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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Buenos Aires, Argentina! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Buenos Aires. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
Sightseeing Tours in Buenos AiresActivities in Buenos Aires1. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
The National Museum of Fine Arts is an Argentine art museum in Buenos Aires, located in the Recoleta section of the city. The Museum inaugurated a branch in Neuquén in 2004. The museum hosts works by Goya, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Rodin, Manet and Chagall among other artists.
Wikipedia: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires) (EN), Website
2. Teatro Colón
The Teatro Colón is a historic opera house in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is considered one of the ten best opera houses in the world by National Geographic. According to a survey carried out by the acoustics expert Leo Beranek among leading international opera and orchestra directors, the Teatro Colón has the room with the best acoustics for opera and the second best for concerts in the world.
3. Pink House
The Casa Rosada, literally the Pink House, is the president of the Argentine Republic's official workplace, located in Buenos Aires. The palatial mansion is known officially as Casa de Gobierno. Normally, the president lives at the Quinta de Olivos, the president of Argentina's official residence, located in Olivos, Greater Buenos Aires. The characteristic color of the Casa Rosada is baby pink, and it is considered one of the most emblematic buildings in Buenos Aires. The building also houses a museum, which contains objects relating to former presidents of Argentina. It has been declared a National Historic Monument of Argentina.
4. Women's Bridge
The Puente de la Mujer is a rotating footbridge for Dock 3 of the Puerto Madero commercial district of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is of the cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge type and is also a swing bridge, but somewhat unusual in its asymmetrical arrangement. It has a single mast with cables suspending a portion of the bridge which rotates 90 degrees in order to allow water traffic to pass. When it swings to allow watercraft passage, the far end comes to a resting point on a stabilizing pylon.
5. El Ateneo Grand Splendid
El Ateneo Grand Splendid is a bookshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2008, The Guardian placed it as the second most beautiful bookshop in the world. In 2019, it was named the "world's most beautiful bookstore" by the National Geographic.
6. Statue of Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank was a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary documenting her life in hiding amid Nazi persecution during the German occupation of the Netherlands. A celebrated diarist, Frank described everyday life from her family's hiding place in an Amsterdam attic. She gained fame posthumously and became one of the most-discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl, which documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944. It is one of the world's best-known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.
7. El Abuelo Inmortal
José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras, nicknamed "the Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru", was an Argentine general and the primary leader of the southern and central parts of South America's successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire who served as the Protector of Peru. Born in Yapeyú, Corrientes, in modern-day Argentina, he left the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata at the early age of seven to study in Málaga, Spain.
8. Piloto de la Fuerza Aérea Argentina
The Argentine Air Force is the air force of Argentina and branch of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic. In 2018, it had 13,837 military and 6,900 civilian personnel. FAA commander in chief is brigadier mayor Fernando Mengo.
9. The Thinker
The Thinker is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin, situated atop a stone pedestal. The work depicts a nude male figure of heroic size sitting on a rock. He is seen leaning over, his right elbow placed on his left thigh, holding the weight of his chin on the back of his right hand. The pose is one of deep thought and contemplation, and the statue is often used as an image to represent philosophy.
10. Soldado del Ejército Argentino
The Argentine Army is the land force branch of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic and the senior military service of Argentina. Under the Argentine Constitution, the president of Argentina is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, exercising his or her command authority through the Minister of Defense.
11. Tritón
Triton is a Greek god of the sea, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite. Triton lived with his parents in a golden palace on the bottom of the sea. Later he is often depicted as having a conch shell he would blow like a trumpet.
12. Stadium Luna Park
Estadio Luna Park is a multi-purpose arena in Buenos Aires. Located at the corner of Avenida Corrientes and Avenida Bouchard; in the San Nicolás neighborhood. Initially, the arena primarily hosted boxing and other sporting events. In the 1950s, it was expanded to host stage shows and concerts.
13. Recoleta Cemetry
La Recoleta Cemetery is a cemetery located in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It contains the graves of notable people, including Eva Perón, presidents of Argentina, Nobel Prize winners, the founder of the Argentine Navy, and military commanders such as Julio Argentino Roca. In 2011, the BBC hailed it as one of the world's best cemeteries, and in 2013, CNN listed it among the 10 most beautiful cemeteries in the world.
