Alvear Palace Hotel

The Alvear Palace Hotel is located in the heart of upscale Recoleta neighborhood and offers upscale accommodations with luxurious and elegant decor. It features a spa, a modern fitness center and 2 charming restaurants. The Museum of Fine Arts is 150 meters and the Recoleta Cemetery is 200 meters. This hotel is part of the group The Leading Hotels of the World.
The rooms at Palace Alvear Hotel are spacious and feature Louis XVI style desk and seating area. They also include a private hot tub, shower, Wi-Fi, plasma TV and DVD player. traditional service and butler service is provided shopping assistant.
La Bourgogne restaurant offers French specialties and L’Orangerie serves an international buffet lunch. The property features an award-winning lobby bar and the only cigar lounge in the city.
The spa includes a hot tub, sauna and Turkish baths. The Alvear Palace is a 15-minute walk from Galerias Pacifico, the most exclusive mall in Argentina.
The reception is open 24 hours and offers shuttle services. Jorge Newbery Airport is 3 km away and Ezeiza International Airport, 32.3 km. The Alvear Palace Hotel is 2.1 km from the Obelisk.

Champagne Bar – Art Deco

In all major cities and world capitals luxury hotels often have a concept and sophisticated space when enjoying cocktails and drinks.
The Alvear Palace Hotel attentive to this global trend opened the Champagne Bar, unique in Buenos Aires.
The Bartender, Ines De Los Santos renowned designed the menu of drinks including fine and classic combinations with sparkling wines and champagne Moet Hennessy.
The decor and Art Deco surrounds guests and customers in an exceptional atmosphere. The letter does honor to the world of bubbles and a proposal has varied drink.
It also offers fine dining options designed especially to accompany cocktails.
“The bar was designed with either different from the rest of the hotel Art Deco style, to break and create a second bar that is different ‘says Pascal Bernard, manager of Restaurant at the Alvear Palace Hotel-. Initially, about six years ago, we did a proposal based cigars, chocolate pairings, but this year we decided to move away from the world of smoke and cool it completely. that thought we resort to champagne, which is the most luxurious and festive drink that may be. ”
On one side of the central hall of Alvear, which is accessed by the classic steps, just entering on the left is the entrance which gives privacy to the reduced space-not more than 20 seats- the brand new Champagne Bar, which it is open daily, 18 to 2 in the morning. Inside, the bar through one of the edges of the room, full of comfortable chairs and low tables; another wall provides a snapshot of select French labels that there can be drunk, some even by the glass.
The select list of champagnes and sparkling wines includes some of the best labels of French and Argentine bubbles, with a variety of styles including up to a foaming kosher (Herzog Brut Blanc de Blancs), to be accompanied by delicacies such as Patagonian oysters or caviar Ossetra plus assorted canapes and selections of cheeses and cold cuts. Thursday, it noted, is sushi night at the Champagne Bar, which invites you to dive into the cocktail looking for some specially designed for maridarlos.
Tokyo Sling, this is the cocktail that Inés de los Santos recommended to accompany the sushi. “This is the perfect drink for sushi assures the outstanding bartender, who was in charge of the creation of the cocktail of Champagne Bar Alvear. We do fresh cucumber juice, sake, Chandon Extra Brut and shiso, which is a hybrid between Japanese mint and basil, or mint. ”
A tour of the letter
“We developed a menu of drinks from sparkling wine and champagne, with proposals for all tastes: cocktails with Veuve Clicquot or Moet et Chandon, others with Baron B, with Chandon, with pink, extra brut or brut nature, and even with expedition liqueur Baron B, “says Agnes, noting that the letter from the Champagne Bar, despite overcome by little dozen cocktails, offers an interesting variety of reversionados classics:” from dry cocktails, alcoholics, even fruity drinks , freshest, sweetest citrus “.
In the bar, making drinks created by Ines is in charge of Ramiro Martin bartender who until recently shone in the bar of Alvear Art Hotel, and was now called by the Palace to carry out the proposed new Champagne Bar .
What test? Agnes runs aloud his own letter: “The Aged Negroni Sbagliato is aged in a barrel and also is tuisteado with wine expedition that is used to make the Baron B, which links well to Negroni with foaming, and obviously finished with Baron B, Bombay gin and Campari. it is rather alcoholic, rather dry, “says the bartender outstanding.
Another suggestion of Agnes, the Gunpowder Fizz. “We use a very particular green tea to infuse flavor and a gin -describes Ines is a version of Tom Collins, instead of using soda sparkling wine carries citric It is well, very fresh. “. And a recommendation by the reporter who writes these lines: L’Hugo. “It’s a spritz, but northern Italy. Here has not been released because it has an ingredient not so easy to find, which is the elderberry syrup ‘says Ines. We bring in Bariloche, is made of flowers elderberry, and we mix it with sparkling wine, lime and fresh mint. it’s really interesting. ”
The letter also includes mimosas (more sparkling fruit juice) to prepare any of the champagnes of the bar, and an interesting selection of wines and spirits. “The idea is that the Champagne Bar is a place to celebrate, to get a drink before leaving or returning from an outing, take something to close the night,” concludes Pascal.

