3D print the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral
A free, printable model of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral, with its columned portico and dome, among tall city buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 16 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
16 mm tall on a 160 mm print
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- A portico of slim columns
The front portico is a row of slim columns under a triangular pediment. Print friendly adapts the thinnest columns to the print scale; Full detail keeps all of them on a larger print.
- A dome with a small lantern
The dome ends in a small lantern. Layers of 0.12–0.16 mm and slower printing keep that small tip crisp.
- One piece with the ground
The Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral
The Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the Argentine capital. It faces the Plaza de Mayo, standing where San Martín and Rivadavia streets meet, in the San Nicolás neighborhood, and it serves as the mother church for the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires. In 1942 it was named a National Historic Monument. When Juan de Garay founded the city on June 11, 1580, he reserved for the main church one quarter of a city block, the same plot the cathedral covers.
The site has seen several buildings. A second cathedral, finished in 1671, had a timber roof, a single tower and a three-nave plan, but poor materials brought its tower and roof down in the early 1680s, and rebuilding began in 1684. The first of two towers was finished around 1721 and the second around 1725. Italian Jesuit Giovanni Bianchi redesigned the main facade between 1725 and 1727. The nave collapsed during the night of May 23, 1752, and Antonio Masella led a rebuild from 1753 for a church much larger than the previous one.
Manuel Álvarez de Rocha rebuilt the dome after 1770. The earlier facade and towers were demolished in 1778 as too small for the new cathedral, which was consecrated in 1779 without a facade. Prosper Catelin and Pierre Benoit, both French architects, began a Neoclassical facade in 1826, drawing on the Palais Bourbon in Paris. Its tall portico has twelve columns and a triangular pediment and gives the building the look of an ancient temple. Between 1860 and 1863, Joseph Dubourdieu made the pediment reliefs, showing Joseph reunited in Egypt with his brothers and father Jacob.
About this model
The Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral is one of more than 4,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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