Parks & walks in Buenos Aires

10 places our drivers recommend.

• Palermo Parks & Rosedal · The city's great green lung: lakes, the rose garden and endless paths.
• Japanese Garden · A tidy Japanese garden with koi ponds and a tea house, inside the Palermo parks.
• Botanical Garden · A shaded historic garden with greenhouses and sculptures.
• Costanera Sur Ecological Reserve · A slice of wild pampas next to the skyline, right behind Puerto Madero.
• Plaza San Martín · A green slope between Retiro station and the elegant streets of the north end.
• Parque Lezama · The park where the city likes to say it was founded.
• Parque de la Memoria · A riverside memorial park for the victims of the dictatorship, with the names carved in a long wall.
• Costanera Norte · The riverside road north of the city, where locals go for the sunset over the water.
• Ecoparque (former Palermo Zoo) · The old Buenos Aires zoo, opened in 1888 and closed as a zoo in 2016, now a conservation and environmental education park inside its original pavilions.
• Parque Thays · The park built on the site of the Italpark funfair, which closed in 1990, keeping the 1915 railway water tower that now houses the MARQ architecture museum.