Teatro Colon

Owner of a acoustics of reference in the world, unequivocal index of consecration and mentions inescapable of those who love music, Columbus has been from always a theater venerated by the public and the greatest artists. Deposit taker of one releases begun Argentine musical tradition in century XVIII, was inaugurated the 25 of May of 1908 with “Aida”, Giuseppe Verdi, after having been in construction during almost twenty years. The successive architects who had to their position the imposing work (Francesco Tamburini, Vittorio Meano and Jules Dormal) conciliated in their design as dissimilar styles as attic-Greek, that predominates in the outside, and - in words of Meano- “the general characters of the Italian Renaissance, the good own distribution and the solidity of the German architecture, and the grace, variety and gallantry of ornamentación associated to the French architecture”, until conforming an admirable unit of “the eclectic” style of century XIX. Strictly speaking, the urban meaning of Columbus exceeds the frame a theater to appear, along with the Palace of Congress and the Pink House, between more representative historical monuments of the Argentine Republic.