- Villa Ocampo
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Villa Ocampo is the house of
Victoria Ocampo (1890 – 1979), one ofLatin American 's greatest cultural figures, founder and director of "Sur" magazine. The house is located in San Isidro, in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires, approximately 30 km north of the city ofBuenos Aires .Originally the summer house of the Ocampo family, it became Victoria Ocampo's permanent residence in 1940. The house is famous for its list of distinguished visitors who came to Argentina invited by Victoria:
Rabindranath Tagore ,Igor Stravinsky ,Le Corbusier ,Albert Camus ,Graham Greene ,Federico García Lorca ,André Malraux ,José Ortega y Gasset ,Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ,Saint-John Perse (Alexis Léger) among many others. Villa Ocampo was also a regular meeting place for Argentine writers, among themJorge Luis Borges andAdolfo Bioy Casares , who met there for the first time in 1931.The Villa was built in 1891 by Manuel Ocampo, Victoria’s father. Its architecture is eclectic, combining influences of British and French origin. The house is surrounded by a 11,000 m² historical garden and hosts an important collection of art, furnishings and a library of 12,000 books, photographs, letters and personal papers of Victoria Ocampo.
The house has been owned by
UNESCO since 1973. It was fully restored in 2003 and is now a cultural center open to the public.External links
* [http://www.villaocampo.org/ UNESCO Villa Ocampo official website]
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