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Teatro Colón

Before its current location, the Teatro Colón was located in the Plaza de Mayo, where it remained between the years 1857 and 1888. Towards the end of the 19th century, Argentina was undergoing a fundamental transformation that would determine its historical evolution. Indeed, since 1880, the Argentine government sought the modernization of the country through the design of a new agro-export model. This caused an exponential migratory wave that attracted, above all, Italians and Spaniards, who ended up becoming a very high percentage of the middle class and a captive market for opera, since this genre was very popular among Europeans, particularly the Italians. Architecturally, the Teatro Colón corresponds to the trend of eclecticism typical of the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, in which the architects Francesco Tamburini, Vittorio Meano and Jules Dormal took part. This building becomes a kind of "summary" of the European aesthetic history. For this reason, in this building you can see characteristic features of the Italian Renaissance, as well as German and French architecture. If you visit Buenos Aires don´t miss to visit this place.