Buenos Aires Botanical Garden
Three gardens — Roman, French, and Oriental — each planted to a different century and continent, inside one triangular Palermo block.
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French landscape architect Carlos Thays designed this 7-hectare national monument, inaugurated in 1898, which holds 5,500 plant species across three distinct gardening styles. Thays lived on-site in an 1881 English-style mansion while directing the city's parks; that same building is now the garden's main structure. The mix of Roman, French, and Oriental beds — plus a South American section with Patagonian species alongside Brazilian Palo Borracho — makes a short walk feel like a cross-continental survey.
What to look for
- The Roman garden's cypresses, poplars, and laurels — chosen to replicate the species Pliny the Younger grew in his 1st-century Apennine villa
- The Oriental section's Ginkgo biloba (Asia) growing alongside Eucalyptus from Oceania and palms from Africa
- The 1881 English-style mansion where Thays lived during construction, now the garden's main building
Triangular plot bounded by Santa Fe Avenue, Las Heras Avenue, and República Árabe Siria Street — the three sides frame a compact garden that packs Roman, French, and Oriental sections into under 7 hectares.
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More to see in Buenos Aires
- Mas Monumental Stadium85,018 seats on reclaimed Río de la Plata marshland — the largest stadium in South America, and the ground where a World Cup Final was played.
- La BomboneraThat chocolate-box shape doesn't just look strange — the unusual design gives the bowl its famously excellent acoustics.
- Casa RosadaThe baby-pink paint was a political recipe: mix the Federalists' red with the Unitarians' white, and maybe stop a civil war.
- Teatro ColónAcoustics expert Leo Beranek surveyed leading international opera and orchestra directors and ranked this hall the world's best room for opera — not a slogan, a measured result.
- Oscar and Juan Gálvez Race TrackF1 cars once screamed through the third corner here at 305 km/h, flat out for 40 straight seconds — and the grandstands put you right on top of it.
- Palacio BaroloA 1923 tower mapped floor by floor onto Dante's Divine Comedy — hell at the base, purgatory in the middle, heaven at the top.