Avenida Callao

Three blocks north, the avenue passes by the Bauen Hotel, a modernist highrise that garnered international attention following an employee takeover in the aftermath of its 2001 closure.

[1] A block on, Rodríguez Peña Plaza provides needed parkland space along one of the city's most-densely populated areas.

The plaza is notable for the Pizzurno Palace facing it (the Ministry of Education) and Luisa Isella de Motteau's Thirst, her realist sculpture completed in 1914.

A distinctly rounded Art Deco apartment building designed by Francisco Salamone stands on the southwest corner of the avenue and Pacheco de Melo Street.

The twenty-block avenue is not only a commuter artery, it also features a concentration of belle époque architecture, much of which has been lost to development since the 1950s.

View of Avenida Callao from the north.
Luisa Isella de Motteau's
Thirst (1914).
Location of Avenida Callao in Buenos Aires .