Palermo Soho the Buenos Aires cultural side

The cultural Buenos Aires offer new spaces to be visited and enjoyed by the tourist that looks something more, Palermo Soho

Old Palermo was during decades the name of a part of one of the most extensive neighborhoods in Buenos Aires, Palermo, full of old large houses of ornamented facades, mechanical shops and warehouses, that show the pride to be the neighborhood in that the argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges was raised.

Little is of that old Palermo, where the tranquility of the afternoons invited to the nap and in whose corners, at the beginning of century, the tango was danced.

For less than 10 years, their near blocks an artistic, commercial and gastronomic boom that transformed the area especially into one of the favorite destinations of the tourists that arrive in Buenos Aires, usually for the youngest.

Of they realize the numerous typical houses "sausage" (with contiguous rooms to oneself corridor) become hostels and pensions with accommodations bread and breakfast that populate the area.

The youths arrive to Palermo

palermo soho bar Old Palermo took borrowed a last name of big cities like London and New York and Palermo was re baptized Soho.

At the moment, Palermo Soho harbors hundred of young dress designers' stores, accessories, furniture and decoration articles, art galleries, design studies, bookstores and musical stores.

Contiguously, to the other side of the line of the General railroad San Martin, is located Palermo Hollywood that owes its new name to the great quantity of producers, studies and cinema distributors and television settled down in the area.

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There are, among other, the channel of open television America, the argentinean branch of the Dutch Endemol (creator of successes like Operation Victory, a reality tv show), the main producers of argentinean tv, as Ideas del Sur, Pol-ka and Underground and cinema producers like Flehner Films, one of whose directors are Bruno Stagnaro (co-director of Pizza, birra, faso), or BD Cinema, of Daniel Burman (El brazo partido, The left hug).

palermo soho buenos aires In this area it also registers the biggest concentration of bars and restaurants, with foods for all the likes: Argentinean, Italian, vegetarian, magrebi, Vietnamese, Thai, French, Mediterranean, Armenian, Mexican and Japanese, in local of original and taken care spaces.

Palermo Soho and Hollywood, they are understood among the streets Paraguay, Córdoba, Scalabrini Ortiz and Dorrego (some 180 blocks).

The main artery of Palermo Soho, the street Jorge Luis Borges starts in the avenue Santa Fe and ends in the Plaza Serrano or Julio Cortazar public square, the heart of the moved palermitana.

The weekends dozens of artisans and plastic artists expose their creations there.

Some of the restaurants bordering also become on Saturdays and Sundays in fairs and festivals, in those that it is possible to buy to prices very accessible clothes and accessories with author's design.

Laura Driz is a fashion designer, she has 33 years and a local of clothes on the street Honduras.

"In Europe and United States they are surprised with the movement that it create here, because it is only, it doesn't have anything relation with the Soho of New York London or the Terminal of Barcelona, because there what there is stores of big marks and one that another independent designer.

"Here what prevails is the designers boutiques with an own project."

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Palermo Soho the Buenos Aires cultural side

The youths arrive to Palermo