The Carlos Thays Botanical Garden: The Best of a Beautiful Outdoor Museum

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Buenos Aires audio tour: The Carlos Thays Botanical Garden: The Best of a Beautiful Outdoor Museum

This is a 0.5mi walking tour

It takes an average of 45 mins to complete.

Buenos Aires

Argentina

$7.99

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About the Tour

Explore this seven-hectare outdoor museum on a relaxed walking tour. Here, at the Carlos Thays Botanical Garden, you’ll find various sculptures, some influenced by Beethoven's music and others by sculptor Rodin.

I’m Frank Almeida, your host, and I live in Palermo Viejo, close to the gardens. It features prominently on one of my popular food and craft beer tours, so I visit it often. This park was created during the immigration boom when Argentina was one of the world's richest countries and people flocked here to be a part of its growth, dreaming of a better life.

As you explore the park, you’ll hear some of its history and a handful of quirky facts too, including:

An unlikely reference to a Seinfeld show
The origins of Christmas
Which artworks were inspired by Beethoven's 6th symphony
The origins of Argentina’s mate industry
Where to find an amazing, and one of the last remaining, art nouveau-style greenhouses in the world

On this 30-minute tour you'll get to immerse yourself in the local culture, while surrounded by a beautiful, peaceful garden in the middle of a large metropolis.

Tour Producer

Frank Almeida

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My name is Frank Almeida, and I’m the founder of AsadoAdventure, a boutique culinary tour company based in Buenos Aires. I was born in Chicago and moved to Argentina in 1999. After living through the 2001 financial crisis firsthand, my wife and I launched Argentina’s first premium cookie brand in 2002. We built it into a nationally recognized gourmet company and sold it in 2015. Soon after, I founded AsadoAdventure.
For more than a decade, I’ve been designing and leading immersive food and neighborhood experiences in Buenos Aires. My tours combine culinary storytelling, street art, immigration history, political context, and Argentine grilling culture. I guide guests through Palermo’s layered past, Avenida Corrientes’ pizza institutions, and the ritual of the asado in my own home. My focus is always on connecting visitors with the deeper cultural story behind the food.
In addition to hosting in-person experiences, I created a self-guided audio tour on VoiceMap that is one of the most popular audio tours in Buenos Aires on the platform. The audio format allows independent travelers to explore the neighborhood at their own pace while still benefiting from the same research, historical context, and local insight that I bring to my live tours. It is built from years of guiding, refining stories, and answering real traveler questions.
I work closely with local butchers, winemakers, brewers, and artists, and I continue researching the neighborhoods I guide in. My work is rooted in lived experience and long-term commitment to Buenos Aires.

Preview Location

Location 1

Carlos Thays Botanical Garden Entrance

Welcome to this tour of the Carlos Thays Botanical Garden.

You should be standing at the entrance arch. Notice the round holes created in the arch so that you can look up at the trees while we spend a few moments here before heading in.

It is 1898, and Carlos Thays, a ... Read More

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Major Landmarks

Jardín Botánico Carlos Thays
Escultura L'aquaiolo
El Mensaje de Mercurio
Venus
Invernáculo Principal - Tropicales
Columna Meteorológica - Monumento del Centenario Donado por el Imperio Austrohúngaro
The awakening of nature
Sagunto
Flora Argentina
Saturnalia
Los Primeros Frios by Miguel Blay y Fábregas
Centro de Interpretación Botánica
Homenaje a Carlos Thays

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Getting There

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Start location
Av. Sta. Fe 3957, C1425BHO Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Total distance

862m
Final location
Av. Sta. Fe 3957, C1425BHO Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Distance back to start location

61.01m

Directions to Starting Point

The garden is at Av. Santa Fe 3951 in between the D-line subway stops, Scalabrini Ortiz and Plaza Italia.

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Tips

Places to stop along the way

Nearby you have some great restaurants like Lucio Pizza y Pasta (Av Scalabrini Ortiz 2402) for a quick local breakfast of coffee with medialunas (that's what this place is really known for) or you can also visit Varela Varelita (Av Scalabrini Ortiz 2102) for an afternoon cocktail of Fernet and Coke and drink amongst locals. If you would like to try Argentina's favorite sandwich you can head on over to Chori (Thames 1653) my favorite is the chorichanga, which is a pork sausage sandwich with cilantro, pineapple honey, pickled jalapeño, and salsa criolla (fresh salsa typically made with onions, various bell peppers, tomatoes, green onion, oil, and apple cider vinegar) made with soy sauce.

Best time of day

The park is open from 9 am until 6 pm and it's great to visit during those hours. Please keep in mind that it closes for rain.

Precautions

Inside the park is pretty safe, but keep aware of pickpockets that operate outside of the park and especially in public transportation.

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