Palacio Barolo (Buenos Aires)
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Buenos Aires /
Buenos Aires /
Avenida de Mayo, 1370
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Palacio Barolo (spanish for Barolo Palace) is a landmark office building, located at 1370 Avenida de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Italian architect Mario Palanti was commissioned to design the building by the empresario Luis Barolo, an Italian immigrant who had arrived in Argentina in 1890 and had made a fortune in knitted fabrics. The basic design, in Eclectic style, was conceived simultaneously with one for the Palacio Salvo in Montevideo, Uruguay.
The Palacio Barolo was designed in accordance with the cosmology of Dante's Divine Comedy, motivated by the architect's admiration for Alighieri. There are 22 floors, divided into three "sections". The basement and ground floor represent hell, floors 1-14 are the purgatory, and 15-22 represent heaven. The building is 100 meters (328 feet) tall, one meter for each canto of the Divine Comedy. The lighthouse at the top of the building can be seen all the way in Montevideo, Uruguay. The owner planned to use only 3 floors, and to rent the rest.
When completed in 1923 it was the tallest building not only in the city but also in the whole of South America. Today it mainly houses lawyers' offices, as well as a Spanish language school, a store that sells Tango clothing and a theater in the basement level.
This building was declared a national historic monument in 1997.
Italian architect Mario Palanti was commissioned to design the building by the empresario Luis Barolo, an Italian immigrant who had arrived in Argentina in 1890 and had made a fortune in knitted fabrics. The basic design, in Eclectic style, was conceived simultaneously with one for the Palacio Salvo in Montevideo, Uruguay.
The Palacio Barolo was designed in accordance with the cosmology of Dante's Divine Comedy, motivated by the architect's admiration for Alighieri. There are 22 floors, divided into three "sections". The basement and ground floor represent hell, floors 1-14 are the purgatory, and 15-22 represent heaven. The building is 100 meters (328 feet) tall, one meter for each canto of the Divine Comedy. The lighthouse at the top of the building can be seen all the way in Montevideo, Uruguay. The owner planned to use only 3 floors, and to rent the rest.
When completed in 1923 it was the tallest building not only in the city but also in the whole of South America. Today it mainly houses lawyers' offices, as well as a Spanish language school, a store that sells Tango clothing and a theater in the basement level.
This building was declared a national historic monument in 1997.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palacio_Barolo
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 34°36'34"S 58°23'8"W
- Central Department of the Argentine Federal Police 0.4 km
- Libertador Building - Ministry of Defense 1.6 km
- Torre Repsol-YPF 2.1 km
- Madero Center 2.1 km
- Torre Catalinas 2.1 km
- Line Park Office 4.4 km
- Panamericana Plaza 12 km
- IBM Argentina - Olivos III 16 km
- I.B.M. Martinez 18 km
- QBOX CONSOLIDADO Headquarters 49 km
- Avenida Theater 0.2 km
- Parish of Our Lady of Piety of Mount Calvary 0.3 km
- Nuestra Señora de Monserrat Church 0.4 km
- Central Department of the Argentine Federal Police 0.4 km
- Plaza del Congreso 0.4 km
- Dos Congresos Monument 0.5 km
- Argentine National Congress Palace 0.6 km
- Montserrat neighbourhood 0.7 km
- San Nicolás neighborhood 0.8 km
- Balvanera neighborhood 1.6 km
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