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'Che' Guevara's First Home
The apartment building at Entre Ríos 480, designed by Alejandro Bustillo, was where Ernesto Guevara Lynch and Celia de la Serna lived in 1928 after the birth of their son, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, popularly known as 'Che.' According to biographer Jon Anderson, young Ernesto's birth certificate was falsified (he was born more than a month before the official date of June 14), but this was certainly Che's first home, although briefly.
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Balneario La Florida
The widest beach is at Balneario La Florida, with services including umbrellas, showers, clothing check and outdoor bars. The sidewalk stops at La Florida and picks up again at its northern edge at Costa Alta, where there are more beaches and a pier with boats to the islands.
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Complejo Municipal Astronómico Educativo Rosario
Those interested in more distant environments can visit the planetarium at the Complejo Municipal Astronómico Educativo Rosario, which has shows from May to September. At Wednesday through to Sunday (clouds permitting), visitors can view the astral skies through its 2250mm refractor telescope and 4500mm reflecting telescope.
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Costanera Norte
In summer, it's the Costanera Norte, about 5km north of downtown, that attracts the crowds, as this stretch, along with the islands, offers the best places to swim. The stretch along the busy Av Carrasco, north of Av Puccio, has the most to offer, including the Rambla Cataluña, a tree-lined riverfront with small sandy beaches, shoreline cafés, bars, volleyball nets and tanning sunbathers.
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Estadio 'El Gigante de Arroyito'
Estadio 'El Gigante de Arroyito' is the home venue for Rosario Central, who play in blue and yellow stripes. Buy tickets from the stadiums or Rosario Central's club office.
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Estadio Parque Independencia
Estadio Parque Independencia is the base for Newell's Old Boys, a local soccer club with a long, proud history of producing great Argentine footballers.
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Monumento Nacional a la Bandera
Manuel Belgrano, who designed the Argentine flag, rests in a crypt beneath the colossal 78m-high Monumento Nacional a la Bandera , a chillingly nationalistic construction in pitiless stone. The monument's redeeming attributes are its location near the Paraná waterfront and the dizzying views of the river and surrounds from its tower, accessed by elevator.
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Monumento Nacional a la Bandera Museum
The Monumento Nacional a la Bandera Museum contains the original flag embroidered by Catalina de Vidal.
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Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario
Housed in a brightly painted grain silo on the waterfront, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario is the latest completed project of Rosario's impressive riverbank renewal. It features temporary exhibitions, mostly by young local artists, of varying quality, housed in small galleries spread over eight floors. There's a good view of the river islands from the mirador (viewpoint) at the top and an attractive café-bar, Davis, by the river.
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Museo Del Paraná y las Islas
Thanks to the romantic, engaging murals of local painter Raúl Domínguez, the Museo Del Paraná y las Islas, on the 1st floor of the waterfront Estación Fluvial, is worthwhile. Life on the islands of the Paraná so enchanted Domínguez that he created this small museum, filling it with photographs, artifacts, historical documents and his own paintings.
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Museo Histórico Provincial
The well-presented collection at the Museo Histórico Provincial features plenty of postindependence exhibits plus excellent displays on indigenous cultures from all over Latin America. There are also colonial and religious artifacts and the most ornate collection of mate (a kind of tea-like beverage) paraphernalia you're ever likely to see.
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Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes
Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes is one of the better galleries in this part of Argentina. It houses a permanent collection of European and Argentine fine art, with occasional contemporary exhibitions.
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Parque de España
Heading north of La Fluvial, you pass various cultural venues before reaching this park and its mausoleumlike edifice.
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Rosario Cathedral
Near the flag monument, Rosario Cathedral is a slender construction with a high single nave and dome decorated with stained-glass panels depicting the life of the Virgin. It's one of several attractive buildings around this square, which is effectively the center of old Rosario.
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