Location: Av. del Libertador and Av. Sarmiento
Neighbourhood: Palermo
Opening: 1875
With more than 80 hectares, it is one of the biggest green areas in Buenos Aires. The "porteños" visit the park to have picnics or to practice sports.
The park was started to be built in 1874 by the initiative of President Domingo F. Sarmiento. The original design was in charge of architects Oldendorf, Mauduit, and Wysocky; Belgian architect Jules Dormal (one of the architects of the "Teatro Colón" and the "Congreso") participated in the buildings too. Since 1892, Carlos Thays was in charge of the many changes and extensions. Thays was the main landscape gardener who worked in Argentina at the end of the 19th Century and at the beginning of the 20th Century.
The park has two artificial lakes which can be travelled by boat or by water-bicycles. The park has around 12,000 trees; many of them are yellow-flowered hardwood trees, eucalyptus, "talas", and ombus.
Inside the park, at the Plaza Holanda, "El Rosedal" is located; a garden with more than 12,000 rosebushes.
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