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| To Palermo
and the forest |
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Beautiful
park that gathers several landmarks of cultural
and recreational interest.
Journey in
vehicle or on foot, of more than two hours
of duration; to carry out from Tuesday
to Sunday, preferably in the afternoon,
to have access to all the centers. Ideal
with children. Good restaurants and sweet
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| The forests
of Palermo |
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These lands
were low and marshy, the river grew and they
were flooded easily. The chacras lucks that conformed
these lands were bought around 1590 by a Sicilian,
called Juan Domínguez Palermo who cultivated
them with vines, fruit-bearing and wheat. It
called it to him from then on the fields of Palermo.
In the first decades of IXX century, these lands
were bought by Juan Manuel of Roses and unified
those that possessed in the area, making a total
of 541 h. It built a large house with colonial
image and gallery perimetral, in Av. Liberator
and Av. Sarmiento. It improved the roads with
conchilla and it stuffed the low lands with lands
of the ravines of Belgrano. A chapel, located
in it takes it south, San Benito from Palermo
was called by the blacks that worked in his house.
To entertain to their foreign companies, Rosas built numerous cages with
domestic animals and some aviaries with Argentinean typical birds. It is
counted that, in certain occasion, a favorite meek tigra of Rosas that
strolled for the house, came closer to some ladies that will have greeted
its daughter Manuelita. When seeing it the ladies they got scared, but
much more the tigra that came out running; according to Roses the animal
got scared when seeing so much ugliness it joins. .
After the battle of Landlords in 1852, the house happened to you flow of
the Gral. Urquiza. In 1858 it was organized, for initiative of Diego White,
the Primera Exhibition Agricultural Cattleman; then it was headquarters
of other institutions, until being finally demolished in 1899. They are
only the Aromo of the Pardon, the artificial lake and a channel toward
the river.
In 1872, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento proposed the creation of a park worthy
of the city. After many critics and opposing opinions, was founded in 1874
the Park February 3, on the old San Benito from Palermo. it wanted that
had plants and exotic animals, ornament and utility, to incline to their
acclimatization to the country. Also the copies of our flora that had application
to the industry for their rarity, or they were beautiful. worthy of study,
propagation or cultivation. It called himself to competition and two German,
called technicians won it Methfessel and Burmenl.
The project united to the current Botanical Garden, the Zoological one
and the forests of Palermo. Sarmiento requested to the provincial autochthonous
animals that were exchanged by giraffes, lions and rhinoceroses of European
gardens, especially of Belgium. This park had boats to oar, walks in cars
thrown by horses, dance places and sweet shops. Their current physiognomy
is due to the definitive layout, carried out in 1890 by the architect French
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This Walk
begins in Square Italy in Av. Santa Fe, having
to the front three places of interest: the Botanical
Garden, the Zoo and
the Rural Society Argentina.
In avenue Santa Fé and Las Heras is Square italia and
in the center is the monument to Giuseppe Garibladi.
If you crosses the Av. Las Heras whose layout concludes in Square
Italy, you arrives at the Zoo.
The journey of the zoo is beautified by numerous works of sculptors Argentinean
and European, as well as different sources that were originally placed
in places where the land was perforated in search of water. Leaving the
zoological one for the same entrance door, toward avenue Santa Fé,
inmeditamente to the front is the immense building of the Rural Society
Argentina.
The journey continues now for the great one that of Palermo that is the
Av. Sarmiento in its first tract toward Liberator it is formed by a double
plantation of oriental bananas, brought species of Europe for Carlos Thays.
Originariamente was the Av. of the Palms, where the first exotic palms
had been planted that arrived to the country for initiative of Torcuato
of Alvear and placed here by Sarmiento.
They were very questioned, to be considered by some sectors like a not
very national image and in opposition to the Pampas.
The polemic opposed them to the ombúes, considered the most representative
plant in the region pampeana. Little is of Sarmiento's palms; some can
be observed in the corresponding tract between the Av. Liberator and the
Av. Figueroa Alcorta, behind the first line of young jacarandáes.
