Why you should choose Balvanera and Once neighborhoods

Balvanera is a neighborhood that is characterized by its great cultural diversity and its concentration of wholesale and retail clothing shops.

Once is a part of Balvanera that is heavily commercial and also has a significant Jewish community, with synagogues, shops and kosher restaurants.

Many visitors choose to rent rooms in Balvanera because of its architectural attractions and narrow streets, such as Sarmiento Street with its Andalucian style and glazed ceramic tiles, or the Pasaje Enrique Santos Discépolo with the plaque that commemorates the trip of the La Porteña locomotive in 1857.

There is also Plaza Miserere, and at the corner of Corrientes and Pueyrredón Avenues you can find the building where Baldomero Fernández Moreno was inspired to write his famous poem "70 Balcones y Ninguna Flor" ("70 Balconies and No Flower").

What it's like living in Balvanera and Once

The best thing about renting in Balvanera and Once is the feeling of a typical Latin American city because of the amount of people in the streets, the street vendors and the Peruvian restaurants.

In the center of Plaza Miserere is the mausoleum of Bernardino Rivadavia, created by sculptor Rogelio Yrurtia and designated a National Historical Monument. There is a concentration of public transportation where several bus lines begin their routes, in addition to a station of A Line of the subway and the Sarmiento Train. The main Avenues are Corrientes, Pueyrredón, Rivadavia, Callao and Independencia, among others.