Buenos Aires - Recoleta and Barrio Norte

(Local Name: Recoleta and Barrio Norte) Fashionable Recoleta takes its name form the Franciscan convent c 1716, but is best known for its astonishing necropolis. It has many public gardens and the city's largest craft fair happens on Sunday. An entertaining site is the paseaperros, professional dog walkers with up to 12 on a leash. During the yellow-fever outbreaks of 1870, this is the area to which the upper-class retreated.