Take a tour of Buenos Aires Monumental Tower in Buenos Aires, Argentina - part of the World's Greatest Attractions travel video series by GeoBeats. The Monumental Tower in Buenos Aires, Argentina stands seventy-five and a half feet tall in a lush courtyard of the city. The tower was given to the city by British residents of Buenos Aires to commemorate the 1810 May Revolution. Constructed by Hopkins Y Gardom, the tower was built solely with imported materials from Great Britain. It is decorated with icons of Great Britain, including a Scottish thistle, an English rose, a Welsh dragon, and an Irish Shamrock. A war memorial has strategically been erected adjacent to the tower in remembrance of the recent battle between Britain and Argentina. The octagonal shaped copper roof forms a cupola, and is adorned with the shields of Great Britain and Argentina, symbolizing their past friendship.
