Palermo (Buenos Aires) - Palermo (Buenos Aires)

Palermo
(Buenos Aires)
Avenida del Libertador y Bullrich,
Location
Palermo - Location
StateArgentina
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Disambiguation - For toponyms of identical name, see Palermo (disambiguation).

Palermo is one of the 48 districts into which the autonomous city of Buenos Aires.

To know


How to orient yourself

Neighborhoods

Being very large, the barrio Palermo includes several districts:

  • Alto Palermo - The central area.
  • Palermo Chico
  • Palermo Hollywood
  • Palermo Soho - The night club area.
  • Palermo Viejo
  • Barrio Parque
  • Las Cañitas


How to get

Metro line D serves the neighborhood.

How to get around


What see

  • 1 Museo de Arte Latinoamericano (Malba), Av. Figueroa Alcorta 3415, ☎ 54 11 4808 6500. Simple icon time.svgWed-Sun 12: 00-20: 00. Collection of works by South American artists of the twentieth century organized into four thematic sections:
1) Latin American avant-gardes of the 1920s;
2) Paintings of the 30s and 40s in which artistic currents such as surrealism are linked in allegorical form to the political debate
3) Abstract and concrete trends, from Madí art to kineticism
3) Contemporary art with representative works of pop, conceptualism and minimalism of the 60s and 70s. Buenos Aires Latin American Art Museum on Wikipedia Buenos Aires Museum of Latin American Art (Q1808336) on Wikidata 
  • 2 Evita Museum, Calle Lafinur 2988 (Plaza Italia metro station on line D.), ☎ 54 11 4807-0306, 5411 4809-3168. Simple icon time.svgTue-Sun 11: 00-19: 00. 
  • 3 Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo, Av. Del Libertador 1902, ☎ 54 11 4801-8248. Ecb copyright.svgFree admission. Simple icon time.svgTue-Sun 12:30 to 19:00. The museum dedicated to design and decorative arts, has collections of sculptures, paintings, tapestries, weapons, books, ceramics, furniture and miniatures, mainly European and Oriental, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
The museum is housed in the Errázuriz Alvear Palace, designed in 1911 by the architect René Sergent, in a French neoclassical style. The building was the residence of the family formed by Josefina de Alvear and Matías Errázuriz Ortúzar. The couple lived for ten years in Europe and acquired a valuable collection of European and Eastern art there. In 1936, the national state bought the house and the collections and a year later the National Museum of Decorative Art was created.
The Museum's current inventory exceeds 6,000 objects, from Roman sculptures to handcrafted contemporary silverware creations. The collection's greatest interest lies in the pieces of European and Oriental decorative arts, sculptures and paintings from the 16th to 19th centuries, many of which belonged to the Errázuriz Alvear.
Among the standout pieces, there is the ensemble of European miniatures from the 16th to the 20th century - the most important of its kind -, an oil on canvas by El Greco, 16th century tapestries, a sculpture by Auguste Rodin and a bronze clock which was a wedding gift for kings Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
The palace has been restored as a house-museum, which not only houses precious pieces of art and furniture from different eras, but also reveals the lifestyle of a patrician family at the beginning of the 20th century. During the eighteen years that the Errázuriz Alvear lived, the house was the scene of receptions, concerts and charity dances; also a space of luxury and comfort. To make life more comfortable at home, the architect Sergent incorporated a lot of technological advancements: two elevators, a central heating system and a centralized dust extraction system, very new for the time.
The house recreates the most significant styles of European decorative art and decoration of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It has a small room decorated in an early Art Deco style by the Catalan artist José María Sert; There are four oil painted panels, one on a mirror. That room is the only one in the house with 20th century decorations. The residence also has an impressive French-style garden which serves as an extension of the reception rooms. The central axis of the composition is the Swan Fountain, surrounded by boxed flower beds that evoke the designs of the Palace of Versailles. National Museum of Decorative Arts on Wikipedia National Museum of Decorative Arts (Q1136338) on Wikidata 


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