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"Great is the power of memory that dwells in places." (from Cicero)

Villa Argentina

Villa Argentina is reminiscent of a 23-metre high, 10-metre-wide high altar built for a church in Cordoba (Argentina) between 1918 and 1920. In charge of construction of the altar - the largest ever built in Val Gardena - was Josef Stuflesser (Bera Pepi de Petlin), who took over the ecclesiastical art academy in J.B. Purger Street after the First World War. Stuflesser bought this house with the proceeds of the Cordoba work and moved his office and residence here.