From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Paz Palace
Paz Palace
Swords and sabres
The former Paz Palace, today the Military Officers’ Association.
The Paz Palace is a former mansion in Buenos Aires, The association established a number of cultural entities.
Argentina, housing the Military Officers’ Association a
Association, The Officers’ Cultural Foundation, which administers the
social club maintained by the Argentine military. palace as a museum and hosts lectures, expositions and
concerts, is maintained in conjunction with the Catholic
University of Argentina. The palace also houses the Of-
Overview ficers’ Library, a small publishing house devoted to the
One of Buenos Aires’ most traditional social clubs, the translation of military texts from overseas, as well as
Military Officers’ Association was founded in 1881 by Ni- its own library, a collection of over 120,000 texts which
colás Levalle, a decorated officer in the Argentine Army serves as the primary resource for military history re-
who believed such a facility could help mitigate tensions search in Argentina.[2]
among the officer corps from Argentina’s then-fractious The National Museum of Armaments is also housed in
provinces. The club relocated to a palace facing San the Paz Palace. Argentina’s most important military mu-
Martín Plaza in 1938. The building was designed by seum, it was inaugurated in 1941 and includes 15 rooms
French architect Louis Sortais and built between 1902 where its collection is divided chronologically and by
and 1914 at the behest of José C. Paz, the proprietor of the country of origin. Its oldest pieces include a chain mail
city’s then-second most-circulated newspaper, La Pren- armor belonging to the Byzantine Emperor Comnenus (c.
sa. Built entirely with material imported for the purpose 1100), crossbows, maces, two-handed swords, flails and
from France, the palace stands near the eastern end of other weapons dating from the Crusades, and an arque-
Santa Fe Avenue, in the Retiro section of Buenos Aires.[1] buse used during the Battle of Aguere in Spain. The muse-
um also houses a large collection of banners and weapons
dating from the Argentine War of Independence, includ-
ing a locally-modified Mauser rifle prized at the time for
its durability, as well as a modern artillery section trac-
ing the development of the early machine gun during the
19th century.[2]
The library is reserved for the association’s members
and for researchers, though the military museum is open
to the public and the Paz Palace itself can be visited
through guided tours.[1]
External links and references
Military museum: Artillery • Círculo Militar (Spanish)
[1] ^ Frommer’s Review: Círculo Militar
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Paz Palace
[2] ^ El Círculo Militar: 100 años despues. Secretaría de
Información Pública, 1981.
Coordinates: 34°35′46″S 58°22′39″W / 34.59611°S
58.3775°W / -34.59611; -58.3775
Rifles dating from the Wars for Independence
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