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

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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 itīs 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 Avenue, itīs 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 Seņora 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.