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Like any world city, and a national capital, at that, Buenos Aires has the usual collection of traditional sights beckoning to backpackers looking for Kodak moments to bring home—grand opera houses, beautiful palaces, tree-lined avenues, and the like. What sets BA’s landmarks apart, though, is their consistent ability to surprise with neverending, uniquely Argentine quirkiness. A strangely pink presidential mansion? Check. A gigantic metal flower? They’ve got one. A humongous animatronic Jesus, complete with hourly resurrections? What, you’ve never seen one before? Mixed in are the vestiges of a distant Spanish colonial past and the city’s attempts to assert its own identity in response, through streets with brightly colored homes to cemeteries larger than towns.
Buenos Aires’ historic heart, Monserrat encompasses the city’s most famous sights and its most important plazas and avenues. Bounded by Avenida de Mayo to the north and Avenida de Independencia to ...more
Plaza De Mayo. The Plaza de Mayo has long been a hotbed of political activity. In the 16th century, Juan de Garay first began mapping out Buenos Aires here in the Spanish style grid style. Later, in ...more
Head just south of Buenos Aires’ main square and you’ll encounter some of the most beautiful sections of the city, complete with culturally and historically significant churches and other stone buildings ...more
Avenida de Mayo, the cafe-lined axis that connects Plaza de Mayo and Plaza del Congreso to the west, is one of the most important thoroughfares in the city. Named for the 1810 May Revolution, the avenue ...more
At once hectic, chaotic, and thrilling, Buenos Aires’ business district buzzes with astounding energy. Tourists, businesspeople, and shoppers crowd along its often narrow avenues, vying with the continual ...more
Galerías Pacífico. The designers of this huge shopping center envisioned a grand artcade modeled on Paris’ Bon Marché department store. They succeeded. Begun in 1889, the glitzy complex includes ...more
Just west of Avenida 9 de Julio lies the beautiful Plaza Lavalle, a three-block long park dotted with trees. With so many fewer tourists than the Plaza de Mayo, it’s a great place to relax. At its ...more
Though located only 10 minutes’ walk from Microcentro, San Telmo seems years away—around 140 years, to be exact. Once the city’s upper-class district, most of its original denizens left in 1871 ...more
Though not far south of the city center, gritty, blue-collar Boca seems miles away from the sleeker northern barrios, and its residents revel in their individuality, often referring to themselves as La ...more
Occupying a thin strip of land east of the city center, Buenos Aires’ newest barrio is also one of its ritziest. Originally developed in the 1880s to replace Boca as the city’s main port, Puerto Madero ...more
Once the retreat, or retiro, of a hermit, monks, and, later, a Spanish governor, Retiro has become one of Buenos Aires’ wealthiest and most beautiful barrios. At the beginning of the 20th century, ...more
The heart of Retiro, beautiful Plaza San Martín draws tourists and porteños to its palm tree-shaded paths and grassy expanses for relaxing strolls, romantic rendezvous, and picnics. Designed, like ...more
When a massive yellow fever epidemic struck San Telmo in the 1870s, its wealthy denizens chose Recoleta as their new home, probably because it was as far removed from San Telmo as possible. Since then ...more
Just across Palermo’s northern border with Recoleta, tiny Palermo Chico, one of the city’s wealthiest neighborhoods, centers on Plaza Chile and hosts many of the city’s embassies, as well as the ...more
Parque Tres De Febrero. No person can (or should) cover every inch of the Parque Tres de Febrero, 25 hectares of grassy splendor in the north of Palermo that end at the Jorge Newbery Airpark ...more
South from Av. Sante Fe, narrow cobblestone streets and low-slung townhouses comprise the residential sub-neighborhoods of Palermo Viejo, once popular among the city’s immigrant communities and home ...more
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