Buenos Aires Sights

Floralis Genérica Review

The gleaming steel and aluminum petals of this giant flower look very space age, perhaps because they were commissioned from the Lockheed airplane factory by architect Eduardo Catalano, who designed and paid for the monument. The 66-foot-high structure is supposed to open at dawn and close at dusk, when the setting sun turns its mirrored surfaces a glowing pink (sometimes the mechanism is out of order, however). The flower stands in the Plaza Naciones Unidas (behind El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes over Avenida Figueroa Alcorta), which was remodeled to accommodate it.

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  • Address: Plaza Naciones Unidas at Av. Figueroa Alcorta and J.A. Biblioni, Recoleta, Buenos Aires | Map It
  • Hours: Dawn-dusk
  • Location: Recoleta and Almagro

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