Buenos Aires/Palermo
Table of Contents: Travel to Palermo, visa requirements By Metro By Bus / Palermo attractions and sightseeing / City tours / Shopping, Palermo souvenirs / Good restaurants and cheap meals / Palermo nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs. / Hotels, youth hostels, lodging / Contact More from Buenos Aires: Belgrano, Boedo, Caballito, La Boca, Palermo, Puerto Madero, Recoleta, Retiro, San Cristobal, San Telmo More from Pampas: Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (province), Cordoba (Argentina) More from Argentina: Andean Northwest (Argentina), Chaco (Argentina), Concepción del Uruguay, Cuyo, Mar del Plata, Mesopotamia (Argentina), Pampas, Patagonia (Argentina), San Juan (city, Argentina) More from South America: Amazonia, Andes, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, Guyana, Los Roques, Pantanal, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Tierra del Fuego, Uruguay, Venezuela |
Palermo is a district of Buenos Aires
Palermo has a lot of embassies and ambassador residences. Palermo also has trendy shops and cafes in the Soho and Hollywood districts. Unusually for a central area, it actually has single family homes and artists' lofts.
Travel to Palermo, visa requirements
By Metro
Subte stops (Green line):
- Scalabrini Ortiz
- Plaza Italia
- Palermo
- Ministro Carranza
By Bus
Take any bus to Plaza Italia and you'll be in the heart of Palermo.
Palermo attractions and sightseeing
- Palermo Viejo - Old part of Palermo. Most of Palermo is filled with high apartment buildings, Palermo Viejo is the only part of the district which has low houses and a more "tranquilo" feel to it. It has also become extremely trendy with many bars, restaurants and designer boutiques.
Palermo Viejo is a large area that can be further subdivided into Palermo Soho and Palermo Hollywood. Palermo Hollywood is home to the trendiest restaurants in Buenos Aires.
- Bosques de Palermo - Palermo is famous for its parks. Go take a nice stroll!
- Palermo chico - Expensive (very elite) area of Palermo where many diplomats and VIPs live. Near important places such as the American Embassy.
- Libertador - Huge avenida with expensive and snooty cafes.
- Avenida Santa Fe/Alto Palermo - Shopping
- Jardin Botanico - Great place to go for a taste of Buenos Aires. The quintessential "cat" garden is also filled with many flowers and a 19th century glass house.
- Palermo Las Canitas - The most exclusive and beautiful side of Palermo, and even inside of this sub-neighborhood, there is "La Imprenta" a couple of city blocks, with axe in migueletes and maure streets. Las Canitas remarks: It's an area with lots of nice restaurants, parrillas (argentinean beef), sushi, specialized/ ethnical restaurants (thai, mexican, greek, lyrical, custom, international, chinese, italian, french, german, etc). Modern buildings, nice cars on the streets, upscale people, in general it's quiet especially during daylights closer main avenues are libertador ave and Luis Maria Campos. El solar de la abadia shopping mall has also cinema, food court and cloth as any shopping mall. Outdoors close to Las Canitas: Golf course, polo fields, race , palermo lakes, bosques de palermo (crossing libertador ave).
City tours
Behold the Floralis Generica, a Giant Mechanic Sculpture of a Mettalic Flower which closes when the ligths of the day diappears. Go to the zoo! kagura
Shopping, Palermo souvenirs
Books in Spanish from the book fairs in Palermo.
Arts and crafts, mate cups, jewelry and lots of leather goods (somewhat cheap)at many other fairs on Saturdays and Sundays throughout Palermo.
Good restaurants and cheap meals
Most cafes will have outdoor seating and serve staples such as thinly cut steak sandwiches (lomitos), ham croissants (media luna) and malbec wine.
Cluny nice restaurant french criolla cuisine fussion
- La Cabrera. On the corner of Thames and Cabrera. Excellent Argentine steak house, great service, serves tapas style veggie platters along with your steak.
Palermo nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs.
Stop at any cafe for a espresso, cafe con leche (milk) or cortado.
Hotels, youth hostels, lodging
The Palermo Soho/Viejo area is home to some of the trendiest small boutique hotels in Buenos Aires. These hotels offer the ammentities of their larger international chain counterparts, plus a more personal style of service ofen at a fraction of the cost. The Bush twins stayed in the Home Hotel on their recent visit to Buenos Aires.
http://www.homebuenosaires.com/home/
Palermo Hollywood
La Casa Fitz Roy Hostel: Long Term Traveller's, Volunteers, ONG, Artists favorite. Right in the trendy part of the city, Palermo Hollywood,(restaurants+disco+ safest part of the city).This hostel is very clean, open areas, has internet facilities(Free),WiFi (Free), breakfast(included),Linen(included), housekeeping 7 days a week, Best matress( no more back pain!!), and shared kitchen ;locker & Transfers & spanish lessons(extra), Tours and flights can be booked(No charge)Rates:dorm: 23/26 pesos(8.00 USD) members/nonmembers, Doubles(14 USD),Single(23USD) Fitz Roy 2461 ; tel: +54 (11) 4777-3454.Station Palermo, Metro Line D(1.5 blocks) La Casa Fitz Roy
www.lacasafitzroy.com info@lacasafitzroy.com
Contact
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