa of Ecuador, Fernando Lugo of Paraguay, and Evo Morales of Bolivia, and former presidents Manuel Zelaya of Honduras and Martín Torrijos of Panama arrived in Buenos Aires for the closing parade.
caption: The Buenos Aires Cabildo, site of the May 25, 1810 proclamation, is festooned in lights for the bicentennial.
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