Museo Larreta, Spanish art museum in Belgrano, Argentina.
The Museo Larreta is an art museum in the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires, housed in a mansion built in a neo-Spanish colonial style and displaying works from the medieval period through the early modern era. The rooms are furnished with original pieces that show how paintings, sculptures and decorative objects were arranged in a private home setting.
The building was the private home of Enrique Larreta, an Argentine writer and diplomat who lived in Europe in the early 20th century and assembled his collection of Spanish art there. After his death, the house was handed over to the city of Buenos Aires and opened as a public museum in the 1960s.
The museum takes its name from Enrique Larreta, an Argentine writer and collector whose deep connection to Spain shaped every corner of the house. Walking through the rooms today, visitors can see how his personal taste was expressed through the furniture, paintings and objects he chose to live with.
The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, with free entry on certain days of the week, so it is worth checking the current schedule before you go. Arriving in the morning gives you more time to explore both the interior rooms and the garden at a relaxed pace.
At the back of the property, an Andalusian garden laid out with trimmed hedges and rare trees goes largely unnoticed by visitors who focus on the interior collection. The garden was designed to recall the gardens of Moorish Spain, making it one of the few spaces of this kind in Buenos Aires.
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