The Latin Skyscraper

Spanish-language documentary exploring the mysteries surrounding the mythical Barolo Palace in Buenos Aires, built in 1923, and its creator, Italian architect Mario Palanti. Palanti's membership to a secret brotherhood once belonged to by famed Italian poet Dante calls into question the very purpose of the building's construction.

The film aims to establish how much truth there is in the connection between the Barolo Palace of Buenos Aires and Dante's The Divine Comedy. The director leads an investigation that moves in unsuspected directions, revealing that the eclectic architecture of the Barolo Palace was conceived as an illustrated model of the Dantesque cosmos as detailed in the Divine Comedy - as well as uncovering Masonic legions, secret symbolism, underground rivers, and a plan to rescue Dante's ashes from the war in Europe.

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