El Cervantes National Theater is in the downtown Buenos Aires, in Córdoba Avenue and Libertad Street. Is he only National Theater that Argentina has and it was declared National Historical-Artistic Monument.
It was built on the initiative of the marriage of Spanish actors María Guerrero and Fernando Díaz de Mendoza, who pledged their personal fortune to realize their dream, managing to involve Alfonso XIII, then King of Spain, and the wealthy porteños.
The work, designed in the Spanish Baroque style, by the architect Aranda y Repetto, was supervised by María Guerrero. The facade of the Cervantes reproduces that of the University of Alcalá de Henares. For its construction, materials and decoration elements were imported from Spain.
The theater was opened in 1921 with “La dama boba” by Lope de Vega, performed by María Guerrero. After being destroyed by fire it was rebuilt and reopened in 1968.
In 1926 the theater was purchased by the Argentine Government for the National Theater of Comedy. It currently has three rooms. The Maria Guerrero Room, Italian-style design and with a capacity for 860 spectators, the Orestes Caviglia Room, with 150 seats in a semicircle, and the Luisa Vehil RoomKnown as Golden Room, with a capacity of 120 seats and for multiple uses. In addition, the Tratro Cervantes National Institute of Theater Studies, Museum, Theater Archive and a Library specialized.
It is worth doing the guided tour with the theatrical show "Hidalgo Caballero shows you the Cervantes" to know its history.
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