palacio salvo

This building is the most recognized landmark is Monteviideo with a prime location on Plaza Independencia. We rented an apartment in the building for a month. The apartment as great, but the common areas on the residential floors could use a little work.They conduct tours of the building (in Spanish only) on Tuesday and Thursday that show some of the very impressive design elements of the building and take you up the the 10th and 11th floors for great views of the city. We found it worthwhile even though our limited Spanish didn't enable us to understand much of the narration.

This is one of the hidden secrets of Montevideo. I unlocked it and am sharing it with you. Go to plaza de la Democracia at the far end South of 18 de Julio Avenue. Spot the large building to your left, it is called the Palacio Salvo. Go through the mezzanine and ask to be left into the second floor into the Pool Hall where you can get in by showing your ID. Say you found the place online.Once in enjoy the 8 tables and small bar available to you.

You can't visit Plaza de la Independencia without enjoying the magical view of Palacio Salvo, a gorgeous historical structure.This building deserves a place in your camera. Take as many snapshots are you please and enjoy.

The building was closed so I was unable to visit. The is promise that they will open a mirador on this building.

In December 2014 we took a tour of the building. At that time, the tour was offered on Mondays and Thursdays at 4:00, for about $7 a person. If you are interested, you should stop by the lobby where information on the tour is posted, to see what the current schedule is. The tour is completely in the Spanish language, and although it it said to last 90 minutes, we actually left the cupola after more than two hours. If you do not speak Spanish, like me, the first hour and a quarter or so are very dull. The group spent an hour in the lobby, then out in the archway looking at the columns, then walking through the passageway and around the building. If they stick to this schedule, and you are not a Spanish speaker, you could buy the ticket. then sit at the cafe and have a drink until the group heads inside the building. Once inside we saw the original entrance to the theater in the basement, now a parking garage, then went up to the next level, once a dance hall and now desecrated with lowered ceilings and particle board dividers for offices. There is what was once a beautiful stained glass mural on the stairway. The next floor up is in even worse condition, and has a squalid billiard hall. We then went to the tenth floor and walked through the hallways out onto the roof area below the tower portion. The inside is pretty much a slum at this point. Many of the apartments are only one small room, as the building was originally intended to be a hotel. There are lots of wires snaking through the hallway, and in general the place is in terrible condition. There are two courtyards, from which people hang laundry. From this level there are great views of the tower, and out over the city. Next we went up to the cupola, and crammed into a small part of it set aside for viewing. The view from there, of course, was wonderful. The faded grandeur of this weird and beautiful building is a fascinating sight. This tour is not for people with fear of heights or claustrophobia (elevators are quite small and the group crams into them). The first hour and a quarter was really boring for this non-Spanish speaker, but the rest of the tour made up for it. If I had it to do over again, knowing what I know now, I would first try to do this tour on my own - just enter the lobby and take the elevator to the tenth floor, then to the twenty-third floor (and climb up two more levels to the cupola). I don't know if this is permitted or not, but it is worth a try. On the other hand, if you understand Spanish, you might also learn a lot from the tour. Climbing stairs is unavoidable. Photos from the tour are attached.

this is a building that reminds me of old buildings of Chicago. Designed by an italian architect it has a copy of it in Buenos Aires. Just for a photo .

An impressive example of art-decó arquitecture in Montevideo. Great place for pictures and to take a snak in the small coffee shops nearby.

This wonderful representation of art deco has become the architectural icon of Montevideo. From so many areas around the city The Palacio Salvo occupies the skyline. Setting at the end of the Plaza Indepencia it stands as a Cornerstone to the Plaza.

This building is imponent and is the only one that differs from the rest. So Id say nostalgic and beautiful.

Great location facing Plaza Independencia...but it seems that the city officials have abandoned this historic building, like others in Montevideo.

Standing in Plaza Independencia you can not overlook this amazing structure whose towering presence seems to have been transported to Montevideo out of Batman's Gotham. Not exactly beautiful but awe-inspiring because of its sheer outrageousness and weirdness.

This is probably the most well known landmark in Montevideo. I don't know of a way to take a tour of the inside of the building, but it is an interesting sight to see from the Plaza Independencia. If you really want to experience the rocket ship from the inside, a few people rent out apartments in the building for the short term.

The Palacio Salvo stands in central Montevideo, close to Plaza de la Independencia and Avenida 18 de Julio, the most representative of the downtown arteries. Opened in 1928, built by the Italian architect Mario Palanti in Art Deco style. has at its "twin" in Buenos Aires, Palacio Barolo built some years earlier and somewhat higher, the same style. both inspired by the Divine Comedy. Visit it is a trip to the past aquitectura: so many balconies undulate in height, some other curved straight, some others excelled at construction plane full of reliefs and ornaments. invited to be photographed, observed from different points. invited to enter, through the arcades facing the street and into the lobby where a sample of photos of other buildings contemporary with this, or earlier or later epochs used to compare styles, heights, locations of emplaced. The palace is partly damaged and is full of defenders that drive recycling. It deserves!! Impossible not to visit, as part of the history of a city that thrives showed very far from Europe or North America. No doubt Montevideo is returning to those times!!!

This is a fantastic building, and the best pictures can be taken from Plaza Independencia. It can also be visited to the top of its tower portion, but only during a certain period of the year, which I am not sure at time of review what that may be. It is a fine example of the diverse and eclectic architecture Montevideo displays. A palace built in a prosperous time, a fine era gone by. Buenos Aires has a similar one, with similar or same tower, built by the same Italian Architect. It is called Palacio Barolo.

After browsing some of the reviews earlier submitted I find ire within these old bones.Imagine putting the word 'ugly' when referring to this marvelous structure.I guess it takes a bit of AGE to really appreciate a ,simple put,work of art.I had gazed skyward in 1954 at this magnificent struture.A young man of 17 in the company of my parents on our journey to the US from our previous home in Buenos Aires.My feelings were rekindled again in 2012 on a short visit to wonderful Montivedao.Wonderful and majestic my thoughts about this credit to engineering.The skill it took to raise slowly the top most section is simply amazing.Oh and let us not forget that in 1917 the greatest tango was composed at La Girada cafe (a location that really should have been preserved in it's entierty)Oh well.As they say"you can't have everything".To give this attraction a thumbs up review I will only state this.Before this old Argentine's bones weaken and falter,I wish again to stand and ponder at PALACIO SALVO.The great and proud achievment that the people of Uruguay once boasted of loudly with good reason.Shall we tango?Visit.You will FEEL the music.