Category: Sights

One of the largest and most varied quarters of Buenos Aires, a place where the city’s elegant nineteenth-century past and its contemporary creative energy meet almost on every corner. The name Palermo is generally linked to the Franciscan abbey of Saint Benedict of Palermo, while the area itself developed from land once associated with Juan Manuel de Rosas, whose former estate became the basis for the green spaces that still define much of the district. During the late nineteenth century, Palermo grew rapidly, gaining parks, tree-lined avenues and institutions such as the racecourse, and it gradually became one of Buenos Aires’ most desirable residential areas.

One of Buenos Aires’ most distinctive neighbourhoods, situated beside the Riachuelo in the city’s historic port area. La Boca developed during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as Genoese and other European immigrants arrived to work in the docks, shipyards and warehouses. Their modest conventillos, often built from corrugated metal and timber, gave the district its characteristic working-class atmosphere and colourful appearance.