It is not common for one of the many windows to have the Casa Rosada APPEAR TAPIED WITH HOLLING BRICKS. Notoriety charged this week when a video and several photographs began to circulate on social networks. It caused curiosity between those who pass, walk or in a vehicle, on the sidewalk that gives to Hipólito Yrigoyen street.
The mystery began to increase because none of the usual custodians claimed to know the reasons. The news went viral and speculation began mainly from the most critical sectors to the National Government. They conjectured that it was a maneuver of an official to hide, as a song of Joan Manuel Serrat“Dark intentions.” None of that happened. And the mystery was unveiled.
The wall appeared in that window of the first floor and was apparently exposed by a strong gust of wind that broke and opened the postigones that are seen from the outside and are usually closed.
Actually, in that sector a kind of false window operates that hides a wall adjacent to the outer media. The bricks are not new, what changed is that they were not seen from the street before. Behind that wall is one of the interior courtyards of the Government Houseknown as Patio del Aljibe.
On the official website of Casa Rosada they reported that “in plans of the 19th century This site already appeared ”, which was“ closed, roofed and subdivided into small offices for a long time ”, until its Restoration in 2017.
About Yrigoyen There are also openings that belong to Cabinet Headquarters. And in that place, also overlooking the Colón Plazathe dispatch of the executive cabinet vice head is located, José “Cochi” Rolandi. One of the first versions was that works had begun for their imminent transfer to other offices that belong to Leadershiplocated in an annex in the corner of South Diagonal and the Belgrano Avenue.
With the arrival of the libertarians to Balcarce 50 Some modifications were introduced in some rooms such as the one called “Women’s Hall”, which was renamed Hall of the Argentine Próceres By decision of the Secretary General of the Presidency, Karina Milei. There most of the members of the digital communication teams were installed. Even the glass of their doors were sheltered so that from the halls you cannot look inside.
Currently, although in several sectors of the historic building there are problems with masonry, revoque falls and moisture leaks, no reform plan or partial arrangements is in force.
In 2017 the then Secretary of the Presidency Fernando de Andreisduring the mandate of Mauricio Macriannounced a Master Plan of works in the Pink which was just finished during the government of Alberto Fernández. In the middle, in 2018, there was a complaint by the Peronist senator Oscar Parrillifor having removed a marble ladder from Carrara to locate an elevator instead.
He Patio del Aljibeon which is the Mystery windowis one of the two courtyards of the Pink that gives about Yrigoyen. On the ground floor is the Malvinaswhich has a source and a mural of great proportions of the islands that Great Britain usurped in 1833. “He was closed, roofed and subdivided into small offices for a long time. Rescued, after years of having lost its patio status, it was put in patrimonial value ”points out the official page of the Pink. A solid carrara marble broccal was located there with iron lift from the mid -nineteenth century from the former family stay Mariano Moreno. It also has an original 1903 bank, cast iron with naturalistic ornamentation and the polychrome national shield in its center.
