The Argentina Lounge

The Argentina Room of the city of Buenos Aires, worked in the building that later became known as the Palacio Rodríguez Peña. Today it is called Palacio Argentina, and was successively concert hall, opera, jazz and stage tango dances, and hall for social events.

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The building is located on Rodríguez Peña Street, 50 meters from Corrientes Avenue, and was built in 1901 by the architect Juan Manzini in both the setting and decoration, which included a bronze spider of 105 lights that still conserved, were in charge of Felix Boggio. Initially it was the headquarters of the Philanthropic Society of Argentina, later converted into Mutual Association and was the space for the social meetings of its affiliates. In the decade of 1910, taking advantage of its excellent acoustics (at that time it counted on an oak floor of Slavonia), the group rented the halls for concerts of chamber music, among whose organizers was Carmelo D'Amico, that also, touched all on Saturdays with his orchestra. In the decade of 1930 the first tango dance was organized by the students of the Faculty of Medicine and in the 1940s the hall was dedicated to tango dances that had an assiduous attendance with a particularity: the brawls did not occur there between compadritos nor the frequent malevaje in other halls. The use of the classroom for tango classes - taught by maestro Juan Carlos Copes, for example - dances and social events of all kinds, including political acts, continued until 2001 when it closed its doors. It reopened in March 2004, when the tango house Central Tango began to operate and since 2011, dedicated to social events, took the name of El Palacio Eventos. In 2014, it was renamed Palacio La Argentina, a fusion of the names by which it was known for many years, to establish itself as a theatrical space with the presentation of great musicals, opera, jazz concerts, great bands, tango, etc. Bibliography

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