The marble, bronze and stained-glass hall of an 1878 building remodelled for Avenida de Mayo (final form 1918). It is the only building in South America with its own direct access to the subte, down to Perú station of line A; a young Jorge Bergoglio had his barber here.
- Address
- Av. de Mayo 560 to Hipólito Yrigoyen, next to the Cabildo
- Hours
- Public street, always open
- Best time to go
- Morning, Afternoon · About 20 min
- Price
- Free
- Price level
- $
Details can change. Check hours and prices before you go.
Good to know
- Take the stairs from the ground floor down to the line A platform.
- Saint-Exupéry worked in an airline office upstairs in the 1930s (Infobae 2025).