Palacio Barolo
I feel like I belong in a Dr. Seuss book - from here to there to everywhere, trying to check everything off our lists before we leave. Must do: Palacio Barolo, former tallest building in Buenos Aires with intense symbolic and literary architecture. Dante's Inferno is the inspiration for how the building what constructed and how the statutes were carved. There's even free mason symbols. A Friday evening we showed up and began our visitada guiada tour with a dapper tour guide. Unlike other tours we have taken, this one was quite excellent. We started in the lobby of the building... After a classic elevator ride, we landed in the next ring of Dante's Inferno. We went up as high as the elevator would go and then climbed six flight of stairs to the first lookout. If I hadn't been in love with Argentina yet, this view sealed the deal. Up we went one more flight and saw some old typewriters from the building and peered out the little window