Parque 9 de Julio (July 9 Park).

   Map of 9 de Julio Park in San Miguel de Tucumán
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The original layout of Parque 9 de Julio, with a surface of 990 acres (4 km2), situated it in a huge oval.

It was inaugurated in 1916, the Independence 100th anniversary, when Don Ernesto Padilla was the Governor of Tucumán.

The design was a work by Carlos Thays, a French urbanistic architect. Green spaces within the park eventually grew smaller because of the permissions granted to many institutions in order to put up buildings such as the airport (today the Terminal Bus Station), a race track, the San Martín and Sarmiento neighborhoods, the Education Department at Tucumán National University and others, and consequently, now they are reduced to 247 acres (1 km2).

Among the main attractions in the park are: a flower clock, a roof garden and a luminous fountain. Among the many sculptures are: The Vestal, Apollo, Young Man Praying and the Venus of Melos.