Pizzurno Palace
The Palacio Pizzurno, also called Palacio Sarmiento, is one of the most architecturally important buildings in the Recoleta district of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. Today it houses the Argentine Ministry of Education. The Palacio Pizzurno and the adjacent Pasaje Pizzurno are added to the list of National Historic Monuments of Argentina.
Overview
In the Testament of Petronila Rodríguez de Rojas was determined that her approximately six hectares of land should be used in the north of Buenos Aires for educational and charitable purposes. This included the construction of a church, a retirement home and a girls' school for at least 700 students. As Rodríguez de Rojas died in 1882, she left behind according to their possession of the city, which commissioned the German - Argentine Carlos Adolfo Altgelt and his cousin Hans Altgelt with the construction of the school.
Work on the building began in 1886. Were also provided space for a museum and a library. 1888 designed in eclectic style of the French Renaissance building was completed. Opened in 1893, named after the founder school. The impressive building was quickly chosen for use as government offices and in 1903 moved to the National Board of Education in the Palacio Pizzurno. In honor of Domingo Sarmiento, the building was renamed the Palacio Sarmiento.
Its location on the tree-lined Plaza Rodríguez Peña made it a kind of oasis in the lively Barrio Norte, as this is part of Recoleta also called. A portion of the land south of the Palacio Pizzurno was in the 1950 Plaza Petronila Rodríguez de Rojas, on the playground is; a tribute to the citizen with a sense of the community (1934 was also named an elementary school in Parque Chas according to her).
1978, during the military dictatorship, the National Board of Education was dissolved and the Ministry of Education moved into the building. Officially still known as Palacio Sarmiento, they say among the people Palace Pizzurno to the side street where it is located, and which was named in 1940 by Pablo Pizzurno, the Argentine educator and founder of the primary education system in Argentina.