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Recoleta
It is one of the most tourist neighborhoods
in the city, linked to the high classes, it possesses a high populational
density, almost without low houses. It has a great number of traditional
estates of beginnings of the XX century where the families of the oligarchy
lived, now transformed in embassies or museums. Their more characteristic
space is the one thatis next to the traditional cemetery of the Recoleta,
very rich in art samples and history, since in their many luxurious tombs
and other not so much, they are some of the most important personalities
in the Argentinean history, as Guillermo Brown, Dorrego or Evita. To
their entrance it is the Plaza Alvear, cultural nucleus in which the
weekends are formed an important fair of crafts and many street shows.
Also on this square it´s the Recoleta Cultural Center, center of
exhibitions with gratuitous entrance of the Government of the City that
has varied and constantly renovated samples of art. To the side, it is
the Buenos Aires Design and Walk of the Pilar, commercial and gastronomic
center inaugurated a few years ago. Crossing the Libertador Avenue, it´s
the National Art Museum, also with gratuitous entrance, that possesses
an important collection of national and world Art. The imposing Laws
University are also in the area, and that of engineering, with a neogotic
style, the Museum of Ornamental Art, the National Library, exponent of
brutal architecture, the Sanmartinian Institute, Shoppings and a foreign
cinema complex. They also stand out the traditional Basilica Menor Nuestra
Señora del Pilar, 1732, next to the cemetery, the building of
the Automobile Argentinean Club, that of Channel 7, the Palais de Glace,
center of exhibitions, and diverse monuments like the one of Evita, that
of Artigas, that of Torcuato de Alvear, that de Carlos of Alvear and
sculptures like that of the Colombian Botero, in the Park Thays. There
are important avenues, the Libertaador Avenue, Las Heras, Figueroa Alcorta,
Callao, restaurants, bars and pubs and several discos.
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