14. Buque Museo Corbeta A.R.A. Uruguay
The corbeta (corvette) ARA Uruguay, built in England, is the largest ship afloat of its age in the Armada de la República Argentina, with more than 140 years passed since its commissioning in September 1874. The last of the legendary squadron of President Sarmiento, the Uruguay took part in revolutions, ransoms, expeditions, rescues, and was even floating headquarters of the Navy School. During its operational history 1874–1926 the Uruguay has served as a gunboat, school ship, expedition support ship, Antarctic rescue ship, fisheries base supply ship, and hydrographic survey vessel, and is now a museum ship in Buenos Aires. The ship was built in 1874 at Laird Bros. shipyard of Birkenhead, England, at a cost of £32,000. This ship is rigged to a barque sailplan. The ship's steel hull is sheathed in teak.
15. Juan de Garay
Juan de Garay (1528–1583) was a Spanish conquistador. Garay's birthplace is disputed. Some say it was in the city of Junta de Villalba de Losa in Castile, while others argue he was born in the area of Orduña. There's no birth certification whatsoever, though Juan De Garay regarded himself as somebody from Biscay. He served under the Crown of Castille, in the Viceroyalty of Peru. He was governor of Asunción and founded a number of cities in present-day Argentina, many near the Paraná River area, including the second foundation of Buenos Aires, in 1580.
16. Monumento al General San Martín
The Monument to General San Martín and the Armies of Independence, located in the Plaza Genera San Martín in the city of Buenos Aires, is an equestrian monument in bronze on a base of polished red granite that honors the Argentine national hero, and four important milestones related to American independence: Departure to War, Battle, Victory and The Return of the Victor.
Wikipedia: Monumento al General San Martín y a los Ejércitos de la Independencia (ES)
17. Museo de Arte Popular José Hernández
The José Hernández Museum of Popular Art is part of the network of public museums of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires. Its objective is to collect, research, preserve, exhibit and promote Argentine popular art in its different variants. Its collection is made up of pieces of various specialties and traditional and contemporary crafts. Its mission is to prioritize popular art and crafts as identity heritage and to promote the activity of artisans, value them as cultural creators and highlight their creativity, talent, manual skill and respect for the craft.
Wikipedia: Museo de Arte Popular José Hernández (ES), Website
18. Buque Museo Fragata A.R.A. 'Presidente Sarmiento'
ARA Presidente Sarmiento is a museum ship in Argentina, originally built as a training ship for the Argentine Navy and named after Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, the seventh President of Argentina. It is considered to be the last intact cruising training ship from the 1890s.
19. Legislatura de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
The Buenos Aires Legislature Palace houses the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is an architectural landmark in the city's Montserrat district, situated in a triangular block bounded by the streets Hipólito Yrigoyen Street, Presidente Julio A. Roca Avenue and Perú Street. Built of grey granite, it has a Neoclassical design. The building is open to the public on week-days only. The building contains the Esteban Echeverría Library, Salón Rosado, and a carillon which, when it was installed in 1930, was the largest in South America.
Wikipedia: Buenos Aires City Legislature Palace (EN), Website
20. Museo Casa de Ricardo Rojas
In 1927 Ricardo Rojas commissioned the construction of his house to the architect Ángel Guido, giving rise to the meeting of two protagonists of the national culture. Rojas asked that the construction be based on his book Eurindia, which proposed a new interpretation of American history. The house at 2837 Charcas, whose façade bears a strong resemblance to La Casa de Tucumán, was home to the writer from 1929 to 1957. It currently belongs to the National State, in response to Rojas' own request that the house be converted into a museum after his death and that of his wife.
21. Plaza Doctor Bernardo Houssay
The Plaza Doctor Bernardo H. Houssay is a public green space of approximately one hectare that is located on the border of the Recoleta neighborhood with that of Balvanera, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
22. Museo de Informática
The Museum of Informatics of the Argentine Republic is a museum based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is managed by the ICATEC Foundation, and was founded in 2010; with the aim of conserving, preserving, and disseminating the computer heritage, as well as safeguarding the memory of the pioneers of the field of computer science in Argentina. It has its own collection of more than 2000 objects, as well as a library with books, manuals, software and magazines on the subject.
Wikipedia: Museo de Informática de la República Argentina (ES), Website
23. Plaza Lorea
Plaza del Congreso is a public park facing the Argentine Congress in Buenos Aires. The plaza is part of a 3 hectare open space comprising three adjoining plazas to the east of the Congress building. The Kilometre Zero for all Argentine National Highways is marked on a milestone at the plaza.
