The Flag Memorial by Octavio Tirelli

The only place in Rosario that you can’t miss is the Flag Memorial. The Flag Memorial is a symbol for Rosario, a landmark. It was opened to the public on 20 of July 1957. It is located on Santa Fe Street and on the spot where General Manuel Belgrano hoisted the national flag for the first time.

The architects that made posible this national treasure were Alejandro Bustillo and Ángel Francisco Guido. And the sculptors that made the beautiful sculptures that surround it are Alfredo Bigatti, and José Fioravanti.The flag memorial itself is not the only attraction, since it contains the hall of flags, the tower, a fountain in the back and a fire that never goes out.

The work as a whole symbolizes the country's ship sailing the seas of eternity in search of a glorious destiny. Through the different groups of sculptures the economic, spiritual, historical and geographical values of our nation are represented.

The Flag Memorial is a great place to visit because it has wonderful views, it is surrounded by parks and it is located by the Parana River. In the same area, near the Flag Memorial are also located the City Hall and the Cathedral.

So, if you are planning a picnic or looking for the most beautiful place in Rosario, the Flag Memorial is the place you are looking for.

The Paraná River by Santiago Gutiérrez

The Paraná River is located on the East side of the city. It is second in length with 4,880 kilometers and is one of the most important rivers of Argentina and the world, for this reason it is an excellent choice for vacation or travel when visiting the City of Rosario.

There are a lot of beautiful places on its banks, like the Florida beaches which are located at the Northern end of the city, and are a popular spot for sunbathing, fishing, wind surfing, kayaking, people watching and getting something to eat or drink at the bars and cafes.

Rosario's waterfront boasts numerous islands, with more beaches, some camping areas, boating facilities, they all are places to enjoy nature the sun, the water.

The Rosario-Victoria bridge, 59,4 kilometers long, connects Rosario and Victoria in the Santa Fe Province. Thanks to the bridge, tourism in the region has also benefited from easier transportation.

So, if you want to travel and really enjoy it, come to visit the Paraná River and all the sites and services offered by the city of Rosario.

Rosario-Victoria Bridge by Camila Espejo

In Rosario there are lots of beautiful places you can visit, such as the Rosario- Victoria Bridge, which joins the Argentine cities of Rosario, province of Santa Fe, and Victoria, province of Entre Rios. It’s composed by several bridges, channels and earth-filled sections. This bridge crosses the main course of the Paraná River and touches down on several islands of the Paraná Delta on this way. 

The project began in 1998 but it was repeatedly interrupted due to a lack of funding from the National and the Provincial Governments. The public transit access to the bridge was opened on May 20th, 2003. The project was executed by a private company - Puentes del Litoral - which was granted subsidies from the Nacional Government and the Provincial Governments of Santa Fe and Entre Rios.

The opening of this bridge was very important because until then, the only road link between the two provinces was the Hernandarias Underwater Tunnel, which joins the cities of Santa Fe and Paraná.

Last year there was a 10 km marathon on the bridge and it was a very nice experience for the runners because they had a wonderful view while they were running and it was different from all the other marathons. 

The real name of the bridge is Nuestra Señora del Rosario. It’s a beautiful place, because from there you can see the river and the islands; it also makes it easier to go from Rosario to Victoria, which is a beautiful city, full of things to do, such as going to the Thermal Spa or the Casino.

City Parks by Clara Széliga

Rosario is a big city on the South - East of the Province of Santa Fe on the right - hand shore of the Paraná River. Rosario has several parks and green spaces where the people can relax and enjoy being in contact with nature in the city. The parks you can visit in the city are Urquiza Park, Spanish Park, the Flag National Park, Alem Park and Independence Park.

The Urquiza Park is located on the banks of the Parana River, from which you have a view of the islands. The park is contains a planetarium, observatory and an experimental science museum. This group of buildings together show a comet-like structure. There is also an amphitheater for music performances.

Other parks of the city are the Spanish Park, located on Sarmiento St. and the Paraná River; the Flag National Park, located in front of the Flag Memorial; and the Alem Park, located in the North–East of the city, which has a public swimming pool complex, a cultural center and a camping site, opposite the Rosario Central Stadium.

But the most traditional park in Rosario is the Independence Park, surrounded by the following streets: Oroño, 27 de Febrero, Ovidio Lagos and Pellegrini. Visitors can go for a boat ride on the lake, or walk the trails and bridges that surround it. At night the lake is transformed into a show of music, lights and colors with the dancing waters located in the center of the lake and surprising all the tourists who visit the city.

In the Independence Park you can also see an area called the Rose Garden, where there are roses of all colors, the venue of the Rural Association, the Racetrack, the Newell’s Old Boys Stadium and the dovecote.
Rosario is a city that has something to offer to everyone. Whether you want to spend your time seeing the architecture that characterizes the city or simply relaxing, Rosario is a great city for a weekend vacation with your family.

