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Palacio Barolo Review
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Palacio Barolo
- Address: Av. de Mayo 1370, Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
- Category: Architectural Sites
- Location: El Centro
Fodor's Review:
The ornate neo-Gothic Palacio Barolo is an architectural homage to Dante Alighieri. The palacio is 100 meters tall, one meter for each of the 100 cantos of the Divine Comedy. The floors are divided into hell, purgatory, and the cupola-ed heaven, which contains a 300,000-bulb beam once used to transmit the results of the Dempsey-Firpo boxing match to the Uruguayan coast. So Dante-obsessed was its architect Mario Palanti that he considered trying to bring the poet's ashes from Italy.
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