Home | Site map | Search | Blog | Forum | About Us | Contact Us | Tours | Shop

Start your trip here | General Info | What to see | What to do | Where to Stay | Multimedia
 

Recoleta Neighborhood - Buenos Aires, Argentina
 

It is one of the most tourist neighborhoods in the city, linked to the high classes, it possesses a high populational density, almost without low houses. It has a great number of traditional estates of beginnings of the XX century where the families of the oligarchy lived, now transformed in embassies or museums. Their more characteristic space is the one thatis next to the traditional cemetery of the Recoleta, very rich in art samples and history, since in

Recoleta - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Click on the Image to enlarge

their many luxurious tombs and other not so much, they are some of the most important personalitiesin the Argentinean  history, as Guillermo Brown, Dorrego or Evita. To their entrance it is the Plaza Alvear, cultural nucleus in which the weekends are formed an important fair of crafts and many street shows.  Also on this square it´s the Recoleta Cultural Center, center of exhibitions with gratuitous entrance of the Government of the City that has varied and constantly renovated samples of art.

To the side, it is the Buenos Aires Design and Walk of the Pilar, commercial and gastronomic center inaugurated a few years ago. Crossing the Libertador

Recoleta Map - Buenos Aires, Argentina
City of Buenos Aires Map with
Recoleta Neighborhood in red
 Click on the Image to enlarge

Recoleta's main attractions:

  - The Buenos Aires Design Centre

  - Nuestra Señora del Pilar Church

  - Recoleta Cemetery

  - The Pizzurno Palace (Ministry of Education)

  - Alvear Palace Hotel

  - La Biela Café

  - National Library

  - University of Bs. As. School of Engineering
  - Floralis Genérica
  - University of Bs. As. School of Law

Recommended
Hotel in Recoleta
Hotel Recoleta Buenos Aires

  

Avenue, it´s the National Art Museum, also with gratuitous entrance, that possesses an important collection of national and world Art. The imposing Laws University are also in the area, and that of engineering, with a neogotic style, the Museum of Ornamental Art, the National Library, exponent of brutal architecture, the Sanmartinian Institute, Shoppings and a foreign cinema complex.

They also stand out the traditional Basilica Menor Nuestra Señora del Pilar, 1732, next to the cemetery, the building of the Automobile Argentinean Club, that of Channel 7, the Palais de Glace, center of exhibitions, and diverse monuments like the one of Evita, that of Artigas, that of Torcuato de Alvear, that de Carlos

of Alvear and sculptures like that of the Colombian Botero, in the Park Thays. There are important avenues, the Libertaador Avenue, Las Heras, Figueroa Alcorta, Callao, restaurants, bars and pubs and several discos.

Nuestra Señora del Pilar Church - Recoleta - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nuestra Señora del Pilar Church
 Click on the Image to enlarge

History: These lands were included in the first allotment and they corresponded the founder of the city, Juan de Garay. The area was of vegetable garden, had a slaughterhouse of sheep and it had abundant flooded terrestrial in the riverside. In 1706 the parents recoletos are resided that build their convent and the cemetery that it will be inaugurated for the city in 1822. In 1870, for the epidemic of yellow fever that invaded the city, the rich families commence to move commencing to give him their current configuration.
 

 

Floralis Generica: at United Nations Park: It's hard to miss this gigantic "generic" metal flower sculpture, designed by Argentine architect Eduardo Catalano to represent all flowers. Blooming daily at 8am, its petals close at sunset. The park around the sculpture is a pleasant enough place for a stroll any day, but the flower is at its most impressive at night, when it's bathed in bright red light. It's as beautiful as a gigantic, metallic red flower can possibly be.

Recoleta metal flower - Buenos Aires
Click here to enlarge
 
 
 
 
 
 

Argentina

Buenos Aires, Argentina | www.BuenosAires54.com | OnLine Since 2002