Palermo: Buenos Aires Stay apartment, hotel and city guide to Buenos Aires
Palermo is known for its many parks and plazas. The Japanese garden in Tres de Febrero Park should not be missed, it is typical of the Japanese gardens you have seen, but benefits from a great contemporary Japanese Restaurant; the planetarium, zoo, botanical gardens, polo fields, and the Rural Society Convention Centre are all located in Palermo.
It is an extensive barrio in the northeast of the city close to Belgranoand Recoleta. Palermo has absolutely everything; it is the barrio I suggest most to both young and old alike. Every time I venture to Palermo I find something new especially in my favourite shops. I will be writing on Buenos Aires fashion later in this year so please book mark these pages. You have quiet residential streets or you can be part of a shopping and partying Mecca. The choice is yours. My advisors will provide excellent first-hand knowledge and advice, just ask, our advice is free and not dependent on your renting an apartment. Click here to read about Belgrano, Puerto Madero, Recoleta and San Telmo.
Within greater Palermo you have a number of smaller neighbourhoods:
•Alto Palermo that is downtown Palermo, with the main shopping areas and transport. Villa Freud, based around Plaza Güemes, is a residential area known for its high concentration of psychoanalysts and psychiatrists. I am told that Buenos Aires has more practitioners of this black art than any other city in the world.
•Palermo Viejoor old Palermo is home to much Spanish architecture, which betrays its early origins. It is divided by a train track, to the north is Palermo Hollywood, so named for its links to TV and radio and Palermo Soho in the south, so named for its likeness to London and Manhattan Soho - this fabulous area is explained in greater detail on this website.
•Palermo Chico (Small or exclusive Palermo) is the most up market part of Palermo, it borders Recoleta. The Buenos Aires Museum of Decorative Arts is located in Palermo Chico in a dazzling old palatial home. Neighbouring Barrio Parque is a strictly residential area laid out in winding streets by Carlos Thays; many of the wealthy and famous own homes in Palermo Chico and Barrio Parque.
•Las Canitas is a small but thriving part of Palermo; it is named after the crops of cane that once grew there. It is a former slum that has been given a great makeover and although approximately six blocks square (growing) at the north end of Palermo, it is fast becoming a favourite of the young middle classes. It warrants its own section on this website.
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