Palacio Falabella, Manor house in Providencia, Chile.
Palacio Falabella is a neo-Renaissance building at Pedro de Valdivia 963 in Providencia, with three upper floors plus a ground-level basement. Its windows carry Florentine-style mosaics by Italian artist Aristodemo Lattanzi Borghini, and the central hall has marble columns with bronze capitals and an oval stained-glass window. A large French rococo wooden lamp hangs beneath the second-floor skylight.
The palace was built in 1924 by architect Guillermo Mancelli for textile businessman Arnaldo Falabella. It marked a shift from continuous facade designs to standalone residential buildings in the neighborhood.
The Florentine-style window mosaics were made by Italian artist Aristodemo Lattanzi Borghini, and the central hall holds marble columns with bronze capitals. In the basement, the former smoking room carries quotations from the Quran in Persian. The building has housed the Providencia municipality since 1948.
The building sits at Pedro de Valdivia Avenue 963 and now operates as the headquarters of Providencia Municipality. It functions as an administrative center, so visitors should plan visits during normal business hours.
The basement smoking room is decorated with quotations from the Quran in Persian, a detail visitors rarely notice. The third-floor terrace gives an almost 360-degree view over the palace grounds.
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