casa rosada

Photographer: amy caroline holste
From: besos de buenos aires

casa rosada

the presidential palace (not residence), whose balconies were used as soapboxes for many a dictator and most well know, the peron's (and madonna. also interesting, the rosy hue is from the 1800's when it was traditional to add ox blood to whitewash to provide colour and thicken the mix. eew!