Casapueblo Explained

Hotel Name:Casapueblo
Pushpin Map:Uruguay
Location:Maldonado, Punta Ballena (Whale Point)
Coordinates:-34.9031°N -55.0422°W
Opening Date:1960
Number Of Restaurants:1
Number Of Rooms:12
Number Of Suites:56

Casapueblo is a building constructed by the Uruguayan artist Carlos Páez Vilaró. It is located in Punta Ballena, 13km (08miles) from Punta del Este, Uruguay. Initially, it was the artist's summer home and workshop, and includes a museum, an art gallery, a cafeteria and a hotel in its facilities. It was the permanent residence of its creator, who worked and spent his last days there.[1] [2] [3]

History

Casapueblo began to be built in 1958 around a wooden box made with planks found on the coast, called La Pionera (The Pioneer), by Carlos Páez Vilaró. This box was his first atelier.[4] [5] Casapueblo was designed with a style that can be compared to the houses on the Mediterranean coast of Santorini, but the artist used to refer to the hornero's nest, a typical bird of Uruguay, when referring to this type of construction.[6] The building, which took 36 years to complete, has thirteen floors with terraces that allow an optimal views of the sunset over the waters of the Atlantic ocean.[7]

It houses a tribute to Carlos Miguel,[8] the artist's son and one of the sixteen survivors, all of whom were Uruguayan, of flight 571 of the Uruguayan Air Force plane crash, which crashed in the Andes on October 13, 1972.

Carlos Páez Vilaró has received some of the most important personalities from the cultural and political field, such as the writer Isabel Allende, the ambassador Mercedes Vicente, the sexologist Mariela Castro, the artist Vinícius de Moraes, among others.[9]

Construction

The building was built of whitewashed cement and stucco.[10] It was built in an artisanal way and without previous plans,[11] in the form of a maze,[6] does not have straight lines inside and the color white predominates. It was expanded and modified from year to year as a residence in "unpredictable ways".[12]

Accommodation

To 2020 the Casapueblo Hotel has 20 rooms and suites and 50 apartments, hot pool, sauna, bar, and restaurant.[13] [14] The high season is from December to February. The apartment hotel called Hotel Casapueblo or Club Hotel Casapueblo has a restaurant called Las Terrazas (The Terraces) that follows the style of the original construction.

Museum

In the main dome of Casapueblo are the museum and workshop, where one can see part of the work of the late painter, potter, sculptor, muralist, writer, composer and builder Carlos Páez Vilaró.[15] [16] It has four exhibition rooms: Nicolás Guillén Room, Pablo Picasso Room, Rafael Squirru Room, Sala José Gómez-Sicre, projection room, the Terrace of the Mermaid, the Mirador del Hipcampo (Hippocampus Lookout), the Taberna del Rayo Verde (Tavern of the Green Ray) cafeteria and a boutique. The museum can be visited every day from 10 am to 6 pm.

Every afternoon since 1994 the Sun Ceremony has been held on the museum's terraces. Minutes before sunset, the artist's voice from a recording, dedicates a poem to the sun to bid farewell to it.[17]

See also

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Carlos Paez Vilaró: un canto a la vida . https://archive.today/20140826215105/http://www.elobservador.com.uy/noticia/272460/carlos-paez-vilaro-un-canto-a-la-vida/ . dead . August 26, 2014 . . February 24, 2014 . March 20, 2014 . Spanish .
  2. Web site: Carlos Paez Vilaró: un canto a la vida. Sun Times. February 24, 2014. March 20, 2014. August 27, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140827103834/http://www.suntimes.com/news/obituaries/25814517-418/uruguayan-artist-son-among-survivors-in-alive-plane-crash.html. dead.
  3. Web site: A mi edad, pensás en los promedios . El País . March 20, 2013 . Spanish . September 9, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130909003341/http://www.elpais.com.uy/domingo/mi-edad-pensas-promedios.html . dead .
  4. http://casapueblo.com.uy/ Historia
  5. http://blog.mundopaseos.com/Uruguay/punta_del_este/20090226-192448-Hotel-Casa-Pueblo- Casapueblo – Hotel Casapueblo.
  6. Entrevista Carlos Vilaró. Carlos Vilaró Interview. August 24, 2012. March 18, 2014. Spanish.
  7. Web site: Una Arquitectura muy particular. Deco y Jardín. A very particular Architecture. April 23, 2014.
  8. Web site: Casapueblo, una escultura habitable. August 8, 2010. Spanish.
  9. Web site: Isabel Allende, de visita en Casapueblo. El País. September 2013. March 18, 2014. Spanish. March 18, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140318210154/http://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/isabel-allende-visita-casapueblo.html. dead.
  10. Web site: Foto de Casapueblo cautiva a miles de usuarios de Instagram. 2014. El País. Spanish. Photo of Casapueblo captivates thousands of Instagram users. March 20, 2014. March 21, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140321014227/http://www.elpais.com.uy/vida-actual/foto-casapueblo-causa-sensacion-instagram.html. dead.
  11. Web site: Fotos de Casapueblo. March 20, 2014. Spanish. https://web.archive.org/web/20140321023021/http://www.fotosdepuntadeleste.com/fotos-de-casapueblo/. March 21, 2014. dead.
  12. Web site: Fallece el artista plástico Carlos Páez Vilaró. El Mundo. March 21, 2014. Spanish. https://web.archive.org/web/20140322055824/http://eldiariodechihuahua.mx/notas.php?seccion=El_Mundo&f=2014%2F02%2F24&id=931cc2c957224cc9f849971839f080b6. March 22, 2014. dead.
  13. http://www.aluruguay.com/Shotelcasapueblo.htm Casapueblo – Hotel Casapueblo.
  14. https://web.archive.org/web/20091222153436/http://www.caribbeannewsdigital.com/es/noticias/30420/carlos_paez_vilaro_casapueblo_punta_ballena_uruguay Casapueblo, Punta Ballena, Uruguay (by José Carlos de Santiago).
  15. Web site: Falleció Carlos Páez Vilaró . El País . February 24, 2014 . Falleció Carlos Páez Vilaró . Spanish . February 24, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140224121922/http://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/fallecio-carlos-paez-vilaro.html . dead .
  16. Web site: Murió Carlos Páez Vilaró . February 24, 2014 . La Nación . February 24, 2014 . Spanish . March 1, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140301161422/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1666842-murio-carlos-paez-vilaro . dead .
  17. Web site: Carlos Páez Vilaró. La Ceremonia del Sol. March 17, 2014. Spanish. https://web.archive.org/web/20120203225704/http://carlospaezvilaro.com.uy/nuevo/museo-taller/. February 3, 2012. dead.

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