I padded through several barrios this weekend and today. Here are the highlights:
Cemetario de Recoleta, an amazing mash-up of architecture styles, mausoleums, crypts, and statues of angels and blessed virgins. People were getting their pictures taken next Evita´s final resting place. If you could choose anyone, whose grave would you get your picture taken next to?
Nearby is Buenos Aires Design, a mall devoted to Design. Watch out Scandinavia! This place does modern pretty well.
Also nearby is Plaza Francia, a park with a huge craft fair on the weekends. Everyone should be happy to know that I purchased a pair of earings for myself. Pictures to come.
Floralis Genérica is a huge aluminum statue of a flower that opens and closes with the sun! Bonito! If only they put that in the middle of the city instead of that Washington-Monument-knock-off obelisk thing.
Recoleta itself, the barrio where all these wonders are located, is the posh section of town. It´s characterized by wide avenues, plentiful foliage, smart apartments, and the most elite retail establishments.
Today my classmate and I started exploring Palermo. It´s similar to Recoleta, but not as snobby. Expensive, but not as expensive, younger and hipper than Recoleta, and full of designer boutiques, restaurants, and bars. Plenty of stencils that I captured with Mark´s camera. I´ll get them up soon.
Chao!
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Love your photos of the flower sculpture. Very feminine, unlike that big ole phallus at the end of the Mall in DC!
I´m so stupid! I never even thought of the flower being a response to the obelisk. Especially right after it was built, a lot of people didn´t like the latter. They wanted it torn down.
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