They are very high, with very fine trunk and a single glass.
In the crossing with the Av. Liberator, in a central square, it highlights
the imposing presence of the Monument of the Spaniards.
In front of the Monument of the Spaniards, and to the other side of Av.
Liberator, the Square opens up Sicily. In the corner is the Monument
to Sarmiento.
Plus behind the Aromo of the Pardon, where Manuelita requested to its father,
Juan Manuel of Roses that forgave the life of its political enemies. In
the center of the square there is a small called artificial lake Victoria
Ocampo, where it is supposed it was of the house of Rosas, and a floodgate
that is 50 m before arriving to the Av. Adolfo Berro in an enclosure of
bricks, connected with a channel toward the river, for where Manuelita
used to navigate.
It crosses the Av. Sarmiento. In the square Gral. Páez (Av. of the
Liberator and Iraola) and is the monument to Drago.
To a side of the monument to Drago one can observe the monument
to Carlos III.
You advances for the Liberator's Av. until John F. Kennedy's corner , where
it is the Monument to Washington.
crosses John F Kennedy, a block later on is the monument to Avellaneda.
Bending for infanta Isabel until Pedro Montt. About 100 meters later on
are the monument to Schevchenko.
Crossing the street President Pedro Montt you arrives until one from the
accesses to the Rosedal.
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| The Rosedal |
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It is a walk, at
the moment fenced by a grill of 2,30 m of height.
It was created in 1914.
In 1994, due to the state of deterioration in that was, underwent a recovery
process. In this place that occupies 34.000 square meters, 1.189 species
different from roses were planted that gave origin to 14.600 rosebushes.
A group of agricultural engineers, headed by Benito Carrasco, promoter
of the creation of the walk, taught to the attendees to take care of roses
and he gave them yolks of the plants to plant them in his homes.
In the walk is the Garden of the Poets that gathers lyrical
writers' busts.
It is also here the Andalusian Patio, donated by the City
council of Seville in 1929. Continuing for the central avenue you arrives
at the garden of the rosesand for both roads you arrives
to The Bridge and the lake.
You leaves the Rosedal for the bridge that gives to the brought to an agreement
Infanta Isabel, crossing this you arrives at the Museum Sivori.
If we walk for for the avenue Infanta Isabel in address to Av. Liberator
is in the Infanta's Walk.
The continuous walk returning for Av of the Infanta and in front of the
bridge of the rosedal it will find the Museum Sivori and
in front of the this the sculpture of The Kiss.
It is continued by the avenue Infanta Isabel. To cross the one the avenue
lraola, and when you arrived the square Admiral Ramón González
Fernández The Athlete's sculpture is.
It bends toward the left. Crossing the Av. lraola, in the intersection
of the avenues Sarmiento and Figueroa Alcorta is the Monument to
Urquiza.
It is continued ahead by the Av. Sarmiento, and crossing the Av Belisario
Roldán you arrives at the square of the Planetarium in the center
of the same one you encuantre the Planetarium Galilean Galilei.
When leaving the Planetarium crosses the Av. Sarmiento and one walks toward
Av. of the Liberator. About 150 meters crossing to the Av. Adolfo Berro
the sculpture Red Cap is later on, and in front of this
the beautiful chalet of the Youth's Subsecretary. The front of this house
looks toward the interior of the park; it is a very picturesque place,
with wooden gallery and a garden of flowers with sculptures. Here they
are carried out almost permanent exhibitions in some of their living rooms.
Later on on the sidewalk, with a board that explains to it, is the Magnolia
of Avellaneda, centennial tree planted by Nicolás Avellaneda,
being President of the Nation when it inaugurated, after Sarmiento's arduous
work, this Park February 3.
To finish the this walk continuing some meters later on you arrives at
the Japanese Garden. Crossing the Avenue Casares is entered
in small Palermo (descrition in the walk Palermo Chico) |
Viajoporargentina - Información turística sobre la República Argentina
© 2003- Prohibida su reproducción total o parcial. Derechos de Autor 527292 Ley 11723 |
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