Calle Defensa vs Jardin Botanico
Both San Telmo and Jardin Botanico are praised by professional travelers. Overall, San Telmo scores marginally higher than Jardin Botanico. San Telmo comes in at 80 with positive reviews from 5 sources including Frommer's, Afar Magazine and Michelin Guide.
Calle Defensa
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Frommer's
"A masterpiece not just for its soaring wrought-iron interior, but for the atmosphere you'll find here."
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Travel + Leisure
"Depending on the visitor, either a lovably bohemian neighborhood of art galleries and ancient homes or a grungy neighborhood of overpriced tchotchkes."
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Travel + Leisure
"On Sundays it feels like the entire population of Buenos Aires flocks to the San Telmo neighborhood, home to a network of antiques centers that seems to stretch for miles."
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Michelin Guide
2 Stars
"It is a lively neighbourhood, that comes into its own on Sundays,."
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Afar Magazine
"The streets surrounding the Plaza Dorrego are filled with vendors selling art, antiques and souvenirs."
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Jardin Botanico
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Av. Santa Fe 3951, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Fodor's
"With 18 acres of gardens and 5,500 varieties of exotic and local flora, the Carlos Thays Botanical Garden is an unexpected green haven wedged between three busy Palermo streets."
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Concierge
"This welcoming green haven, built by the prolific French-Argentine landscape architect Carlos Thays in 1898, is an ideal place for a Sunday-afternoon ramble."
Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"Escape the din of Plaza Italia inside this lush botanical garden, designed by renowned landscape architect Carlos Thays and opened in 1898."
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Time Out
"Designed by celebrated French landscaper Charles Thays and inaugurated in 1898, BA's botanical garden is slightly shabby but nonetheless tranquil and full of fascinating flora."
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Michelin Guide
2 Stars
"Buenos Aires Botanical Garden has plants from Argentina and abroad, aromatic and endemic species, flowering plants... as well as fountains and sculptures."
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