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Manuel Máximo Alberti (28 May 1763 – 31 January 1811) was a priest from
Buenos Aires, when the city was part of the
Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. He had a curacy at
Maldonado, Uruguay during the
British invasions of the Río de la Plata, and returned to Buenos Aires in time to take part in the
May Revolution of 1810. He was chosen as one of the seven members of the
Primera Junta, which is considered the first national government of Argentina. He supported most of the proposals of
Mariano Moreno and worked at the
Gazeta de Buenos Ayres newspaper. The internal disputes of the Junta had a negative effect on his health, and he died of a heart attack in 1811.
Manuel Alberti was born in Buenos Aires on 28 May 1763 to Antonio Alberti and Juana Agustina Marín. He was baptized on the following 1 June at the Concepción parish; his godparents were Juan Javier Dogan and Isabel de Soria y Santa Cruz. He had three brothers, Isidoro, Manuel Silvestre and Félix, and three sisters, Casimira, Juana María and María Clotilde. The Alberti family became benefactor of the House of Spiritual Works of Buenos Aires by donating them a land plot so it could move its headquarters.
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Located in the neighbourhood of La Boca, Caminito is a street museum and a traditional alley which acquired cultural significance because it inspired the music for the famous tango "Caminito". Argentine artist Benito Quinquela Martín who lived nearby, painstakingly prepared the walls facing the abandoned street, applying pastel colors and.
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Recoleta is a downtown residential
neighborhood in the city of
Autonomous City of Buenos Aires,
Argentina; it is an area of great historical and architectural interest, due, particularly to the
Recoleta Cemetery located there. It is also an important tourist destination and cultural center of the city.
It is also considered one of the more affluent neighborhoods, and the cost per square meter/foot of real estate is one of the highest in the city.
The Recoleta neighborhood is distinguished by its great cultural spaces. In addition to historical monuments, it is home to the National Fine Arts Museum or Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, the National Library of Argentina, the Recoleta Cultural Center, and other exhibition venues.
The Recoleta Cemetery is one of the main tourist attractions in the neighborhood. It was designed by the French architect, Prosper Catelin, at the request of President Bernardino Rivadavia, and was dedicated in 1822.
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