Palermo, Buenos Aires largest barrio in the north of the city divides into a grand family of neighborhoods for smashing Buenos Aires walking tours.
The neighborhoods each have accepted but unofficial titles originally created by real estate agents to demonstrate their unique characteristics.
In this series of Palermo walks and sightseeing guides are:
Palermo Viejo – Soho & Hollywood
On our main websites Buenos Aires Stay and Luxury BA Stay are comprehensive guides to Palermo with over 300 Palermo apartments to rent. Two areas in particular have changed beyond recognition over the ten to fifteen years, Palermo Soho part of Palermo Viejo and Las Cañitas, at the far north of the barrio next to Palermo Hollywood on the border of Belgrano.
Palermo Soho and Las Cañitas are hugely successful areas if urban regeneration and their gentrifications now inspire projects throughout the City.
Some of Palermo’s neighborhoods conserve older European style architecture and the aristocratic origins of the barrio. Whilst others are fashionable inventions of new upscale apartment blocks, trendy restaurants, bars, nightclubs and tasteful boutiques.
Palermo is truly a remarkable barrio with something for every tourist and every budget.
Our Palermo Buenos Aires walking tours highlight Palermo’s best sightseeing.
We recently published our favorite Buenos Aires walking tour from Recoleta to Palermo Soho and we have already written about Palermo’s wonderful parks.
Today, we start the first part in a series of Palermo walking tours, just north of Recoleta on Libertador Avenue, on Palermo’s northeastern edge, where we find Palermo Chico.
Within Palermo Chico, across Figueroa Alcorta Avenue and between San Martín de Tours and Tagle streets, is Barrio Parque, a salubrious and strictly residential area laid out in winding streets by Carlos Thays the French designer who settled in Argentina. Barrio Parque boasts some of the grandest property in Buenos Aires, many embassies and palatial homes adorn its winding streets, which have a canopy of South American trees giving an almost suburban feel.
Just one of its landmark mansions is the Instituto Nacional Sanmartinianofoundat Plaza Grand Bourg, which until recently held national treasures telling the story of Argentina’s most famous national hero, Jose San Martin.
The house is a slightly larger reproduction of the San Martin’s Boulogne Sur Mar home in France, where the ‘father of Argentina’ lived and died whilst living in exile.
Our Argentine friends tell us that no good deed goes unpunished in Argentina and San Martin, a great soldier who fought for independence from Spain, eventually gave up on the independent states of the Rio del la Plata because infighting and divisive politics were not part of his vision. The national treasures of San Martin have since moved to Museo Historic Nacional in San Telmo.
This Palermo neighbourhood can take a whole day or two sightseeing with several important galleries and museums to explore:
Museo de Motivos Argentinos José Hernández
Address: Ave. Libertador 2373-1425, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hours: Wed – Fri 13h00 to 19h00 Sat & Sun 10h00 to 20h00.
Museo de Motivos Argentinos José Hernández is dedicated to exhibiting ‘local’ woodcarving, silverwork, and textiles. The mission of the Jose Hernandez Museum is to gather, collect, document, preserve and promotes the artistic heritage of Argentina.
Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo
Address: Avenida del Libertador 190 y Pereyra Lucena, ,Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Hours: Daily 14h00 to 19h00
Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo, housed in the stunning beaux-arts “Placio Errazuriz” building, was converted into a museum in 1937, and its majestic ballrooms, bedrooms and hallways display over 4,000 pieces of decorative art, plus works by well-known artists such as El Greco and Manet. The museum has a good bookshop in the basement.
MALBA – Museo Nacional de Atre Litinoamericano de Buenos Aires
Address:Avenida Figueroa Alcorta 3415, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hours: Daily 12h00 to 20h00
The Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, more commonly referred to as the MALBA, houses, as its name suggests, 20th century and contemporary art from all over Latin America. Created under the initiative of the industrialist and Argentine collector Eduardo F. Constantini, the museum is the first of its kind in Argentina, and seeks to be the world’s preeminent museum of Latin American art.
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[...] week we started our walking tour just north of Recoleta in Palermo Chico and Barrio Parque, again, we think this walk is a near full day sightseeing and longer if you want to take your time. [...]