"Avenida de las Camelias" (Camellia Avenue) is an Argentine military march composed in 1915 by Pedro Maranesi.
[a][1] It is a completely instrumental work usually played with bass drums and trumpets.
Oral tradition dates its inspiration to 1915, when the 5th Army Division Band was rehearsing some marching maneuvers in a small village in Salta Province called Campo del Durazno, in Rosario de la Frontera Department.
[3] Maestro Pedro Maranesi took this fact and composed a march on the bass drumhead, and named it Avenida de las Camelias.
The march quickly earned a big popularity, being performed in numerous military parades, ceremonies and internal activities of the Argentine Armed Forces, and played by bands in foreign countries as well, such as Germany and Poland.