Torre Monumental

This guide to Torre Monumental in Buenos Aires opens with a 1984 bombing at the foot of a downtown clock tower, then rewinds to May 1916, when Argentina's president joined British diplomats to unveil a gift from the city's British community: a seventy-five-meter tower of English brick and Portland stone, shipped across the Atlantic for the country's centennial and built to chime like Westminster Abbey. It stood over the plaza in front of Retiro station, where British-run railway workers once caught their trains home.