From Thursday, April 17 to Sunday, April 20, we are in Easter Week. If you need to know how services, hospitals, transports and stores in Buenos Aires will work during the long Easter holiday, we will tell you everything below:
1. Public health
👉Public hospitals: operating with guards, critical areas, SAME and Emergency Fever Units.
👉 Cemeteries: burials in Chacarita, Flores, Recoleta and the entrance to the Crematorium will take place from 7:30 am to 2 pm. Last procedure at 1:00 pm; last interment at 1:30 pm.
👉 Civil Registry: closed, except for the death ward, which will operate from 8hs to 12hs.
👉 Police, Fire Department and emergency lines (911 and 103): operative 24 hours a day.
2. Education and public administration.
👉 Schools: closed both days.
👉 Communal Headquarters, AGIP and General Directorate of Revenue: closed.
👉Dirección General de Infracciones and Roca headquarters of Registro de Licencias para Conducir: closed.
👉Learning track for drivers: open during regular hours, with previous appointment.
3. Transportation and mobility
👉 Subways and Premetro: on Thursday they will operate from 6 am to 10 pm; on Friday, with holiday schedule, from 8 am to 9 pm/22 pm, depending on the line.
👉Ecobici: on Thursday will operate normally; on Friday intensive (monthly and annual), recreational (single and daily trip) and tourist (single, daily, three-day and seven-day trip) passes will be available.
👉Passes: will operate normally, considering weekend peak hours: from 11hs to 15hs towards Province and from 17hs to 21hs towards Downtown.
Parking: allowed in avenues and streets where parking is prohibited on working days from 7am to 9pm. Metered parking will not be in effect. Parking is forbidden in passages, arteries with Metrobus, coexistence streets and spaces parallel to bicycle lanes during 24 hours.
4. Urban services, public theaters and museums.
👉Waste collection: will operate as usual.
👉Vehicular Technical Verification (VTV): all seven plants are open on Thursday; on Friday they will remain closed.
👉 Cultural and recreational spaces.
👉Museums: open on Thursday from 11am to 8pm; closed on Friday.
👉Torre Monumental: open on Thursday from 10am to 6pm; closed on Friday.
Planetarium: open both days.
👉Public libraries: Güiraldes, Parque de la Estación, Casa de la Escritura y la Lectura and Reina Batata, open from 10am to 8pm.
👉Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires and Centro Cultural San Martín: closed.
👉Centro Cultural 25 de Mayo and Centro Cultural Recoleta: open on Friday from 11am to 9pm; closed on Thursday.
👉Usina del Arte: closed.
👉Teatro Colón: open.
5. Parks and reserves
👉 Carlos Thays Botanical Garden: open on Thursday; closed on Friday.
👉Ecoparque: open both days.
👉Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur, Costanera Norte and Lago Lugano: open on Thursday; closed on Friday.