El Rosedal Garden

This guide to El Rosedal Garden in Buenos Aires wanders through disputed rose counts and twenty-six bronze poets tucked among the paths, from Dante and Borges to Antonio Machado, Federico García Lorca, and Alfonsina Storni. You'll hear how city official Joaquín Anchorena carved the garden out of land once seized from dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas, hiring Charles Thays and his student Benito Carrasco to build it by 1914. Cross the Greek bridge at the entrance and look for the Andalusian patio Seville sent as a gift in 1929.