The prefab house
English iron and wood.
Villa Victoria is a summer house built in 1912 for the wealthy Ocampo family of Buenos Aires, a gift from Manuel Ocampo to Francisca Ocampo de Ocampo. What sets it apart is that it is a prefabricated house of iron and wood whose parts were shipped from England and assembled on site, with wooden verandas, in a garden filling a whole block of the quiet Los Troncos district. It was inherited by the writer Victoria Ocampo, one of the leading Argentine intellectuals of the 20th century, who made it a summer meeting place for writers and artists and gave it to UNESCO in 1973. The city later bought it, and today it is a cultural centre showing its rooms and its owner's story, with exhibitions, concerts and plays. It opens Tuesday to Sunday 15:00-19:00. The events programme changes monthly, and some events charge separately.
English iron and wood.
A whole city block.
Exhibitions and music.
Matheu 1851, Los Troncos, Mar del Plata
It is a prefabricated iron-and-wood house shipped from England in 1912, and it was the writer Victoria Ocampo's summer meeting place for intellectuals.
