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Hotel Castelar
Hotel Castelar was a hotel located at the northwest intersection of May and 9th of July Avenues, in the downtown Montserrat section of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It operated from 90 years, closing in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Opened in 1928 as the Hotel Excelsior, the building was designed by Italian architect Mario Palanti and built by local engineer José Pinzone. The Spanish poet and dramatist, Federico García Lorca, stayed here from October 1933 to March 1934 while his play, ''Bodas de Sangre'', was being performed at the Avenida Theatre nearby; his erstwhile room has been preserved as a museum. More recently, the hotel was the site of Vice President Carlos Álvarez's dramatic, October 6, 2000, resignation, a milestone helping lead to President Fernando de la Rúa's own departure a year later. The Hotel in film Many movies were filmed inside the hotel. * 1986 Poor Butterfly * 1988 Peculiar Attraction * 1999 Claim, with Billy Zane * 2001 Gallito Ciego wi ...
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Hotel Castelar 2008 Buenos Aires
A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a refrigerator and other kitchen facilities, upholstered chairs, a flat screen television, and en-suite bathrooms. Small, lower-priced hotels may offer only the most basic guest services and facilities. Larger, higher-priced hotels may provide additional guest facilities such as a swimming pool, business centre (with computers, printers, and other office equipment), childcare, conference and event facilities, tennis or basketball courts, gymnasium, restaurants, day spa, and social function services. Hotel rooms are usually numbered (or named in some smaller hotels and B&Bs) to allow guests to identify their room. Some boutique, high-end hotels have custom decorated rooms. Some hotels offer meals as part of a room and board arrangement. In Jap ...
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Poor Butterfly (film)
''Poor Butterfly'' ( es, Pobre mariposa) is a 1986 Argentine drama film directed by Raúl de la Torre. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Graciela Borges as Clara * Lautaro Murúa * Pepe Soriano as Shloime * Víctor Laplace as Jose * Bibi Andersson as Gertrud * Duilio Marzio * Cipe Lincovsky as Juana * Fernando Fernán Gómez * Ana María Picchio as Irma * China Zorrilla * Cacho Fontana Jorge "Cacho" Fontana (born Norberto Palese Filgueiras; 23 April 1932 – 5 July 2022) was an Argentine radio and television personality. Life and work Born Norberto Palese in the Barracas section of Buenos Aires, he was the only child of Nie ... References External links * 1986 films 1986 drama films Films directed by Raúl de la Torre Argentine drama films 1980s Spanish-language films 1980s Argentine films {{1980s-Argentina-film-stub ...
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Biographical Museums In Argentina
A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of their life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality. Biographical works are usually non-fiction, but fiction can also be used to portray a person's life. One in-depth form of biographical coverage is called legacy writing. Works in diverse media, from literature to film, form the genre known as biography. An authorized biography is written with the permission, cooperation, and at times, participation of a subject or a subject's heirs. An autobiography is written by the person themselves, sometimes with the assistance of a collaborator or ghostwriter. History At first, biogra ...
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Literary Museums In Argentina
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment, and can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role. Literature, as an art form, can also include works in various non-fiction genres, such as biography, diaries, memoir, letters, and the essay. Within its broad definition, literature includes non-fictional books, articles or other printed information on a particular subject.''OED'' Etymologically, the term derives from Latin ''literatura/litteratura'' "learning, a writing, grammar," originally "writing formed with letters," from ''litera/littera'' "letter". In spite of this, the term has also been applied to spoken or ...
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Museums In Buenos Aires
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these items available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. The largest museums are located in major cities throughout the world, while thousands of local museums exist in smaller cities, towns, and rural areas. Museums have varying aims, ranging from the conservation and documentation of their collection, serving researchers and specialists, to catering to the general public. The goal of serving researchers is not only scientific, but intended to serve the general public. There are many types of museums, including art museums, natural history museums, science museums, war museums, and children's museums. According to the International Council of Museums (ICOM), there are more than 55,000 museums in 202 countries ...
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Hotel Buildings Completed In 1928
A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a refrigerator and other kitchen facilities, upholstered chairs, a flat screen television, and en-suite bathrooms. Small, lower-priced hotels may offer only the most basic guest services and facilities. Larger, higher-priced hotels may provide additional guest facilities such as a swimming pool, business centre (with computers, printers, and other office equipment), childcare, conference and event facilities, tennis or basketball courts, gymnasium, restaurants, day spa, and social function services. Hotel rooms are usually numbered (or named in some smaller hotels and B&Bs) to allow guests to identify their room. Some boutique, high-end hotels have custom decorated rooms. Some hotels offer meals as part of a room and board arrangement. In Jap ...
