Parque Tres de Febrero (Bosques de Palermo)
Parque Tres de Febrero
A 400-hectare park in the north of the city, with boating on the artificial lake, a rose garden of around 18,000 plants and a poets' garden, where locals picnic and cycle on weekends.
Officially called Parque Tres de Febrero, Palermo Woods was laid out at the end of the 19th century by French landscape architect Charles Thays. Its heart is the lakeside Rose Garden (El Rosedal), with roughly 18,000 rose bushes of more than a hundred varieties, framed by white Greek-style footbridges and busts in the Poets' Garden. The roses peak in October and November. You can rent pedal boats on the lake, and the lakeside road is closed to traffic on weekends for runners and cyclists. The park also contains a planetarium, a Japanese garden and the Ecoparque, an ecological park converted from a former zoo. The Rose Garden is free and open roughly 08:00–20:00 (earlier closing in winter); it is sometimes closed on Mondays for maintenance. It is a 15-minute walk from Plaza Italia station on Subway Line D, or you can use an Ecobici public bike.
Opening hours
Park open all day; rose garden approx. 08:00–20:00
Nearby sights
- Galileo Galilei Planetarium
- Japanese Garden (Buenos Aires)
- Evita Museum
- Buenos Aires Botanical Garden
- Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires
- National Museum of Decorative Arts
- Floralis Genérica
- Palermo