The sprawling, trendy barrio of Palermo Soho and Hollywood — cobbled, jacaranda-lined streets of boutiques, street art, the best restaurants and bars, and the big city parks nearby. Young, buzzing and endlessly fashionable; the top pick for most visitors, and the place to eat, drink and go out.
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What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.
€60–130
typical per night in Argentina
The sensible middle
Typical prices for Buenos Aires — neither steal nor splurge.
Where it sits
The circle is Palermo and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.
How far is everything?
From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.
- Recoleta Cemetery9 min taxi3.0 km
- El Ateneo Grand Splendid9 min taxi3.1 km
- Teatro Colón13 min taxi4.2 km
- The Obelisco & Avenida 9 de Julio13 min taxi4.4 km
- Casa Rosada & Plaza de Mayo17 min taxi5.6 km
- A tango show or milonga18 min taxi6.1 km
- The San Telmo Sunday market18 min taxi6.2 km
- La Boca & Caminito24 min taxi8.2 km
On your doorstep
What you’re living next to if you stay here.
- 4.An Argentine steak (parrilla) — Argentina raises the best beef on earth, and a long, wine-soaked dinner at a parrilla (grill house) is the national ritual — bife de chorizo or ojo de bife off the charcoal, chimichurri, and a bottle of Mendoza Malbec. Go late (Argentines eat at 10pm), order rare, and don't skip the provoleta and blood sausage.
- 9.The Palermo parks & Rosedal — The green lungs of the city — the Bosques de Palermo, a huge sweep of lakes, woods and gardens including the beautiful Rosedal rose garden and a serene Japanese garden. Where porteños jog, row, picnic and rollerblade at weekends; hire a bike or a pedalo, and enjoy a rare open, leafy expanse in the dense city.
- 11.Palermo nightlife — Buenos Aires nightlife is legendary — and it lives in Palermo, where the bars of Soho and Hollywood buzz from midnight and the clubs run till sunrise. Start with a fernet-and-coke or a craft cocktail, hit a speakeasy, and pace yourself: porteños dine at 10, hit the bars at 1 and the clubs at 3. The city that truly never sleeps.
- 15.Malbec, empanadas & dulce de leche — Beyond the steak, eat Argentina: golden baked empanadas, milanesa, and everything drowned in dulce de leche (the national caramel obsession — try it in an alfajor biscuit or on ice cream), all washed down with a Mendoza Malbec. Do a wine bar, a bakery and an ice-cream parlour; the sweet, savoury heart of porteño eating.
When are you staying?
Booking.com & Airbnb open searched to Palermo; flights via Google Flights.