Casa Argentina is a cultural institute run by the Cultural Office of the Argentine Embassy in Rome. It is based in a historic building of the 1920s in the center of Rome and is dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of Argentine culture, proposing itself as a center of aggregation and sharing for the Argentines in Italy. Casa Argentina, in addition to organizing meetings and events, designs contemporary art exhibitions, open to the public, dedicated to internationally renowned artists, often in collaboration with other foreign embassies. It also promotes Spanish language and literature courses and houses a library with 4000 texts in Spanish.