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| page_scrape,3.471254587173462,6.345120429992676,,,https://turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar/en/atractivo/palacio-san-martín,957.0,"# Palacio San Martín | |
| This sumptuous mansion was designed by the architect Alejandro Christophersen, who was also responsible for the facade ofCafé Tortoniand for the Russian Orthodox Church in San Telmo. He was commissioned by Mercedes Castellanos de Anchorena, whose family would live in the house until the 1930s. | |
| The complex combines elements of French academic and Bourbon style and comprises three independent buildings that converge in a central hall. The Argentine government acquired the building in 1936 to house the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1998, the ministry's administrative functions were moved to the modern building with mirrored facade that stands opposite on the corner of Arenales and Esmeralda, but the mansion is still used for its ceremonial activities. The new building was designed by Natán Aizanstat, Carlos Rajlin, Carlos Dodero and Cristina Levinton, and its mirrored facade creates a dialogue with the traditional mansion. | |
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| **San Martín Palace**(_Palacio San Martín_) is located facingPlaza San Martínin theRetironeighbourhood ofBuenos Aires,Argentinaand serves as the Ceremonial Headquarters for theMinistry of Foreign Relations. | |
| TheBeaux Artsstyle palace was designed forMercedes Castellanos de Anchorenaby the architectAlejandro Christophersenin 1905. Finished in 1909, the building was acquired by the Argentine government in 1936 and became the headquarters for the Ministry of Foreign Relations. A new headquarters was completed in 1993; the palace became the ministry's ceremonial headquarters. | |
| The palace contains many works of art by Argentine and American artists from the 20th century, includingAntonio Berni,Pablo Curatella Manes,Lino Enea Spilimbergo, andRoberto Matta. | |
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| The San Martin Palace is located at 761 Arenales street, in the neighbourhood of Retiro. It sits opposite the beautiful and historic San Martin Square, built on a natural sloping hill which overlooks the River Plate.**San Martin Square** Native jacarandas, magnolias, silk floss and rubber trees surround the elegant early 20th century buildings that border the square. The square bears homage to Argentina’s liberator, General Jose de San Martin (1778-1850), and its most important monument is a memorial to San Martín by French sculptor Louis-Joseph Daumas, the oldest equestrian monument in Argentina, built in 1862. San Martin’s finger points towards the Andes Mountains, the route of his epic journey for national independence. San Martin Square has undergone several transformations over the past four centuries, possibly more than any other area in the city. Until the late 17th century, it was known as “El Retiro [The Retreat]” after a monk’s hermitage that stood on the site. In the early 18th century, it served as a slave market and warehouse; in 1800, the second and last Bullring of Buenos Aires was built on the square, where it operated until bullfighting was banned in 1819. The General San Martin Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers would later be established here, until the definitive landscape of the square and its surroundings began to emerge towards the late 19th century.**Former Anchorena Palace** The Anchorena Palace was built between 1905 and 1909 by the architect Alejandro Christophersen, at the request of Mercedes Castellanos de Anchorena. It is a striking example of the strong influence at the time of the École des Beaux-Arts. The Palace is inspired by the project “Un hôtel à Paris pour un riche banquier”, which earned Jean-Louis Pascal, Christophersen’s teacher and mentor, a Grand Prix de Rome—the most prestigious architecture prize at the time—in 1866. The sculpture-like façades display convex mansard roofs, domes, chimneys, oeils-de-boeuf; the columns and pilasters along the two main floors and balconies are supported by grand corbels. The winter garden on the façade facing Basavilbaso street reflects the quality of the building’s blacksmithing work, produced at the Zamboni workshop in Buenos Aires. The oval-shaped cour d’honneur encloses a well-proportioned area of skilful composition, defined by an arcade bounded by Doric columns, grand staircases, interior fronts, mansard roofs with curved lines, and two domes. While it looks like a single complex, it is comprised of three residences: one facing Esmeralda street, once inhabited by Mercedes Castellanos de Anchorena and her son Aaron; a central residence, where Enrique Anchorena lived with his family; and another facing Basavilbaso street, formerly inhabited by Leonor Uriburu, Emilio Anchorena’s widow. However, the differences in the interiors of these mansions are not limited to their surface layers—they also have dissimilar spatial distributions: the hall of the third residence is three times as high, and the main staircase is not placed as prominently as in the other residences. Nevertheless, according to the original drawings made by the building’s architect, the location of the main staircase in the third mansion was more aligned with the postulates of the École des Beaux-Arts. The interior distribution is in line with the usual pattern in this kind of residence: storage, installations, and male service personnel rooms are on the ground floor; reception rooms are on the first floor; private rooms are on the second floor; and female service personnel, washing, and clothes storage rooms are on the mansard roofs. There are some differences in the interiors of the three residences. While the interior of the mansion located on Esmeralda street and the central mansion are similar, with a stucco finish on mural surfaces, the residence on Basavilbaso is inspired by Neoclassicism and by the Renaissance, with a faux Parisian stone finish in the Hall of Honour. The Anchorena Palace hosted several important social events, such as the Independence Centennial ball of 1916.