Museu Catavento

This guide to Museu Catavento in São Paulo follows the building's disguise: pointed arches and cloistered galleries that look like a fourteenth-century Tuscan fortress, wrapped around a cage of imported iron beams that architect Domiziano Rossi specified in 1910, when a metal-framed building was still a novelty here. It traces the thirteen years of construction, Rossi's death partway through the job, and colleague Felisberto Ranzini finishing the work and tiling the roof to make it look centuries older. The building finally opened on the twenty ninth of April, 1924, rising about fifty meters over a park.