renowned intellectuals from the Spanish-speaking world, such as Dominican Pedro Henríquez Ureña.
La Plata in the 20th century
Under Alvear's administration (1922–1928), Enrique Mosconi, the president of the oil state companyYacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales, created the distillery of La Plata, which was the tenth largest in the world.
On 10 December 1945, in the Parish of St. Francis of Assisi in this city, Juan Domingo Perón and Eva Duarte married.
The city was renamed in 1952 as Eva Perón, though the original name was restored in 1955. La Plata's residents are served by numerous daily newspapers, the most prominent of which is El Día.
It was filmed in the 1997 film "Seven Years in Tibet", which featured a performance by Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, BD Wong, Mako, Danny Denzongpa, Victor Wong, Ingeborga Dapkunaite and Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk, among others. Location was used as a local train terminal, having a design similar to the train in Austria. The film belongs to the drama and was shot mostly in the U.S. and in the province of Mendoza, Argentina.
In October 1998, UNESCO approved the city's bid to gain recognition as a Heritage of Humanity. The distinction is still pending due to various objections to the criterion of maintaining architectural and landscape over recent decades, which in the opinion of other specialists has produced severe damage to the original design and contextual aesthetics.
Present
On June 7, 2003 opened the Estadio Ciudad de La Plata, one of the most modern in Latin America, even without having completed all the planned works.
On 28 October 2007 Pablo Bruera was elected Mayor with 26% of the vote, replacing Julio Alak, who had been in charge since 1991.
During 2009, following a series of agreements between the city municipality, the governor of the province and the nation's presidency, progress was made in the final transfer of the land of the Paseo
