Palacio Pizzurno
The Palacio Pizzurno , also known as Palacio Sarmiento , is one of the most architecturally important buildings in the Recoleta district in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires . Today the Argentine Ministry of Education is located here. The Palacio Pizzurno and the adjacent Pasaje Pizzurno are included in the list of National Historic Monuments of Argentina .
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In the will of Petronila Rodríguez de Rojas it was stated that her approximately six hectare property in the north of Buenos Aires should be used for educational and charitable purposes. This included building a church, an old people's home and a girls' school for at least 700 students. When Rodríguez de Rojas died in 1882, she left her property to the city, which commissioned the German-Argentinian Carlos Adolfo Altgelt and his cousin Hans Altgelt to build the school.
Work on the building began in 1886. There were also plans for a museum and library. In 1888 the building, designed in the eclectic style of the French Renaissance, was completed. The school named after the founder opened in 1893. The impressive building was quickly chosen for use as a government office and in 1903 the National Education Council moved into the Palacio Pizzurno. In honor of Domingo Sarmiento , the building was renamed Palacio Sarmiento.
Its location in the tree-lined Plaza Rodríguez Peña made it a kind of oasis in the lively Barrio Norte, as this part of Recoleta is also called. Part of the property south of the Palacio Pizzurno became the Plaza Petronila Rodríguez de Rojas in the 1950s, where a playground was set up; a homage to the citizen with a sense of community (in 1934 a primary school in Parque Chas was named after her).
In 1978, during the military dictatorship , the National Education Council was dissolved and the Ministry of Education moved into the building. Officially known as Palacio Sarmiento, it is called Palacio Pizzurno among the population after the side street on which it is located and which was named in 1940 after Pablo Pizzurno , the Argentine educator and founder of the primary school system in Argentina.
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Coordinates: 34 ° 35 ′ 52 ″ S , 58 ° 23 ′ 27 ″ W.