Parque Tres de Febrero (Bosques de Palermo)
A dictator's seized estate turned 400-hectare public park, where rose gardens and a Modernist planetarium sit alongside Borges in bronze.
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After Juan Manuel de Rosas was overthrown in 1852, his private northside properties became public land. French Argentine urbanist Carlos Thays reshaped the park between 1892 and 1912, adding the Rose Garden and botanical grounds. The 1966 Galileo Galilei Planetarium — a Modernist sphere balanced on three arches — still runs projections inside its dome. Boat rides run on the three artificial lakes.
What to look for
- The Galileo Galilei Planetarium: a sphere supported by three arches, its Modernist form unlike anything else in the city
- The Poets' Garden, where stone and bronze busts include Jorge Luis Borges, Luigi Pirandello, and William Shakespeare
- El Rosedal, the Rose Garden laid out by Carlos Thays and part of his 1892–1912 redesign of the park
Enter from Libertador or Figueroa Alcorta Avenue in Palermo; the park is busy on weekdays and packed on weekends.
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- La BomboneraThat chocolate-box shape doesn't just look strange — the unusual design gives the bowl its famously excellent acoustics.
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- 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.