Palermo parks: Botanical Garden to the Rosedal and MALBA: a walk in Buenos Aires

From Plaza Italia through the Carlos Thays Botanical Garden to the Japanese Garden, the Planetarium and the 18,000 rose bushes of the Rosedal, ending at MALBA's Latin American art.

Best time: Weekend morning

The route, stop by stop

1
Plaza Italia
Start at the Line D station; 5 min.
2
Botanical Garden
Triangular botanical garden between Santa Fe and Las Heras, a National Monument since 1996; 40 min.
Carlos Thays's botanical garden holds 1,580 plant species on seven hectares, with native trees like tipa, cedro salteño and quebracho colorado, a butterfly garden and a main…
3
Japanese Garden
Japanese garden on Av. Casares; 40 min.
Built in 1967 for the visit of Akihito and Michiko of Japan and redesigned in 1977 by Yasuo Inomata, it is billed as the largest Japanese garden outside Japan, with koi ponds…
4
Planetario Galileo Galilei
The city's renovated planetarium in Parque Tres de Febrero; 20 min.
The 1967 planetarium projects around 8,900 stars, planets and moons onto a 20 m dome over 360 reclining seats, with six 8K projectors; it also keeps a collection of meteorites…
5
El Rosedal
Rose garden of 3.4 ha with about 18,000 rose bushes, the poets' busts and the Greek bridge; 30 min.
6
MALBA
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano on Av. Figueroa Alcorta; 90 min.
The Costantini collection of about 400 works by 20th-century Latin American artists in a limestone-and-glass building of 1997 chosen by a jury of Norman Foster, César Pelli and…

Walking directions

Palermo parks: Botanical Garden to the Rosedal and MALBA

The route, stop by stop

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