Sunday, July 19, 2009

Pink Palace

No photo tomorrow.

The Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires is known as the Pink Palace because of its color. President Domingo Sarmiento, who beautified the drab building with patios, gardens and wrought-iron grillwork, had the exterior painted pink reportedly in order to defuse political tensions by mixing the red and white colors of the country's opposing political parties.

Eva Peron made her famous speeches at this building from the balcony under the flag pole.

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