Palacio Barolo

Simone★★★★★★★★★★5.03 months ago

We did a guided tour and we loved every second! The guide was knowledgable (bring some cash for a tip as we forgot ours, but it’s so deserved!). The palace itself is the most insane physical representation of The Divine Comedy. You will be asked questions throughout to keep you interested. The cherry on top is the lighthouse at the end. We loved this trip. Won’t give too much away as it’s worth seeing for yourself!

Vittoria Morescalchi★★★★★★★★★★5.05 months ago

Beautiful building- make sure to book the guided tour (it’s bilingual English Spanish so very accessible). The story of the building is very interesting. Be aware that you will need to walk for approx 6 floors since elevators only bring you to floor 14 and there are 20 floors. Also if you are afraid of nights or claustrophobic might not be your best tour.

Kevin Perry★★★★★★★★★★4.05 months ago

A really neat tour of a Art Deco masterpiece. The Dante theming isn't very evident past the first floors, but there are still a million lovely Deco architectural details there. Roxy was an amazing tour guide, all the way up to the **very** toasty lighthouse at the very top of the tower. You have to climb some very narrow stairs that weren't meant for six-foot tall people to get to the very top, and the ones above the 14th floor are pretty narrow as well.

Marcelo Clerici-Arias★★★★★★★★★★5.05 months ago

Beautiful office building from 1923, at that point the tallest in South America. Eclectic architectural style. Design inspired on Dante’s Divine Comedy, with Hell at the bottom, Purgatory in the middle, and Paradise at the top. Amazing views of Buenos Aires from the top! The guided tour is very informative and entertaining. Highly recommended, particularly the last tour of the day, when you get to see the sunset. Three caveats: (1) If you are claustrophobic, you may experience problems with the small stairway in the top floors. One of the people in our tour even declined to get into the old elevator. (2) If you are afraid of heights, you’ll almost certainly have an episode when you get to the very top of the building, a glass-enclosed lighthouse where you sit on the glass windows. (3) The tour is a bit expensive. Plus foreigners pay more than locals.

Charlotte Elliott★★★★★★★★★★4.04 months ago

We were lucky to ask about a tour 5 minutes before it started and they still had tickets! It is in English and Spanish and you get to go right up to the top to the lighthouse! The history is amazing and how it was based on Dante’s inferno. You go up in the lifts to peer down on the entrance hall and then up again to walk up 6 flights of steps to the most amazing look out point! Up 2 more flights to the lighthouse (which was quite something being sat on the glass!). Then went to see how an office would have looked back when it was built - we ended the tour there as had seen enough. It was great!