Parque Saavedra is one of the oldest public parks in Buenos Aires, opened in 1889 on land that once belonged to Luis María Saavedra, whose estate here dated to the 1870s. Franco-Argentine landscaper Carlos Thays helped shape the grounds, and the park was renamed for Brigadier General Cornelio de Saavedra in 1913.
The park’s most distinctive features are historical rather than natural: a colonial-style entrance tower with a drawbridge and a Dutch-style windmill, both built to conceal a water tank used for irrigating the grounds, plus an ornamental lake fed by the channeled Medrano stream.
Located in the Saavedra neighborhood in northern Buenos Aires, the park is open around the clock, making it an easy stop for a walk, a picnic, or a look at one of the city’s earliest green spaces.
