If you are visiting Buenos Aires this spring, one of the greatest touristic options you can choose is to enjoy a day in Bosques de Palermo (Palermo Woods). This is one of the largest and greener parks of our city and a gathering place for Porteños. The urban park has approximately 989 acres and it is located, as it name indicates, in the neighborhood of Palermo, between Libertador and Figueroa Alcorta Avenues.
Among its main attractions are its groves, lakes, the
Rosedal (a marvelous rose garden) and the city Planetarium. The place used to
be the country house of local governor Juan Manuel de Rosas back in the XIX
Century. In 1874, the place becomes a city park by the initiative of president
Sarmiento who named it Parque Tres de Febrero. It was designed by urbanist Jordan
Czeslaw Wysocki and architect Julio Dormal, and formerly inaugurated on
November 11, 1875.
Some years after that, French Argentine urbanist
Carlos Thays was commissioned to expand and further beautify the park, between
1892 and 1912. The Andalusian Patio and Monument to the Four Argentine Regions
(the "Spaniards' Monument") were added in 1927, the Municipal Velodrome
in 1951 and the Galileo Galilei planetarium, in 1966.
If you pay a visit to Palermo Woods, you’ll find many
people on foot and bicycle (a number which increases on weekends). Boat rides
are available on the three artificial lakes within the park. Close to the
boating lake is the Poets' Garden, with stone and bronze busts of renowned
poets, including Jorge Luis Borges and William Shakespeare.
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