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El Monumento a Don Pedro de Mendoza, designed by sculptor Juan Carlos Oliva Navarro, was inaugurated at the northwestern corner of Parque Lezama on June 23, 1937, on the occasion of the quadricentennial anniversary of the death of the conqueror. t features a fountain with two outlets—symbolizing the Guadalquivir River and the Rio de la Plata, where Mendoza’s expedition started and ended. The bronze statue of Mendoza contrasts with a bas-relief representing a native image. Pedro de Mendoza y Luján (c. 1487 – 537), also known as Don Pedro de Mendoza, was a Spanish conquistador, soldier and explorer, and the first adelantado of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. Mendoza sailed up the Río in 1535 and founded Buenos Aires on February 2, 1536. Parque Lezama is sited on he spot where Buenos Aires is said to have been originally settled by Pedro de Mendoza in 1536. The lot was first purchased by Manuel Gallego y Valcárcel around 1790, then by a succession of English Argentines, the last of whom, Charles Ridgley Horne, sold the land to José Gregorio Lezama. Lezama commissioned Belgian landscape designer Charles Veerecke to beautify the grounds, but his widow old his estate to the city following his 1894 passing with the stipulation that it become a park in her late husband's name. The couple's Defensa Street mansion became the Argentine National Museum of History in 1897 and the Municipal Parks Director, the noted French Argentine urbanist Carlos Thays, remodeled the park with gates, a rose garden, a gazebo, a pergola, a sculpture garden and an esplanade in 1904.
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El Monumento a Don Pedro de Mendoza, designed by sculptor Juan Carlos Oliva Navarro, was inaugurated at the northwestern corner of Parque Lezama on June 23, 1937, on the occasion of the quadricentennial anniversary of the death of the conqueror. t features a fountain with two outlets—symbolizing the Guadalquivir River and the Rio de la Plata, where Mendoza’s expedition started and ended. The bronze statue of Mendoza contrasts with a bas-relief representing a native image. Pedro de Mendoza y Luján (c. 1487 – 537), also known as Don Pedro de Mendoza, was a Spanish conquistador, soldier and explorer, and the first adelantado of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. Mendoza sailed up the Río in 1535 and founded Buenos Aires on February 2, 1536. Parque Lezama is sited on he spot where Buenos Aires is said to have been originally settled by Pedro de Mendoza in 1536. The lot was first purchased by Manuel Gallego y Valcárcel around 1790, then by a succession of English Argentines, the last of whom, Charles Ridgley Horne, sold the land to José Gregorio Lezama. Lezama commissioned Belgian landscape designer Charles Veerecke to beautify the grounds, but his widow old his estate to the city following his 1894 passing with the stipulation that it become a park in her late husband's name. The couple's Defensa Street mansion became the Argentine National Museum of History in 1897 and the Municipal Parks Director, the noted French Argentine urbanist Carlos Thays, remodeled the park with gates, a rose garden, a gazebo, a pergola, a sculpture garden and an esplanade in 1904.