Inner courtyards
Pink walls.
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The Recoleta Cultural Centre is one of the largest cultural centres in Argentina and Latin America, visited by about a million people a year. It fills a historic complex about three centuries old that in the nineteenth century became a care home, the Asilo General Viamonte, and was turned into an arts centre in the early 1980s; today it is a National Historic Monument with pink walls and inner courtyards. It spreads over some twenty-five thousand square metres, with sixteen exhibition rooms, a cinema, a concert hall, four courtyards, an open terrace and a drawing space for children, offering visual art and photography shows and theatre, dance and music all year. It sits in a busy visitor area beside Recoleta Cemetery and Plaza Francia. It opens Tuesday to Sunday; entry is free for Argentines and residents, while foreign tourists pay a flat fee.
Pink walls.
Art and photography.
Neighbourhood views.
Junín 1930, beside Plaza Francia, Recoleta
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