Buenos Aires The Outer Barrios

Belgrano

Belgrano, once the summer retreat of the city elite, has retained its suburban, upscale feel over the years. It’s what Palermo used to be like before it became Palermo: prosperous, but not yet overrun ...more

Chacarita And Colegiales

Identified by the sprawling cemetery that takes up most of the barrio, and the small but booming flower industry it supports, the tranquility of Chacarita’s streets seems well suited to a neighborhood ...more

Núñez And Saavedra

At the end of the 19th century, Buenos Aires’ elite, many of them fleeing the yellow fever epidemic to the south, began its push to settle the outlying areas of the city, stretching to present-day ...more

Almagro

Like Balvanera, Almagro is a grey, commercial barrio, and the region of Abasto spills over its borders. Though it has no major sights to speak of, the section of Abasto that falls within Almagro is ...more

Balvanera

Sprawling out west of Microcentro and Monserrat, Balvanera is a commercially important, if unattractive and cramped, barrio. Locals rarely call it by its official name, instead referring to its three main ...more

Caballito

South of Chacarita and west of Almagro, the middle-class and rambling barrio of Caballito centers on the unremarkable Plaza Primera Junta and is bisected by the very commercial Avenida Rivadavia. South ...more

Mataderos

Feria De Mataderos. On Sundays, a six-block stretch of Mataderos, a barrio in far southwestern Buenos Aires packed with porteños, becomes a mecca for those looking to go gaucho while still in the city ...more

Boedo And San Cristóbal

Though in some ways as working-class as the neighborhoods that surround it, Boedo is a barrio on the rise—again. In the 1920s, an artsy, leftist crowd, led by a group of important Argentine and Uruguayan ...more

Constitución

Just west of San Telmo and south of Monserrat, Constitución marks a definite transition to the other south—a part of the city that is grittier, poorer, and, let’s face it, uglier than the northern ...more