Museo Larreta

This guide to Museo Larreta in Buenos Aires follows novelist Enrique Larreta, whose 1908 book The Glory of Don Ramiro imagined the Spain of Philip II so vividly that he set out to live inside it, rebuilding his own house in Buenos Aires around that fantasy. You'll hear about the objects he filled it with, Renaissance armor, sixteenth-century textiles, a garden shaped around an Andalusian portico, and the family who first owned the house before him. Listen for the enormous ombu tree his son planted in the garden.