Museum
Block of the Lights Historical-Cultural Complex
Perú 222, C1067 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Colonial block of a Jesuit church, courtyard, and tunnels once tied to the city's earliest schools.
This guide to the Block of the Lights Historical-Cultural Complex in Buenos Aires begins with the Ranchería, Buenos Aires' first theatre, built in 1783 on this very corner and burned down in a single night in 1792 during a Saint John's festival. It follows the fire's toll on Siripo, the city's first homegrown tragedy written by Manuel José de Lavardén, and the twelve years the city went without a theatre afterward. Stand at the corner of Perú and Alsina, where the motto once read: comedy is the mirror of life.
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