Palacio Salvo

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Palacio Salvo
Palacio Salvo as seen from the opposite end of Plaza Independencia

The Palacio Salvo is a building in Montevideo , Uruguay and is located at the intersection of Avenida 18 de Julio and Plaza Independencia . It was commissioned by the textile industrialists of Italian origin, the brothers José and Lorenzo Salvo, and designed by the architect Mario Palanti in 1922. October 12, 1928 was the official inauguration day. With a height of 105 m, the striking building in the Art Deco style was the tallest structure in South America until 1935.

The Palacio Salvo was built on the site where the bar and confiteria La Giralda previously stood . There Gerardo Matos Rodríguez wrote his piece La Cumparsita in 1917 , which is considered the hymn of tango . The somewhat smaller Palacio Barolo in Buenos Aires , planned by the same architect, served as a model for the splendid high-rise, which was much criticized at the time . Today the Palacio Salvo is a symbol of Montevideo and a nostalgic reminder of the period of prosperity in Uruguay in the first third of the 20th century.

In 1995 the Palacio Salvo was declared a Bien de Interés Municipal . The following year it was classified as a Monumento Histórico Nacional .

literature

  • Juan Carlos Reynés L .: Un dirigible sobre el palacio: los 75 anos del palacio salvo y su época entre la polémica arequitectónica y la exaltación ciudadana. Ediciones de la Plaza, Montevideo 2003, ISBN 9974-48-062-0 (commemorative publication for the 75th anniversary of the building).
  • Guía Arquitectónica y Urbanística de Montevideo. 3. Edition. Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo et al., Montevideo et al. 2008, ISBN 978-9974-600-26-3 , pp. 63, 137.

Web links

Commons : Palacio Salvo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 34 ° 54 ′ 24.2 ″  S , 56 ° 11 ′ 53.9 ″  W.

Individual evidence

  1. 100 years of La Cumparsita: que había venido a hacer la temporada al Bar y Confitería La Giralda , propiedad de los hermanos Soto y Hermosilla. ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lacumparsita100.uy