Wednesday 7 February 2007
Ryan and I both had the morning off, so we decided to do a little sight-seeing. Our destination was the Palacio de Aguas Corrientes (Palace of Running Water), the waterworks of Buenos Aires. It was finished in 1895, and the outside was designed as a beautiful building, architecturally, to fit in with the gorgeous old houses around it. Inside, however, it is just one big ugly room with tanks and pipes and whatnot. We're not exactly sure if it is still functioning as a waterworks, but it definitely still houses the offices, as there were lots of people there to pay their bills.
On the second floor is a small museum full of old taps and faucets and toilets, the old blueprints of the building, and some other old-fashioned knick-knacks. They had a whole room full of old toilets, in fact.
Ryan and I both had the morning off, so we decided to do a little sight-seeing. Our destination was the Palacio de Aguas Corrientes (Palace of Running Water), the waterworks of Buenos Aires. It was finished in 1895, and the outside was designed as a beautiful building, architecturally, to fit in with the gorgeous old houses around it. Inside, however, it is just one big ugly room with tanks and pipes and whatnot. We're not exactly sure if it is still functioning as a waterworks, but it definitely still houses the offices, as there were lots of people there to pay their bills.
On the second floor is a small museum full of old taps and faucets and toilets, the old blueprints of the building, and some other old-fashioned knick-knacks. They had a whole room full of old toilets, in fact.
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