Buenos Aires Landscapes

El Rosedal is a rose garden in the middle of Bosques de Palermo (Palermo Woods). It has an area of 34000 m² where the roses are distributed according to the color harmony and contrast. More than 12000 roses blossom there every spring, in a profusion of colors and aromas. There are 1.189 species of roses catalogued in alphanumerically order; amongst them new species are represented as well as gorgeous and exotic units.

El Rosedal was created in the year of 1914, when the Dirección General de Paseos Públicos of Buenos Aires decided to be necessary to create a stroll as an exponent of good taste and culture and at the same time could represent the progress of the city.

It has two accesses, one of them a wooden white bridge over one of the lakes of the park, built in 1914 by the engineer Benito Carrasco. The Greek architecture of the bridge is decorated with plants and flowers. El Rosedal has other attractions: El Jardín de los poetas (The Poet’s Garden), decorated with busts of important writers of different countries; El Patio Andaluz, built in 1929 and offered as a gift from Sevilla to Buenos Aires; La Glorieta, an elegant gallery of Greek style at one side of the lake, covered by climbing plants and roses, with mosaic floor and staircases distributed systematically by the way, reaching a sculpture called Ofrenda Floral a Sarmiento, by Emile Peynot.

El Rosedal is open for public visitation everyday but Mondays:

-  Summer: 8am to 8pm
-  Winter: 9am to 6pm

More information here (in Spanish). 

 Access bridge of the Rosedal

Where?
Parque Tres de Febrero - Bosques de Palermo | Av. Adolfo Berro between Av. Sarmiento and Av. Casares | Tel: +54 (11) 4800-1135

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sepphora | July 20, 2008 | 12:34 pm | Palermo