Victoria, Entre Rios (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Victoria is a city in the southwest of the province of Entre Rios, Argentina. It is located on the eastern shore of the Parana River, opposite Rosario, Santa Fe, to which it is connected since 2003 by the Rosario-Victoria Bridge (which spans almost 60 km over the flood plain of the Parana Delta). The site of a 1750 defeat of a native uprising and an 1810 oratory to the Virgin of Aranzazu, a Marian apparition and the city's patron saint, Cerro La Matanza was granted village status by the Provincial Legislature, in 1826. An 1829 edict renamed the hamlet Victoria. The church (started in 1872) is dedicated to this patron. Designated a "city" in 1851, Victoria also features an abbey (Abadia Los Monjes del Nino Dios), founded by Benedictine monks who arrived in 1899.