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Technical Specifications:
Location: Serrano and Honduras Streets
Neighbourhood: Palermo
Buses: 15, 55, 57, 140, 151, 166, 168.
This small square is the heart of Palermo Viejo, a traditional neighbourhood of low houses.
In the 80's, trendy pubs and restaurants opened around the square; nowadays the clothing and modernist design stores have multiplied.
It is popularly known as the "Placita Serrano;" in 1994 it was named "Plaza Cortázar" in homage to Argentine writer (1914-1984) who used Palermo Viejo as the environment for many of his stories. ("Simulacros," for example.)
Plaza Cortázar is located almost in the heart of the area known as "Palermo SoHo" due to its artistic and bohemian style. It is approximately delimited by Niceto Vega, Malabia, Guatemala, and Godoy Cruz Streets. In Palermo SoHo there is activity during day and night, especially on weekends. The people visit it because of its pubs, (in some of them there are musical shows or plays,) restaurants, (they cover from relatively cheap food to haute cuisine,) and object design stores, with clothes or furniture.
The recent custom of renaming some areas of Palermo Viejo extend to the north of Plaza Cortázar: on the other side of the Metropolitan Railroad "Palermo Hollywood" is located, an area of films and television studies, production companies, and radios.
The streets of Palermo Hollywood are full of visitors who look for trendy pubs or international and ethnic food restaurants.
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