Fogón de los Arrieros

Bohemian cultural centre that turned Resistencia into the City of Sculptures

Address Brown 350, Resistencia

The Fogón de los Arrieros — "the fire of the muleteers" — is the cultural centre that turned Resistencia from a provincial Chaco capital into the City of Sculptures. Founded in 1943 by writers, painters and architects, it grew into a peripatetic salon and a bohemian club: a place where artists from across Argentina stopped, drank, exchanged work and gradually filled the rooms with art.

Today the Fogón is a working cultural space and an unofficial museum: a labyrinth of small rooms, a courtyard, a library, and walls hung with paintings by Lino Spilimbergo, Juan Carlos Castagnino and others, sculptures by Aurelio Macchi and a stained-glass ceiling. Free entry, casual hours, very Argentine.

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A story
Founded in 1943 by a group of intellectuals around the writer Aldo Boglietti, the Fogón rejected the idea that art belonged in a museum. Members would gather, drink, argue, and over time persuade visiting sculptors to leave a work behind. The pieces grew into a permanent collection — and then spilled out of the building and onto Resistencia's streets, where they remain.

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