The Buenos Aires City Government has planned guided visits to one of the few preserved colonial houses of our city. It’s the house where Spanish Viceroy Santiago de Liniers lived in the end of the XVIII Century. Until December 31st, Mondays to Fridays at 12PM and Sundays from 12PM to 6PM, in Montserrat neighborhood, you can visit one of those special houses that keep Buenos Aires history.
On 469 Venezuela Street, you’ll find this little white house, colonial style, built in 1788 on the bases of an older palace. It was declared National Historical Monument in 1942, because of its architectural value. Its most famous inhabitant was Santiago de Liniers, penultimate viceroy of the River Plate area, who lived there between 1806 and 1809. Today, this space is the last preserved colonial house in the city.
Although the backyard of the house was reformed to become a print house for Estrada Editors, its front has been preserved in every detail and you can have a glimpse of the typical colonial architecture. Some of them are: the wide walls, the tiled-roofs, the heavy and solid entrance door, the classic railing windows and the spacious front and backyards.
The interiors have also been preserved allowing you to enjoy pieces of classic furniture, draws, sketches and pictures of several significant moments of the family house. In the guided visit, the audience is accompanied by “ghosts” (eight actors) who wonder around the most remote places of the house producing a unique environment.
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