Pasaje Roverano, Eclectic architecture building on Avenida de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Pasaje Roverano is a building on Avenida de Mayo beside the Cabildo, in the Monserrat neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. It has a basement, a ground-floor shopping gallery with entrances on Avenida de Mayo and Hipólito Yrigoyen street, and seven upper floors of offices. The gallery holds twelve shops along its sides and four small stalls in the middle; stairs and a lift rise from its centre.
Originally built in 1878 by brothers Angel and Pascual Roverano, the building underwent complete reconstruction from 1912 to 1918 as part of the Avenida de Mayo development project. This major renovation fundamentally transformed its appearance and integrated it into the modern boulevard.
The passage's name comes from the Roverano brothers, Ángel and Pascual, who opened the first building here in 1878. Its well-kept period interior, including a barbershop that survived intact from the mid-20th century until 2021, has led film crews to use it as a set for stories set in past decades, among them La señal with Ricardo Darín.
Direct underground access connects the building to Peru station on Subway Line A, making arrival straightforward. This subway link is the most convenient way to reach the passage when exploring the city center.
The architect was Esteban Fermín Sanguinetti, not a French designer. A basement corridor, built with the 1918 building under a municipal resolution of 30 July 1915, links the passage directly to Perú station on Line A of the subway. The well-kept period interior, including a barbershop intact from the mid-20th century until 2021, has served as a film set, among them La señal with Ricardo Darín.
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