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Tourist Attractions In Buenos Aires
Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure and not less than 24 hours, business and other purposes". Tourism can be domestic (within the traveller's own country) or international, and international tourism has both incoming and outgoing implications on a country's balance of payments. Tourism numbers declined as a result of a strong economic slowdown (the late-2000s recession) between the second half of 2008 and the end of 2009, and in consequence of the outbreak of the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, but slowly recovered until the COVID-19 p ...
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Hotels In Buenos Aires
A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a refrigerator and other kitchen facilities, upholstered chairs, a flat screen television, and en-suite bathrooms. Small, lower-priced hotels may offer only the most basic guest services and facilities. Larger, higher-priced hotels may provide additional guest facilities such as a swimming pool, business centre (with computers, printers, and other office equipment), childcare, conference and event facilities, tennis or basketball courts, gymnasium, restaurants, day spa, and social function services. Hotel rooms are usually numbered (or named in some smaller hotels and B&Bs) to allow guests to identify their room. Some boutique, high-end hotels have custom decorated rooms. Some hotels offer meals as part of a room and board arrangement. In Jap ...
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Rodrigo De La Serna
Lionel Rodrigo de la Serna (; born 18 April 1976) is an Argentine actor. He is known for playing Alberto Granado in the 2004 biopic '' The Motorcycle Diaries'' and Palermo in the Netflix series '' Money Heist''. His role in '' Money Heist'' as Martín Berrote (Palermo) is widely regarded as one of the best characters in the show by the fans. Career De la Serna started his career in several smaller productions like ''Same Love, Same Rain'' and '' Nuts for Love''. In 2000, he portrayed Ricardo Riganti in the Canal 7 series '' Okupas'', now considered an Argentine cult classic. In 2004 starred in the biopic ''The Motorcycle Diaries'' for which he won a Silver Condor award for best actor, an Independent Spirit Award for "Best Debut Performance" and earned him a nomination for a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. He played the role of Alberto Granado, the travelling companion of Che Guevara during their 8-month long journey through South America. Over the years he has starr ...
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Billy Zane
William George Zane Jr. (born February 24, 1966) is an American actor. His breakthrough role was in the 1989 Australian film ''Dead Calm'', a performance that earned him a nomination for the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Actor. He has since appeared in numerous films and television series, notably playing Caledon Hockley in the epic romance disaster film ''Titanic'' (1997), for which he was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. Zane's other film roles include Kit Walker / The Phantom in the superhero film ''The Phantom'' (1996), "Match" in the ''Back to the Future'' franchise, Lieutenant Val Kozlowski in '' Memphis Belle'' (1990), The Collector in ''Demon Knight'' (1995), Curtis Zampf in '' The Believer'' (2001), and Richard Miller in the ''Sniper'' film series. He also played the recurring role of John Justice Wheeler in the second season of the TV series ''Twin Peaks'', and provided the voice of Ansem in the video game ''Kingdom Hearts'' (2 ...
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Peculiar Attraction
''Peculiar Attraction'' ( es, Atracción peculiar) is a 1988 Argentine film directed by Enrique Carreras. Starring Alberto Olmedo and Jorge Porcel. This film, shot during the 1987/88 season in Mar del Plata, was the last one made by Alberto Olmedo. It was released on March 3, 1988. Two days later, on March 5, the actor tragically died in Mar del Plata. Plot Jorge Trolombatti (Porcel) is employed by ''Tevelunga'' magazine. The editorial director proposes writing an article about the influx of transvestites during the summer in Mar del Plata. In order to accomplish this, he recruits Alberto (Olmedo), a flamboyant photographer. The plan is for the two of them to blend in with the scene discreetly and create the most captivating article of the season. Although Jorge initially wants no part in this scheme, he is eventually coerced by his boss and reluctantly agrees. Unbeknownst to Jorge and Alberto, two other colleagues from the same magazine are sent to keep an eye on their work ...
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Fernando De La Rúa
Fernando de la Rúa (15 September 19379 July 2019) was an Argentine politician and a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) political party who served as President of Argentina from 10 December 1999 to 21 December 2001. De la Rúa was born in Córdoba; he entered politics after graduating with a degree in law. He was elected senator in 1973 and unsuccessfully ran for the office of Vice President as Ricardo Balbín's running mate the same year. He was re-elected senator in 1983 and 1993, and as deputy in 1991. He unsuccessfully opposed the pact of Olivos between President Carlos Menem and party leader Raúl Alfonsín, which enabled the 1994 amendment of the Argentine Constitution and the re-election of Menem in 1995. De la Rúa was the first chief of government of Buenos Aires to be elected by popular vote, a change introduced by the amendment of the Constitution. He expanded the Buenos Aires Underground, adding new stations to Line D, starting the expansion of Line B, and est ...
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