British Clock Tower

This Elizabethan-style clock tower, which some call the Argentine Big Ben, was a gift from the British community of Buenos Aires. After the war in the Falklands, anything associated with Britain was renamed and the tower became Torre Monumental, although nearly all locals still call it the British Clock Tower. The monument survived the war unscathed, but a few years later during an anniversary memorial service, an angry mob attacked it. They destroyed portions of the base and also toppled a statue of George Canning, the first British diplomat to recognize the country's independence from Spain (he's now safely kept at the British Embassy).