RECOLETA neighborhood

Recoleta is the most elegant neighborhood of the city for its buildings, its shopping area and its famous cemetery. When in 1580 Don Juan de Garay founded the city of Buenos Aires, distributed land among members of his expedition. The area covered by the current neighborhood of Recoleta was awarded to Rodrigo Ortiz de Zarate.
The name of this Buenos Aires neighborhood derives from the church and convent of monks Recoletos who came here in the early eighteenth century. By the end of the century the large farms and villas, as well as the vacant uninhabited place, began to divide and repopulated. After frequent epidemics of cholera and especially the yellow fever of 1871, the richest families in the south of the city moved north and were thus populating the area.
The final consolidation of the district was the work of the first mayor of the city, Torcuato de Alvear. From then began to build opulent palaces surrounded by gardens, copying, especially the French European model. Architects and labor were usually foreign and imported materials. Today the neighborhood is distinguished by the quality of its architecture, the aristocratic nature of their residences and palaces, and splendid places. The Church, the Cemetery and the current Cultural Centre constitute a rich architectural history.

ALVEAR AVENUE

The perhaps the most elegant of the city,  Alvear Avenue was traced in 1885 at the initiative of Mayor Torcuato de Alvear. Although originally called Bella Vista, he was then named in homage to the father of the official, Carlos Maria de Alvear, a man of outstanding performance in the dawn of Argentina. The avenue was born in the small square Carlos Pellegrini and ends at the monument to Torcuato de Alvear. This work of John Lauer, inaugurated in 1900, is composed of a marble column Doric, topped by a winged figure representing Glory. In the middle, on the shaft, the bust of the first mayor of Buenos Aires and is found at the base three bas-reliefs depicting the central facts of his performance as a precursor of urban development of the city.
A series of aristocratic residences are built on Alvear Avenue: the Pereda Palace (now the residence of the Ambassador of Brazil), the Palace Ortiz Basualdo (which houses the French Embassy), the mansion of Concepción Unzué de Casares (headquarters of the Jockey Club) , Alzaga Unzue Palace (Four Seasons Hotel) and the residence Duhau (Park Hyatt Hotel). These buildings reflect the influence of French academicism and give the avenue a Parisian air.
In the corner of  Alvear Avenue and Ayacucho sophisticated Alvear Palace Hotel, built in 1928 by architects Valentin Brodski and Estanislao Pirovano, and engineers Escudero and Ortúzar, with documentation brought from Paris stands. The hotel has 280 rooms decorated in different styles, the Roof Garden (a luxury room on the top floor) and spacious terraces from which the Rio de la Plata currency. Throughout his nearly eight decades of history, the Alvear host to emperors, kings, presidents and world-renowned artists.

Tourist spots in recoleta

El Ateneo Grand Splendid
Chosen by the British newspaper The Guardian as the second largest bookstore in the world.

Carlos Thays Park
This green space, 4500 m2, was named after Carlos Thays.

Law School
It features a museum, an art gallery and a specialized library.

Floralis Generica
It is a sculpture of 20 meters high made of stainless steel and aluminum.

National museum of fine arts
It has the largest collection of Argentine art in the country.

National Library
It is set on a cliff in one of the most elegant areas.

Plaza Mitre
The bronze figure stands on a base of red granite.

Plaza Francia
This green space was designed by the famous landscape painter Carlos Thays.

Recoleta Cultural Center
It has 27 rooms exhibition, a small cinema, an auditorium and an amphitheater.

Basilica Nuestra Señora del Pilar
Opened in 1732. It preserves altarpieces, imagery and original ornaments.

Recoleta Cemetery
More than 90 vaults have been declared a National Historic Landmark.

 Quintana Avenue, La Biela
This bright avenue and appears in 1722 in a plane layout of the city.

Alvear Hotel Alvear
Alvear Avenue, perhaps the most elegant of the city, was traced in 1885.

Palais de Glace
It was opened in 1910 and later qualified as a popular dance hall.