Congreso Nacional

This guide to the Congreso Nacional in Buenos Aires centers on the worn stone marker at kilometer zero, the point every highway and route in Argentina has measured distance from since 1935. You'll hear how sculptors Máximo and José Fioravanti borrowed the idea from ancient Rome's golden milestone, carving the Virgin of Luján in place of an emperor, and what the marker's four vanished plaques once depicted. Listen for how Rodin's Thinker, shipped from Paris in 1907, ended up sharing the plaza by accident.