travel42 Hotel Review: El Casco Art Hotel

El Casco Art Hotel travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

This hotel was originally built in the 1970s by an Austrian couple but closed in the mid-1990s. In 2000, a prominent art gallery in Buenos Aires purchased the property and spent five years renovating it. Its current iteration is filled with a valuable art collection of paintings, drawings and sculptures, mainly by famous Argentinian artists.

It's right on the lake front, 7 miles west of downtown Bariloche, a 15-20 minute drive along the sole lakeside road...