Independence Park

Urquiza Park

Spain Park

Alem Park

The National Park to the Flag

The Museums by Julieta López

If you want to visit a museum, you have different options. The Museum of Fine Arts Juan B. Castagnino is the most important art center in the country, it is located in the area of Independence Park. And the other museum important in the city is the Rosario Contemporary Art Museum (MACRO), it’s an annex of the Museum of Fine Arts Juan B. Castagnino. It is located across the Parana River.

The Museum of Fine Arts was opened to the public on December 7, 1937.The building was donated to the city by Rosa Tiscornia de Castagnino, in memory of his son, Juan Bautista, a noted art collector from the early twentieth century and the first member of the City Hall Commission of Fine Arts in Rosario. His collection has approximately 3000 works, a heritage took over 80 years to build.

The collection brings together an important number of paintings, sculptures and a series of emblematic engravings of Argentine art of the nineteenth and twentieth century European and valuable pieces from different periods. It specializes in art and provides a valuable and varied bibliography, which consists of books, slides, videos, CDs and brochures.

The Rosario Contemporary Art Museum is an annex of the Museum of Fine Arts Juan B. Castagnino. Its history dates back to years ago when Antorchas Foundation offered a donation of 27 works selected by the current Director of Malba, Marcelo Pacheco.

Its structure is that of an old silo. It is located across the Parana River, and it was designed by Ermete Lorenzi, one of the most important local architects of the twentieth century. The facade was painted on the basis of a project chosen by the national competition in 2003, owned by the local architect Cynthia Prieto.

The museum contains the most important Argentine contemporary art collection. It also includes contemporary art work of various artists who led the artistic developments of the twentieth century.

The City Museum, the Museum of Sciences and the Memorial Museum, among others, are some of the many that the city offers. If you want to visit them you should call the tourist information centers to ask for more information.

Teatro El Círculo by Carolina Díaz

Overview

El circulo theatre is located near the historical center of the city, at the intersection of Laprida and Mendoza Streets. Planned as a lyric theater, it was developed as Teatro La Opera by Emilio O. Schiffner, who purchased the society of the same name in 1889. Schiffner hired a German engineer George Goldammer, an acoustician who modified the original design, and the construction firm of Bianchi, Vila y Campania. Following delays caused by the Panic of 1890, as well as the earlier society's debts, the theatre was started in 1903.

Italian artists, directed by Luggi Levoni, decorated both the interiors and exteriors; among their notable creations was the stage curtain designed by Giuseppe Carmignani with images from Greek mythology similar to those found in the Teatro Regio di Parma. Teatro La Opera was inaugurated on June 4, 1904, with the performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Othello.

The theater received many artists from around the world, including opera, ballet, and orchestra performances. Enrico Caruso performed there in 1915, and compared its acoustic quality to that of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.

After this phase of splendor, the theater began to decay, and by 1940 its demolition was being actively considered by the city. The abandoned catacombs underneath the theatre were converted into the Museum of Sacred Art in 1940 to house the prolific work of sculptor Eduardo Barnes. A cultural association known as El Círculo de la Biblioteca (The Library Circle), that previously gathered at the Biblioteca Argentina and needed another place for their meetings, acquired the building in 1943, preserved it, and changed its name to the present one.

The theater has a room for 1,450 people, in five levels. It currently functions mostly as a cultural center. It was fully restored for its 100th anniversary in 2004, and served as a stage for the Third International Congress of the Spanish Language. The sidewalks and the two streets around the corner of the theater were turned into a sort of plaza with an early 20th century look, using old lampposts and replacing the usual asphalted surface with cobblestones.

The theater is on the list of works and sites of patrimonial value of the Rosario, city hall.

Rosario City Center Casino by Iván Lauría

Rosario City Center Casino, located at the end of the Buenos Aires Highway, is the first architectural work in Rosario which combines a 5 star hotel, a convention center for 2000 people and a casino, all in the same place.

Opened to the public in 2009, Rosario City Center offers all kinds of services in the same place such as hairdressers, swimming pools, work rooms, and the casino. There are also many restaurants for all tastes, game rooms for kids and a car park with room available for 2100 cars.

This area, away from the city, was chosen because it was the only area in which this kind of structures could be made, because of its size.

The casino has many floors where you can find child care centres and places for minors on the first floor and also gyms, tennis courts, spa, etc. on other differents floors.

Rosario City Center, like all casinos in general, has got slot machines, different kinds of poker tables, blackjack tables, roulettes, electronic roulettes and bingos.

People also can also enjoy concerts and plays in the theather.

Discos by Mariángeles Genzano

If you are in Rosario and you want to have fun and meet new people you have a lot
of things to do and places to go. It Depends on the time of the year that you come,
because in the summer the discos which are located downtown close and the ones
that are on the beach or near the river open; the opposite happens in the winter, the
discos which are near the river close and the discos in the city open.

