Follow some of our tips for the best bars, galleries and clothes stores in Palermo, but also take the time to find out how the Palermo neighborhood is subdivided into various different areas so that you can learn how to move around quicker and more effectively.. Anyone looking to find cultural centers and galleries, whilst hitting the credit card on clothes by day and cocktails by night, must visit the different areas of the Palermo neighborhood without question when visiting Buenos Aires.
Follow some of our tips below for the best bars, galleries and clothes stores in Palermo, but also take the time to find out how the Palermo neighborhood is subdivided into various different areas so that you can learn how to move around quicker and more effectively. Palermo is the largest neighborhood in Buenos Aires and has naturally developed over time into two distinct zones: the trendy zone known as Palermo Viejo which literally means Old Palermo and includes Palermo Hollywood and Palermo Soho and Palermo Chico, which is far more traditional-looking in terms of architecture and is a lot quieter at night.
Once a working class area of Buenos Aires, Palermo Viejo is now the height of modern, wealthy living. Palermo Chico, for its architecture, green space and family-focused households, retains the grandeur of the past and provides solace from the nearby busy street of Avenida General Las Heras and Avenida Libertador. Even though the official guide books might tell you otherwise, if you have spent any great time in Buenos Aires, you will be well aware of the fact that certain zones that fall within the official boundaries of Palermo Chico, Viejo, Soho or Hollywood, have their own specific names to help distinguish them from the rest of the area too.
Palermo Bosques literally, Palermo Forests is an area to the west and north of Palermo Chico covered by huge parks that are populated by sunbathers, families and fitness junkies alike all year round. Indeed, with its many divisions, sub-divisions and sub-sub-divisions, Palermo manages to turn Buenos Aires into a miniature New York City full of hundreds of sexy, single, successful women, enjoying the cocktail menus and penthouse lifestyle of Palermo Soho and Palermo Hollywood at night and the well-earned elegance and tranquility of Palermo Chico and the parks by day.
Head down to Fitzroy and Honduras and begin to take your pick of some of the best and most modern bars, clubs and restaurants that Buenos Aires has to offer. During the week and on Sundays it is rare to have to pay to enter and the door stay open until the sun comes up. SONOMAN, Fitzroy is a great standard bar with a nice patio area if you want to go for drinks with friends and chat the night away.
