Recoleta has a typical "French architecture-style" well known for its squares, parks, cafés, galleries and the La Recoleta Cemetery Cementerio de la Recoleta, one of Argentina´s most important cemeteries. The neighbourhood has been referred to as the Paris of the Americas, many Fin de Siècle French-style palaces and villas were built in the area, especially on Avenida Alvear with its sophisticated restaurants, up-scale shopping and mansions built by the afluent families of Buenos Aires, (today some used as embassies), and one of Argentina's most luxurious hotels, the grand five-star Alvear Palace Hotel and Four Seasons Hotel.