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Palacio Barolo
A landmark office building on Avenida de Mayo near Plaza del Congreso. It stood as Buenos Aires' tallest building for more than a decade until 1936. The building was designed to tell the story of Dante's most famous poem, The Divine Comedy.The building's foundations conform to the golden ratio. The skyscraper was constructed to house Dante's ashes; Barolo believed "that Europe had begun drifting toward collapse" and wanted to house them as far away as possible from the Continent
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