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green slate from Sedan in
France, and marble from Azúl in
the Buenos Aires province. Tall
palm trees add to the tropical
exuberance of the building,
which is deco rated with
the shields of the various
Argentinian provinces. The
Palacio once housed the head-
quarters of Aguas Argentinas,
the firm that evolved out of the
old state-run water board
during privat ization under
President Menem’s gover nment
The Sala Martín Coronado auditorium at Teatro San Martín in the 1980s and 1990s.
Housed within the building
a Teatro a completely separate cultural is the unusual Museo del
San Martín center, with its own main Agua y de la Historia Sanitaria,
entrance on Calle Sarmiento. which explains the history of
Ave Corrientes 1530. City Map 2 This center is often used by water sanitation in Argentina
C4. Tel (0800) 333-5254, (011) emerging musical artists and and the world.
4374-1385 (guided tours).
 Uruguay. Open box office: 10am− aspiring photographers to
10pm daily. 8 noon Tue–Fri. showcase their talents to
∑ complejoteatral.gob.ar the mainstream.
Centro Cultural San Martín: Tel (011)
4374-1251. Open 8am–10pm. s Palacio de las
Built in the 1950s, this state- Aguas Corrientes
sponsored arts complex used Ave Córdoba 1950. City Map 2 C4.
reinforced concrete in the  Callao, Facultad de Medicina.
functional, boxlike style popular Museo del Agua y de la Historia
at the time. It houses a 1,100- Sanitaria: Tel (011) 6319-1104.
seat theater, two smaller Open 9am–1pm Mon–Fri.
theaters, a cinema, and a 8 11am Mon.
photograph gallery. World-class
and top-notch local theater The Palacio de las Aguas Brightly lit exhibits on display in Museo
companies and major Corrientes (Palace of Running Casa Rosada
photographic exhibi tions fill Water), built between 1887
a busy schedule, while the and 1895, is an ostentatious d Museo Casa
cinema specializes in art-house celebration of civic pride and Rosada
retrospectives and screens eclectic vitality. Located down
daring, often obscure archival Avenida Córdoba, the Palacio Entrance on Hipólito Yrigoyen &
material. The huge lobby is is the road’s most stunning Paseo Colón. City Map 3 E5. Tel (011)
often given over to free dance building. Terracotta tiles were 4344-3802. @ 8, 17, 29, 33, 39, 64, 74,
93, 111,130, 152. Open Apr–Nov:
shows in the evenings and is a imported from Leeds in Britain, 10am–6pm Wed–Sun & hols; Dec–
meeting place for students and Mar: 11am–9pm Wed–Sun & hols. 8
art-lovers from all over the city. - ∑ casarosada.gob.ar/la-casa-
Over the past few decades, rosada/museo
Avenida Corrientes has lost
many of its bookshops and is no Located within the grounds of
longer quite the Broadway of Casa Rosada in the former Taylor
Buenos Aires it used to be. This Customs building, this museum
throws into sharper relief the commemo rates 200 years of
importance of the Teatro San Argentina’s independence, which
Martín as a well-funded, censor- was celebrated in 2010. It was
free milieu for cutting-edge inaugurated by President
artists. Two companies – the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
Contemporary Ballet and the The museum, which still
Puppeteers Group – are based has its original red-brick walls,
permanently at the theater. exhibits paintings, personal
At the rear of the lobby it is items, and official possessions
possible to walk through to the that belonged to former
Centro Cultural San Martín, The vivid façade of the striking Palacio de Argentine presidents such as
which is, rather confusingly, las Aguas Corrientes Juan Domingo Perón and his
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