Hotel Castelar was a hotel located at the northwest intersection of

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and 9th of July Avenues, in the downtown

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section of

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. 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

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and built by local engineer José Pinzone. The Spanish poet and dramatist,

Federico García Lorca Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca ( ), was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblemat ...

, stayed here from October 1933 to March 1934 while his play, ''

Bodas de Sangre ''Blood Wedding'' ( es, link=no, Bodas de sangre) is a tragedy by Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. It was written in 1932 and first performed at Teatro Beatriz in Madrid in March 1933, then later that year in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...

'', was being performed at the

Avenida Theatre The Avenida Theatre (''Teatro Avenida'') is a theatre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Overview The Avenida Theatre was inaugurated on Buenos Aires' central Avenida de Mayo in 1908 with a production of Spanish dramatist Lope de Vega's ''Justice Wit ...

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 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 ...

's own departure a year later.''Clarín'' (October 7, 2000)
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The Hotel in film

Many movies were filmed inside the hotel. * 1986

Poor Butterfly "Poor Butterfly" is a popular song. It was inspired by Giacomo Puccini's opera ''Madame Butterfly'' and contains a brief musical quote from the Act two duet ''Tutti i fior'' in the verse. The music was written by Raymond Hubbell, the lyrics by ...

* 1988

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 Ol ...

* 1999 Claim, with

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 Promi ...

* 2001 Gallito Ciego with

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 ...

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