Parque Tres de Febrero

The Parque Tres de Febrero, also known as Bosques de Palermo ( Palermo forest ), is a 25 -acre city park in the Palermo district of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. It is located between Avenida del Libertador and Figueroa Alcorta Avenue. The park is known for its groves, lakes and the Rose Garden ( El Rosedal ).

He, together with the Parque General Belgrano, the Plaza Alemania, the Buenos Aires Zoo, the Botanical Gardens and Plaza Seeber a contiguous green space. To the west is also close to the Campo Argentino de Polo and the Hipódromo Argentino. In the southeastern corner of the park, the Japanese Garden is to be found.

History

After the Battle of Caseros in 1852 and the fall of Juan Manuel de Rosas its extensive grounds was expropriated in the north of Buenos Aires. 1862 although the decision of the city council to make this land for a public park. On the initiative of Congressman Vicente Fidel López, and the President Sarmiento in 1874, work began. The name of the park should remember the February 3, 1852, the date of Rosas ' overthrow.

The park was designed by the city planners Jordán Czeslaw Wysocki and the architect Julio Dormal and inaugurated on November 11, 1875. The economic boom in Buenos Aires helped at this time, the park grounds to transfer in 1888 to the city, to which the French -born Carlos Thays was commissioned with the expansion and beautification of the park. The work took ten years to complete and in 1912, this also included the installation of the rose garden. Thays designed as the Zoo, the Botanical Gardens and the adjacent Plaza Italia.

In 1927, the Andalusian patio and the monument of the Four Argentine Regions were supplemented in 1951 was added the velodrome and 1966 the Planetarium. There is the Museo de Artes Plásticas Eduardo Sivori on the Avenida de la Infanta Isabel leading through the park.