The same high white facades laden with balconies and curvaceous turrets, the same majesty evoking Baroque art… The Barolo and the Salvo are brothers, no doubt about it. Each respectively planted on one of the emblematic squares of the Argentine and Uruguayan capitals, their twinness has shrouded them for a century of mystery as well as a thousand interpretations of the inspiration that gave birth to them.
The Barolo, in Buenos Aires, would thus have been conceived as a tribute to The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri, whose architect Mario Palanti and Luis Barolo (the businessman who commissioned the building from him) were fervent admirers. The nation Explain : “The palace is considered to be divided into three parts: hell, heaven and purgatory. Also, the height of the building, which is 100 meters, coincides with the hundred songs of Dante’s work.”