Gayle & Roberto Visit Sin Palace
September 24, 2005 | Filed Under Argentina |
The gorgeous classic Mediterranean-style mansion pictured is the Palacio San Jose, a treasured national monument and former home of President Justo Jose Urquiza. (It is also my dream house—well, perhaps four entire dream houses.) Some might consider it a Victorian Era palace of sin!
In the middle Entre Rios, of a now-backwater province that makes Kansas look like a downhill skier´s paradise, Urquiza decided to impress international visitors with an Argentine version of Versailles. So he constructed a gorgeous mansion, double anything else here, with all rooms opening up to one of two immense central patios with trees, fountains, and flowers. Then he added a stately personal chapel (with a secret balcony in case of bad hair days), stocked an enormous artificial lake, filled fancy wrought-iron aviaries, and designed extensive formal gardens. Of course servants’ quarters, blacksmith shop, stables, etc., completed the self-sufficient community within. […]
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