A little off the beaten track. Includes a memorial wall with names of victims, outdoor sculptures, and informative displays. Helped me gain an understanding of the "Dirty War".

This is a nice, large park with a grass lawn that slopes down toward the wide concrete path that overlooks the Rio de La Plate River. The Memorial contained some interesting, artsy monuments dedicated to the memory of the "disappeared" - the victims who were labeled as dissenters, abducted, and silenced during the militant dictatorship called the "Dirty War". Rather than serving as an informative outdoor museum of art, the purpose of this park is to display larger-than-life artistic sculptures with thought-provoking messages about human rights and peace. A memorial wall with the names of the disappeared will endure as a reminder of the event and the injustices dealt to the murdered victims and their families who never knew what happened to their children. We walked through this park after visiting the ESMA museum and detention center where the victims were taken to be tortured and executed. I thought the park sculptures were interesting, but not as powerful as I'd anticipated. In hindsight, I think if you're going to visit the park, you should visit BEFORE the ESMA detention center because everything else pales in comparison after the profound experience of visiting ESMA. However, I wouldn't recommend visiting this park if you haven't read up on the event first. We stopped at this park because it was walking distance to Tierra Santa. After viewing the memorial art, we continued past the waterfront where many families were picnicking and fishing, and further down the avenue to the theme park. If we hadn't planned on going to Tierra Santa, we would not have visited this park because it is a bit out-of-the-way (near the Jorge Newberry Domestic Airport). Unless you are really into modern art, I don't feel like it's worth a trip out there just to see the memorial park. If you want to know about the "Dirty War" and the "disappeared", travel about five miles farther north to the Espacio Memoria y Derechos Humanos ex Esma museum. The museum building closes at 5pm, and contains all of the history and explanation of the "disappeared". You need about an hour inside. The detention center site; however, is open until 9 or 10 pm, and visitors can roam the grounds freely. Lining the narrow dirt roads were several displays, each with the picture and biography of the "disappeared" victims. To me, these displays were far more informative and moving than the sculptures at the memorial park because the displays put a face on the tragedy, bringing it into sharper focus, and making it "real". The area itself was disturbing. Wandering the area, it was clear that all of the abandoned buildings were locked, the windows boarded up, and the grounds, empty and silent. No one else was on site and the silence was deafening. I could almost feel the echoes of violence lingering in the shadows, and an eerie chill seeped through the air, like the stain of tortured screams, unspeakable deeds, and cries for mercy hovering oppressively above me. In my opinion, walking around this unsettling detention site was a powerful way to memorialize the real faces and stories of the victims who were tortured and killed at the hands of the dictatorial regime. The surreal creepiness of the site will imprint this event into your memory far more than a few sculptures ever could.