A hotel in Buenos Aires and a destination in Argentina, among the 100 best places to visit, according to Time magazine

The American magazine Time has just published its traditional list World’s Greatest Places 2024putting in the foreground the recommended ones such as best places to visit.

Considered “100 extraordinary destinations to visit”, the list is divided into Places to Stay (places that offer accommodation) and Places to Visit (places to visit).

This year, among those chosen there are two argentines: and Buenos Aires hotel which recently opened, and an increasingly attractive destinationespecially among the foreign public.

The chosen hotel is in Buenos Aires and is called Casa Lucía. It is located on the beautiful 800 Arroyo Street, in the historic Mihanovich building.

“The new Casa Lucía hotel stands as a impressive testimony of Argentina’s talented creatives, both past and present, while honors maritime history unique of its capital,” says the publication.

Casa Lucía opened its doors in January of this year, but the building’s history began much earlier. The publication highlights the dream of shipping businessman Nicolás Mihanovich, who wanted to build “a building that could be seen from the coast when sailors arrived in Buenos Aires, sailing from some distant land.”

The building in question was Built in 1928 and until the beginning of 2000 it was residential. After a major remodeling, it became a hotel where the Sofitel Buenos Aires operated until 2017, when it closed… until the recent opening of the new hotel, by the Spanish chain Único Hotels, with Casa Lucía that is now highlighted by the magazine Time.

“He bright conservatory-style foyer It functions as an interior garden populated with cozy corners and flanked by the Cantina restaurant and the elegant cocktail bar Le Club Bacan. The 142 spacious rooms They feature changing black and white images of Buenos Aires taken by Argentine photographer Ricardo Piñeiro,” the publication describes.

The Iberá Wetlands in the province of Corrientes remained at the center of the scene since they are part of the 100 chosen by Time magazine for 2024.

Considered one of the fresh water reservoirs largest in the world, the Iberá Nature Reserve It has 1.3 million hectares that include the Iberá Provincial Park and the Iberá National Park, and covers 20 municipalities in the province of Corrientes.

In a landscape of lagoons, estuaries, rivers, marshes, grasslands, gallery jungles and submerged meadows, there is also a very diverse fauna: from herons, storks or chajás, to alligators, capybaras, river otters, swamp deer, among others. others.

In its election, Time magazine particularly highlights the successful work of the Rewilding Argentina Foundation to reintroduce the jaguar.

The protected area “houses one of the wildlife recovery projects most complete on the planet and is bearing fruit far beyond the borders of this reserve,” they highlight in the publication.

And they add: “Inspired by success in Iberáconservationists around the world have turned to Rewilding Argentina to help improve their own ecological efforts.”