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Recoleta holds a privileged place in the city, between the Obelisco and the
Palermo neighborhood, between Retiro and the coastline. The most European of
all Buenos Aires’ neighborhoods, Recoleta is not far from any of the capital’s most
attractive spots and lies at the heart of the tourist zone. It offers a variety of top
restaurants, pubs and discos from which the visitor can taste and enjoy the trendy
porteña nightlife.
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The Church of Our Lady of Pilar, completed in 1732, is part of the old Convent of
the Recoletos, the order of barefoot Franciscan monks who gave the neighborhood
its name. This colonial church contains a stunning Baroque altar brought from Perú
and decorated with silver from the Argentine province of Jujuy.
In front of the church is the Plaza Francia, a green area where lively weekend
artisan festivals delight natives and visitors with cultural activities and musical
spectacles.
The zone is also the home of the Centro Cultural Recoleta, a major gallery for
contemporary visual art and the Buenos Aires Design Center, with original and
attractive furniture, decor and design. Also worth a visit is El Museo de Bellas
Artes (the Fine Arts Museum) contains paintings done by Goya, Monet and
Rembrandt.
Heading north, the visitor will find the Recoleta parks with the modernistic Public
Library and the Sculpture of the Rose, a new mobile structure over 20 meters
high, opening and closing according to the sunlight.
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Without doubt, Recoleta symbolizes the most refined, upper class European face
of the city, a neighborhood the inhabitants of Buenos Aires love to show off.
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