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| address             = Junín 1930
| location_city       = [[Buenos Aires]]
| location_country    = Argentina
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| architect           = [[Juan Antonio Buschiazzo|Juan A. Buschiazzo]]
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The '''Centro Cultural Recoleta''' ({{langx|en|'''Recoleta Cultural Centre'''}}) is an exhibition and cultural events centre located in the ''[[barrios of Buenos Aires|barrio]]'' of [[Recoleta, Buenos Aires|Recoleta]], [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina.
It holds sculptures and exhibitions, as well as concerts and artistic presentations and workshops of diverse types.
in September/October 2006 it held the wildly successful [[onedotzero]] festival attracting over 20,000 people in 3 days for installations, live performances, screenings and music.

== History ==
[[file:Asilo de Mendigos (Buenos Aires).jpg|thumb|left|As a shelter for the homeless, circa 1880.]]
The building where the cultural centre is located was originally donated to the [[Franciscan]]s in 1716. The blueprints of the construction were drawn by [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] architects Juan Krauss and Juan Wolf, while the design of the [[façade]] and interiors are attributed to Andrés Blanqui.

The building, finished in 1732, is one of the oldest in the city. With the arrival of the [[May Revolution]] and the [[Declaration of Independence of Argentina|declaration of independence]] during the first part of the 19th century, the building changed purposes. [[Manuel Belgrano]] founded a drawing school there, and since the 1870s it served as a shelter for the destitute. [[Torcuato de Alvear]], first mayor of Buenos Aires, beautified Recoleta as well as the cultural centre; [[Juan Antonio Buschiazzo]] gave it an Italian style and created the chapel currently used as an auditorium.

The second important renovation took place around 1980 by [[Clorindo Testa]], [[Jacques Bedel]] and [[Luis Benedit]], when the building was planned as a cultural centre.

==Gallery==
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==External links==
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* {{official website}}

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[[Category:Art museums and galleries in Argentina|Recoleta, Centro Cultural]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Buenos Aires|Recoleta, Centro Cultural]]
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[[Category:Arts centres in Argentina]]