Florida Street is a popular shopping street in Downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina. A pedestrian street since 1971, some stretches have been pedestrianized since 1913.
View of Florida street in 2013.
Florida street c. 1899
Florida with electric light, 1900.
Night view in 1936.
Buenos Aires Central Business District
The Buenos Aires Central Business District is the main commercial centre of Buenos Aires, Argentina, though not an official city ward. While the barrios of Puerto Madero and Retiro house important business complexes and modern high-rise architecture, the area traditionally known as Microcentro is located within San Nicolás and Monserrat, roughly coinciding with the area around the historic center of the Plaza de Mayo. The Microcentro has a wide concentration of offices, service companies and banks, and a large circulation of pedestrians on working days. Another name given to this unofficial barrio is La City, which refers more precisely to an even smaller sector within the Microcentro, where almost all the banking headquarters of the country are concentrated.
Aerial view of Buenos Aires' central business district
Near the corner of Florida street and the Diagonal Norte thoroughfare, featuring several styles of architecture.
A representative image of pedestrians at the Microcentro
The Avenida Leandro N. Alem in Retiro, featuring the Catalinas Norte business complex.