Reality check!!! We're not house-hunting. We're students. We don't want to settle down just yet; not in a country half a world away. We love California. We love our family and friends. Who knows, one day we may make an investment in Uruguay, but for now, we enjoy living and learning about our host country. It's good to know that many of you want to keep us close. Believe me, you are all close to our hearts wherever we are. =)
The pictures that you see in our previous post are indeed of a residence; one that is NOT for sale. Its the Palacio Pietracaprina, named for Roberto Pietracaprina who commissioned it, and is now the residence of the Ambassador of Brazil.
Construction began in 1913 in the Ciudad Novísima (the name given the section of Montevideo past what is now Bulevar Artigas) where there was more land available and few restrictions on the dimensions of the buildings. The period 1900-1930 (roughly speaking) were years of economic growth and expansion in Uruguay enabling people like Pietracaprina (I don't know what he did for a living, but he was at one time the president of the Uruguayan Automobile Club), Dr. Fernando Darnaud (whose residence is now the home of the Russian Ambassador), among others, to compete with one another by building ostentatious mansions.
Anyways, we spent the day seeing old mansions, taking walking tours along the streets of Pocitos led by architectural students, sitting in at a rehearsal at the Teatro Solis, strolling through General Garabaldi's home, listening to live music (one group a choir in the crypt of the Catedral de San Francisco de Asis, whose repertoire included "Music of the Night" from the Phantom of the Opera), watching a couple married for over 50-years dance tango together and enjoying every second, and then eating Mexican food at Lupita's for dinner.
It was quite a day as you can imagine.
2 Comments:
How was the Mexican food? Does GG recommend Lupita's? Remember, Tex-Mex is Southron food too...
That concert hall looks amazing. I would love to have that as a home theater. I'm glad for the "reality check". You two are always missed. AAA pays well over there. Maybe I should put in an application?
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