La Plata is the capital of Buenos Aires Province, southeast of the city of Buenos Aires. It was founded in the 1880s as a planned city, laid out on a grid crossed by diagonal avenues, with a square every few blocks.
The city is home to the National University of La Plata, one of the largest in the country, and to many provincial government offices, so a lot of visitors come for study, work or family. Its landmarks include the neo-Gothic cathedral on Plaza Moreno, the Natural Sciences Museum in the Paseo del Bosque park and the city's two big football clubs, Estudiantes and Gimnasia.




