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Parque Tres de Febrero, popularly known asBosques de Palermo (Palermo Woods), is anurban park of approximately 400 hectares (about 989 acres) located in theneighborhood ofPalermo inBuenos Aires, Argentina. Located betweenLibertador andFigueroa Alcorta Avenues, it is known for its groves, lakes, and rose gardens (El Rosedal).
Following the 1852overthrow of strongmanJuan Manuel de Rosas, his extensive northside Buenos Aires properties became public lands and, in 1862, a municipal ordinance provided for a city park on most of that land. On the initiative ofCongressmanVicente Fidel López and PresidentDomingo Sarmiento, work began in 1874 onParque Tres de Febrero (February 3 Park), named in honor of February 3, 1852, the date of the defeat of Governor Rosas, among whose opponents had been Sarmiento.
Designed by urbanist Jordán Czeslaw Wysocki and architectJulio Dormal, the park was inaugurated on November 11, 1875. The dramatic economic growth of Buenos Aires afterwards helped to lead to its transfer to the municipal domain in 1888, wherebyFrench Argentine urbanistCarlos Thays was commissioned to expand and further beautify the park, between 1892 and 1912. Thays designed theZoological Gardens, theBotanical Gardens, the adjoining Plaza Italia and the Rose Garden.
The Andalusian Patio andMonument to the Four Argentine Regions (the "Spaniards' Monument") were added in 1927, the MunicipalVelodrome in 1951 and theGalileo Galilei planetarium, in 1966. ItsModernist architecture is distinctive in the city—a sphere supported by three arches. A popular field trip destination for the city'sschoolchildren, the planets and other astronomical phenomena are projected on the dome, inside.
Atemporary circuit inside the park was used as the track for theBuenos Aires Grand Prix ofFormula Libre between 1948 and 1950.
AnEdwardian-style formercafé on the grounds became theEduardo Sívori Museum in 1996.
Many people use the park every day, both on foot and bicycle, and this number increases greatly at the weekends. Boat rides are available on the three artificial lakes within the park. Close to the boating lake is the Poets' Garden, with stone and bronze busts of renowned poets, includingJorge Luis Borges,Luigi Pirandello andWilliam Shakespeare.
The Buenos Aires Zoo was a 45-acre (18-ha) zoo founded in 1888 by theMayor Antonio Crespo. The Zoo contained 89 species of mammals, 49 species of reptiles and 175 species of birds, with a total of over 2,500 different animals. The institution's goals were to conserve species, produce research, and to educate the public.
It is located oppositePlaza Italia at the junction of the Las Heras andSarmiento Avenue.
It was closed to the public in 2016.
The Japanese garden was opened in 1967 at its current location, occupying a part of the Parque Tres de Febrero, in Plaza Sicilia. Is located in Adolfo Berro Avenue and front of the Alemania square.
The demolition of the originalJapanese Garden in theRetiro area led to the 1967 opening of the currentBuenos Aires Japanese Gardens, the World's largest outsideJapan.
The gardens were inaugurated on occasion of a State visit to Argentina by then-Crown PrinceAkihito and PrincessMichiko of Japan.
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