Outdoor sights in Buenos Aires
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Parque Lezama
Scruffy Parque Lezama was once thought to be the site of Buenos Aires’ founding in 1536, but archeological teams recently refuted the hypothesis. Today’s green park hosts old chess-playing gentlemen, bookworms toting mate (traditional Argentine tea) gourds and teenagers kissing on park benches. Don’t miss the striking Iglesia Ortodoxa Rusa (Russian Orthodox Church) on the north side of the park.
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Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur
The beautifully marshy land of this nature preserve makes it a popular site for weekend outings, when hundreds of picnickers, cyclists and families come for fresh air and natural views. If you’re lucky you may spot a river turtle or a coypu; bird-watchers will adore the 200-plus bird species that pause to rest here. You can rent bikes just outside the park entrance on the weekends (daily in summer).
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Parque 3 de Febrero
Also known as Bosques de Palermo, or Palermo Woods, this sweeping green space abounds with small lakes and paddleboats, pretty gazeboes, stands renting bikes and in-line skates, a monument to literary greats called El Jardín de los Poetas (the Garden of Poets), and the exquisite Rosedal (rose garden.) Watch your step at night, when Av de la Infanta Isabel becomes a transvestite red-light zone.
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Barrancas de Belgrano
Out in Belgrano, this handsomely landscaped park covers one of the city's few hills and was once the limit of the Río de La Plata. Old-timers pass the afternoons playing chess beneath the giant ombú tree, while dog owners unleash their pets downhill in the gated dog run.
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