title: Italpark
text: # Italpark
  
  The Italpark was a theme park in Argentina, which was located where currently is the Parque Thays (del Libertador corner Callao avenues) in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. It became a landmark of Buenos Aires in its 30 years of existence.
  
  ## Crisis and demise
  
  On 29 July 1990, one of the wagons of the ride Matter Horn broke, and in the incident a 15-year-old girl named Roxana Celia Alaimo died, and her friend Karina Benítez was severely wounded.
  
  Four months later, the city mayor Carlos Grosso ordered the definitive closure of Italpark.
  
  