**San Martin Palace** In 1936, the Argentine Government acquired the Anchorena Palace to serve as the seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and renamed it San Martin Palace. It is now the seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship for protocol purposes only; the offices of the Ministry are now in the new building located at Arenales and Esmeralda, its architecture in dialogue with Christophersen’s monumental work. The San Martin Palace, a national historic landmark, houses works by Argentine and Latin American artists of the 20th century, such as Antonio Berni, Pablo Curatella Manes, Lino Enea Spilimbergo, and Roberto Matta, among others. Additionally, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship has a Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, featuring ceramic, stone, and metal pieces by peoples who lived in the northwest of Argentina, such as San Francisco, Vaquerias, Condorhuasi, Cienaga, Aguada, and Santa María. The Ministry also has a specialized library on international law and the history of international relations. The building is a valuable testament to the level attained by French classicism architecture and to the adaptation of eighteenth-century French residence types to the local medium.**Free Tour in English to San Martín Palace** Thurdays at 15.00 pm. Guide: Carolina Navarro**IMPORTANT: guided tours may be suspended without prior notice when protocol activities are taking place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship.** | |
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| **San Martín Palace**(_Palacio San Martín_) is located facingPlaza San Martínin theRetironeighbourhood ofBuenos Aires,Argentinaand serves as the Ceremonial Headquarters for theMinistry of Foreign Relations. | |
| TheBeaux Artsstyle palace was designed forMercedes Castellanos de Anchorenaby the architectAlejandro Christophersenin 1905. Finished in 1909, the building was acquired by the Argentine government in 1936 and became the headquarters for the Ministry of Foreign Relations. A new headquarters was completed in 1993; the palace became the ministry's ceremonial headquarters. | |
| The palace contains many works of art by Argentine and American artists from the 20th century, includingAntonio Berni,Pablo Curatella Manes,Lino Enea Spilimbergo, andRoberto Matta. | |
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| * San Martín Cultural Center | |
| * San Martín National Institute | |
| * San Lorenzo Stadium | |
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| A succession of colonialSpanishgovernors had their official residences built on what today is the plaza and, in 1713, the land was sold to theBritishSouth Sea Company. The South Sea Company operated theirslave tradeout of the former governor's residence and a fort and bullring were later built nearby. The land was the site of Gen.John Whitelocke's 1807 defeat upon Britain'ssecond attemptto conquer Buenos Aires, whereby the area became known as the ""Field of Glory"". TheRevolution of 1810brought an autonomous government to Buenos Aires, which entrusted theMounted GrenadierstoJosé de San Martínand allowed him to establish his main barracks at the plaza. An 1813 resolution abolished the slave trade in theUnited Provinces of the Río de la Plataand the slave quarters were shuttered. Following his decisive military victories, Gen. San Martín was forced into exile in 1824 for political reasons; but a reappraisal of his place in history led to his becoming nearlyeponymousin Argentina after his death in 1850. Accordingly,FrenchsculptorLouis-Joseph Daumaswas commissioned in 1862 to create an equestrian statue of the hero of the Wars for Independence and the square was renamed in his honor in 1878, upon the hundredth anniversary of his birth. | |
| View of Plaza San Martín in 1920, when the Argentine Pavilion (_left_) still graced the park as an art museum Monument to José de San Martín, the plaza namesake. _Monumento a los caídos en Malvinas_(Monument for the fallen in theFalklands War) is located in Plaza San Martin | |
| Following remodeling works by British architect Edward Taylor and Argentine architect José Canale, the fort, bullring and other buildings were demolished in 1883 by order of MayorTorcuato de Alvear, converting the area into a plaza. NumerousOmbú,LindenandFloss Silk treeswere planted. The same administration also shaped thePlaza de Mayo, nearby and in 1889 French urbanistCharles Thayswas commissioned to give the plaza its approximate current form (among numerous other designs he left Argentina over the next twenty years). The plaza became the preferred surroundings for some of Argentina's wealthiest landowners around 1900. Three architecturally significant mansions facing the plaza surviving today were theBeaux ArtsSan Martín Palace(today the ceremonial annex of the Foreign Ministry), theSecond EmpirePaz Palace(today the Military Officers' Association) and theNeogothicHaedo Palace(today the offices of the National Parks Administration). | |
| The park was the site in 1909 of the inaugural of both the first premier hotel in Argentina (thePlaza) and of the newNational Museum of Fine Arts, for which the glass and steel pavilion used at the1889 World's Fairin Paris was enlisted; structurally inadequate, the pavilion was demolished in 1932, however. Plaza San Martín and its surroundings acquired their current physiognomy in 1936, when Charles Thays' son, Carlos León Thays, designed the esplanade surrounding the monument and when the 33-storyArt DecoKavanagh Buildingwas completed. Though the surrounding area has since seen much of its older architecture replaced by high-rises (notably the 1975Pirellibuilding), the plaza has remained timeless. Its western section was separated to make way for a rerouting of Maipú Street in 1972; but PresidentNéstor Kirchnerordered the change reverted in 2004, in response to long-standing appeals by neighbours and friends of the park. | |
| In spring 2009 an exhibition of the ""United Buddy Bears"" was held in the park, for the first on the American continent. The exhibition consisted of more than 140 bear sculptures, each two metres high and designed by a different artist. | |
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| Private Architecture and Palaces Tour in Buenos Aires | |
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