Federico Lacroze is a subway station of the Line B of the Buenos Aires Metro

Buenos Aires Metro

The Buenos Aires Metro , locally known as Subte is a mass-transit system that serves the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The first station of this network opened in 1913, the first of its kind in South America, the Southern Hemisphere and the entire Spanish-speaking world...

, located at the intersection of Corrientes

Corrientes Avenue

Avenida Corrientes is one of the principal thoroughfares of the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires. The street is intimately tied to the tango and the porteño sense of identity...

 and Federico Lacroze avenues in the Chacarita neighbourhood and near the La Chacarita Cemetery

La Chacarita Cemetery

Cementerio de la Chacarita in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is known as the National Cemetery and is the largest in Argentina.-Location:The cemetery is in the barrio or district of Chacarita, in the northern part of Buenos Aires...

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It was a terminal station of line B from its inauguration on 17 October 1930, and the inauguration of the extension to the Incas station on 9 August 2003.

This station has connection to the Federico Lacroze railway station  Urquiza suburban electric commuter line operated by the subway operator Metrovías

Metrovías

Metrovías S.A. is a privately owned company which, on 1 January 1994, took over the concession, granted by the Argentine government as part of railway privatisation during the presidency of Carlos Menem, for the operation of the standard gauge Urquiza Line commuter rail service in Buenos Aires,...

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Decoration

The station has in its south platform wall a mural El desatino (The folly) of Gustavo Grünig, made in 1991 and in 2000, an untitled work of Emma Gargiulo.

External links

• Subterráneos de Buenos Aires (Official Page) Federico Lacroze Metro Station