Buenos Aires Botanical Garden

The Buenos Aires Botanical Garden is located in the Palermo neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. The garden, which was declared a national monument in 1996, has a total area of 69,772 m2, and holds around 5,500 species of plants, trees and shrubs, as well as a number of sculptures, monuments and 5 winter-houses.
Designed by French-born Argentine architect and landscape designer Carlos Thays, the garden was inaugurated on September 7, 1898. Thays and his family lived in an English style mansion, located within the gardens, between 1892 and 1898, when he served as director of parks and walks in the city. The mansion, built in 1881, is currently the main building of the complex.

There are three main styles of landscape gardening in the Botanical Gardan: the symmetric, mixed and the picturesque, recreated in the Roman, the French and the Asian gardens.
It also has areas where the plants are ranked according to their origin, from Asia thera are copiesof Ginkgo biloba, from Oceania, Acacias, Eucalyptus and Casuarina, from Europe, oak, elm and hazelnut, and Africa, ferns, palms, and Gomera. Also from the United States sequoias, but above all, it has a special emphasis on the Argentine flora. There are also sectors where plant specimens are arranged systematically according to taxonomic classification.
There is a Botany Library with one thousand books and ten thousand publications from around the world, freely available for visitors.
The place has 33 works of art, sculptures, busts and monuments.
Another attraction of the Botanical Garden are its five greenhouses. As pointed out more greenhouse, art nouveau style, which was awarded at the Paris Exhibition of 1899, is 35 m long and 8 wide, by design, is considered to be the only of its kind that is kept in the world.