The most popular discos in the downtown are: First, there is EL ETERNO a place for
people that are over 23. This place has two dance floors and 6 bars and it is located
on Cordoba 3549. PUEBLA is another disco which is located near El Eterno. It opens
every Friday and Sunday. It has karaoke. It is for people who are over 18 and it is
located on Urquiza 1365 in the downtown area. Then, there is MADAME, which is
one of the biggest discos in Rosario. It is in Brown 3126 and it is for people over 25.
For people who are under age there a disco called START. It is located on Maipu
1000 and it is for people that are under 16.

The most popular discos near the river are: BLUE. a place for people over 18 located
on Av. Colombres 1698. It has different shows every night, like fashion shows, and
sometimes famous people go there and greet the audience and sign autographs:
other times singers do a show. LA BAJADA is another place where we can go near
the river and it´s for people over 21 and it´s located Av. Puccio y Costanera

If you are older you can go to LEGENDS CLUB which is for people over 30 and it´s
located Rivadavia 2739.Then you have other options, you can go to a pub in order to have a drink and meet people.

Rosario is a great city to come and visit, there are a lot of things to do, places to visit,
traditions to learn about and a lot of people that are very kind and friendly to meet.

Rosario at night

Rosario by day

Discos

Rosario Central Stadium by Hernán Coman

The Rosario Central Stadium is in the North of Rosario, it is located between Génova Avenue, Cordiviola Street, Avellaneda Boulevard, and the river walk. It´s a big, elegant and beatiful stadium. It is surrounded by the Alem Park, the Portal Rosario Shopping Mall, and the Parana River, which make for beautiful sightseeing and it is one of the most beautiful areas I nthe city, especially in the Summer.

The stadium has been used not only for soccer, the Argentine rugby team, played a test match against Scotland, and it has been used for important concerts. Internationally acclaimed singers and bands such as Queen, Sting, Alejandro Sanz, Luis Miguel, Ricky Martin, Maná, and many others have performed in this Stadium.

Rosario Central Club was founded 24th December, 1889. It is one of the oldest clubs in existence in the country in this sport among those who participate in tournaments of the Argentine Football Association. Its identifying colors are blue and yellow, and they were designed for badges and sports jackets. The Club started its activity in soccer in 1905.

Since 1939, it has participated in the national tournaments of the Argentine Football Association, which was four times champion of the first division. It is the Argentine team, outside Buenos Aires, with the most national titles, nine in total, 5 in the amateur league, and 4 in the professional league.

At an international level, it won the CONMEBOL Cup once and reached the finals of the same event at another time. This achievement makes it the only team in the Province of Santa Fe to have won an international title at an event officially organized by the South American Football Confederation.

The size of the field is 105 x 70 meters, and after much remodeling, it can hold 41.6541 viewers at present, making it the biggest in Rosario and the third largest in Argentina. Both the World Cup 1978 and the America Cup 1987 were based here.

Newell´s Old Boys Football Team by Mauro Tejada

Isaac Newell was born on April 24th, 1853 in England. Possessed of an adventurous spirit and fanaticism for football, he left his homeland at the age of 16  aboard a ship heading to Antarctica Argentina and settled in the city of Rosario.

In 1884 he founded the "Colegio Comercial Argentino Angelicano" in Rosario, institution that eventually would house the club. That same year he would bring from England the first leather ball and the first official soccer rules to Argentina, and that was when the school began to alternate study with the sport of football. In 1900 Isaac fell ill and delegated management of the college to his eldest son, Claudio. The "Club Atletico Newells Old Boys" was founded on November 3rd, 1903. It was Claudio Newell, son of Isaac, who called teachers and students of the college for an official presentation                  , as the life of his father extinguished. At the ceremony the name "Club Atletico Newell's Old Boys" ( Viejos Muchachos  de Newell) was chosen to honour the life and work of Isaac.

The  colours of the flag  were a combinarion of the flag of England (Isaac´s home) and Germany (home of his wife Anna): red and black. The task of  designing the flag was given to Ernesto Edwards, and a student of the school, had to design the  outfits for the games, then do the same with the jackets.

Both fans and players of Newell's Old Boys are known as "lepers", since  in the early twentieth century they were invited to hold a meeting to benefit leprosy patients resident in the Carrasco Hospital, with their traditional rival  football team, Rosario Cenral. The invitation was accepted immediately by Newell's Old Boys, who received the nickname of "lepers" while their opponents didn't accept the invitation, and received the label of “cold chests”. With the passing of time the nickname was more and more popular, to the point of becoming an emblem for the team.

In conclusion, if you are interested in visiting the stadium of Newell's Old Boys, it is located on 2502 Morcillo Esteban Street. It is a large, comfortable stadium and a pleasure to see. It is a nice place to encourage Newell's football team, If you like to practice other sports such as tennis and hockey, you can also do so there.