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Diario Hoy en la Noticia (in English, "the newspaper of today's news") was an Argentine newspaper that was published in the city of La Plata, in Buenos Aires Province.It was founded on 10 December 1993, by the family of the Secretary General of the Union of Workers and Minors of Education and Minority (SOEME), [2] and union leader of the General Confederation of Labor, Antonio Balcedo, The ...
The Juan Carmelo Zerillo Stadium, popularly known as El Bosque (Spanish for "The Forest", due to its location in a big city park of the same name), is a football stadium located in the city of La Plata, Argentina. It is located on 60th Avenue and its intersection with 118th Street.
A year following the establishment of the city of La Plata as the capital of the Province of Buenos Aires, four local intellectuals, Manuel Lainez, Arturo Ugalde, Martín Biedma and Julio Botet formed a partnership with the purpose of giving the new town (the first planned city in Argentina and South America) a daily newspaper.
The idea of the project began in 1947 when Governor Domingo Mercante expropriated the property located at the junction of Roads 32 and 25 and formed the La Plata Sports Complex. In 1972, La Plata was to be a candidate to host matches in the 1978 FIFA World Cup. The Government of Argentina called for project competitive bids to construct a ...
For its part, Gimnasia de La Plata, founded in 1887, has not obtained titles in the professional era, but it is a traditional First Division club. The Estadio Ciudad de La Plata, also known as the "Estadio Único", opened on 7 June 2003, as one of the most modern football stadiums in Latin America. Various other construction and renovation ...
Soon after, irregular suburbs began to appear outside the designed limits of La Plata. These suburbs would go on to become an integral part of La Plata Partido municipality. Neighboring Berisso and Ensenada, on the Río de la Plata shore, acted from then on as natural harbors for the new capital city of the Province, and gradually they also ...
La Plata is a partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, some 60 kilometres (37 mi) southeast of the city of Buenos Aires. It has an area of 926 km 2 (358 sq mi), and a population of 654,324 (2010 census [ INDEC ] ).
The Clásico Platense (La Plata derby) is the nickname given to the match between La Plata's two main football teams: Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata and Estudiantes de La Plata. The first official derby took place as part of the Primera División season on 27 August 1916.