Monserrat, Buenos Aires

Monserrat
Barrio
Clockwise from top: the Plaza de Mayo, the Cabildo, South Diagonal and Casa Rosada.
Emblem[1]
Location of Montserrat within Buenos Aires
Country	Argentina
Autonomous City	Buenos Aires
Comuna	C1
Important sites	City Hall City Legislature Buenos Aires Cabildo Café Tortoni Casa Rosada Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires Jesuit Temple of St. Ignatius and college Plaza de Mayo Equestrian monument to General Manuel Belgrano
Area
• Total	2.2 km2 (0.8 sq mi)
Population
• Total	43,560
• Density	20,000/km2 (51,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-3 (ART)

Monserrat^[2] or Montserrat^[3][b] (pronounced [monseˈrat]) is a neighbourhood in the east of the Buenos Aires CBD. The district features some of the most important public buildings in Buenos Aires, including city hall, the city legislature, Casa Rosada, the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires and the Libertador Building (Ministry of Defense), among others.

Avenida de Mayo runs through the Monserrat district, connecting Plaza de Mayo and the Plaza de los Dos Congresos (Congressional Plaza).

A block, or two, south of the Plaza de Mayo, the older section of Monserrat begins. This is Buenos Aires' oldest neighborhood and even today, very little of the cityscape there is less than a hundred years old (except along Belgrano Avenue), thereby making a nearly seamless transition to the likewise historic San Telmo district, to the south.

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