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Recoleta | Neighborhoods in Buenos Aires | Argentina

Recoleta is a neighborhood in the center north zone of Argentina’s capital,

Buenos Aires. Well-known for its French architecture, imposing buildings,
aristocratic cemetery, museums and art exhibits, Recoleta is elegant and refined.
Shoppers strolling along the Avenida Alvear and the Avenida Santa Fe will find the
world’s most sought-after name brands as well as bookstores and art collections.

Recoleta holds a privileged place in the city, between the Obelisco and the
Palermo neighborhood, between Retiro and the coastline. The most European of
all Buenos Aires’ neighborhoods, Recoleta is not far from any of the capital’s most
attractive spots and lies at the heart of the tourist zone. It offers a variety of top
restaurants, pubs and discos from which the visitor can taste and enjoy the trendy
porteña nightlife.

One of the Recoleta’s biggest attractions is the Recoleta Cemetery, an unusual

place with a variety of crypts and mausoleums of dazzling architectural richness.
Here rests the aristocracy of Argentina, its presidents, celebrities and politicians.
The most visited tomb, however, is that of Eva Duarte de Perón, champion of the
poor and the working class, who now rests in the country’s most exclusive
cemetery.

Cemetry
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Evita Perón’s tomb

The Church of Our Lady of Pilar, completed in 1732, is part of the old Convent of
the Recoletos, the order of barefoot Franciscan monks who gave the neighborhood
its name. This colonial church contains a stunning Baroque altar brought from Perú
and decorated with silver from the Argentine province of Jujuy.

In front of the church is the Plaza Francia, a green area where lively weekend
artisan festivals delight natives and visitors with cultural activities and musical
spectacles.

The zone is also the home of the Centro Cultural Recoleta, a major gallery for
contemporary visual art and the Buenos Aires Design Center, with original and
attractive furniture, decor and design. Also worth a visit is El Museo de Bellas
Artes (the Fine Arts Museum) contains paintings done by Goya, Monet and
Rembrandt.

Heading north, the visitor will find the Recoleta parks with the modernistic Public
Library and the Sculpture of the Rose, a new mobile structure over 20 meters
high, opening and closing according to the sunlight.

The new MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoameriano de Buenos Aires) is

interesting for its architecture and its expositions.
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El MALBA

Without doubt, Recoleta symbolizes the most refined, upper class European face
of the city, a neighborhood the inhabitants of Buenos Aires love to show off.

Don’t miss a visit to Recoleta!

• Where to stay in Recoleta, Buenos Aires

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Recoleta: Apartaments, Hostels and Bed & Breakfast.

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Aires. The web site was created in 1999 and offers a wide selection of hostels, apartments, bed and
breakfasts, and university residences in the principal neighborhoods of Buenos Aires: Palermo,
Recoleta, Barrio Norte, Belgrano, San Telmo, La Boca, etc.