Palacio Fuentes, Beaux-Arts palace in central Rosario, Argentina.

Palacio Fuentes is a beaux-arts building at the corner of Santa Fe and Sarmiento streets in central Rosario, Argentina. The facades carry reliefs, sculptures, and large copper lanterns, while the interior holds shops, offices, and apartments spread across several floors.

Spanish immigrant Juan Fuentes Echeverria commissioned architect Juan Bautista Durand to design the building, which was completed between 1923 and 1927. It was built as a visible sign of the success its owner had achieved through trade and agriculture in Argentina.

The building's name comes from Juan Fuentes Echeverría, the Spanish immigrant who commissioned it. The main bronze gates, cast in Greece, carry chiselled busts of Fuentes, the architect Durand and the builder Ferrarese, along with reliefs of the Seasons, the Muses and a Native Argentine figure. All the inscriptions on the gates are in Greek.

The ground floor and mezzanine are accessible through an ornate brass entrance gate, while the upper floors have their own separate entrances. A visit works best during the day, when the shops are open and the building can be seen in full activity.

The building's clock tower is topped by a 195-foot lightning rod forged from Juan Fuentes's own plow share, a nod to the scrap-metal cart and farming fortune behind the palace. Life-sized marble statues of Venus, Aphrodite and Apollo guard the clock below it.