PLAZA CORTAZAR

This small square is the heart of Palermo Viejo, a traditional neighbourhood of Buenos Aires of low houses.
In the 80's, trendy pubs and restaurants opened around the square; nowadays the clothing and modernist design stores have multiplied.

It is popularly known as the "Placita Serrano" ;in 1994 it was named "Plaza Cortázar" in homage to Argentine writer (1914-1984) who used Palermo Viejo as the environment for many of his stories. ("Simulacros," for example.)

Plaza Cortázar is located almost in the heart of the area known as "Palermo SoHo" due to its artistic and bohemian style. It is approximately delimited by Niceto Vega, Malabia, Guatemala, and Godoy Cruz Streets. In Palermo SoHo there is activity during day and night, especially on weekends. The people visit it because of its pubs, (in some of them there are musical shows or plays,) restaurants, (they cover from relatively cheap food to haute cuisine,) and object design stores, with clothes or furniture.

ART FAIR

All the weekends, since lunchtime, forty plastic artists exhibit and sell their works in the Square Julio Cortázar of Palermo Viejo, one of most popular of Buenos Aires.
It is an invitation to know and to enjoy a new exhibition space where coexist different expressions from the Argentine contemporary art through techniques like painting, drawing, collage and engraving.

• Admission: Free

• Timetable: Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays from 10 to 20 hs.

• Location: Serrano and Honduras Streets

• Neighbourhood: Palermo

• Buses: 15, 55, 57, 140, 151, 166, 168.