24. Edificio La Inmobiliaria
The La Inmobiliaria Building is a neo-Renaissance style building inaugurated in 1910 and built for the insurance company of the same name, founded by Antonio Devoto. It has two twin reddish domes, one in each corner, which characterize it. It is located in the neighborhood of Monserrat, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
25. Patio de las Palmeras
The building of the Central Department of the Argentine Federal Police is the headquarters of that police force, located in the neighborhood of Monserrat, belonging to commune 1 of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is considered a National Historic Monument by the National Commission of Monuments, Places and Historical Assets.
Wikipedia: Departamento Central de la Policía Federal Argentina (edificio) (ES)
26. Museo de la Deuda Externa
The Museum of Foreign Debt was opened on April 28, 2005, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The museum highlights the dangers of borrowing money from abroad. There are no English translations in the museum, everything is in the Spanish language. The 1998–2002 Argentine great depression that drove the 2001 riots in Argentina prompted the largest foreign debt default in history – approximately $100 billion USD.
27. Museo del Humor
The Museum Center of Buenos Aires was the headquarters of the General Directorate of Museums of the City of Buenos Aires, which changed its name since 2016 to the General Directorate of Heritage, Museums and Historic Centre. Since 2002 it has occupied the old building of the Munich Brewery, the work of the Hungarian architect Andrés Kálnay, built in 1927 meters from what was the Costanera Sur, current neighborhood of Puerto Madero.
28. Faena Arts Center
Faena Art Center is the cultural center of the Faena District Buenos Aires, a residential and cultural community in the Puerto Madero waterfront in Buenos Aires developed by the Faena Group and opened in September 2011. Alan Faena founded the center. Ximena Caminos is the Executive Director.
29. Museo del Holocausto
The Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires is intended to keep the memory of the Shoah alive and disseminate what happened during the genocide of the Jewish people to Argentine society, collecting an extensive archive of documents and personal objects donated by those who suffered persecution and immigrated from Europe.
Wikipedia: Museo del Holocausto (Buenos Aires) (ES), Website
30. Teatro General San Martín
The Teatro General San Martín is an important public theater in Buenos Aires, located on Corrientes Avenue and adjacent to the cultural center of the same name. It is one of the major theaters in Argentina and offers venues for the representation of stage works and film, as well as art exhibitions.
31. Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Cinema specialized in children's films produced by Disney. The building is on Avenida Corrientes 1764, Buenos Aires, an artery where theater spaces abound and, in other times, cinemas.
32. Plaza Intendente Alvear
Plaza Intendente Alvear is a public space in Recoleta, Buenos Aires. It is commonly but mistakenly known as Plaza Francia, as the actual Plaza Francia is located at its side. It faces the Recoleta Cemetery and the cultural center.
33. Monumento a Eva Perón
The Monument to Eva Perón in the city of Buenos Aires is located in the square located on Avenida del Libertador between Agüero and Austria, on the grounds of the National Library, which was renamed Evita Perón instead of the previous name of Rubén Darío. It was inaugurated by President Carlos Menem on December 3, 1999 before being completed, due to the fact that he left office on the 10th of that month. There was a previous monument project, approved in 1952, which was not completed due to the overthrow of the Peronist government in September 1955.
34. Museo del Libro y de la Lengua Horacio González
The Horacio González Museum of the Book and Language, formerly the Museum of the Book and Language, is a museum annexed to the National Library of the Argentine Republic, designed by Clorindo Testa and inaugurated in 2011.
Wikipedia: Museo del Libro y de la Lengua Horacio González (ES), Website
35. Parque Micaela Bastidas
The Micaela Bastidas Park is a public space in the neighborhood of Puerto Madero, city of Buenos Aires. It is characterized by a large elevated promenade on an embankment with stairs that runs along it, along which different sectors are articulated, such as a rose garden, a sports area and a children's playground. The park has 8 hectares and more than 40,000 trees, shrubs.
36. Monumento a los Caídos en Malvinas
The Monumento a los caídos en Malvinas is a cenotaph in Plaza San Martín, in Buenos Aires, dedicated to the 649 Argentine soldiers who were killed in the Falklands War. The inscription reads La nación también rinde homenaje a los que guardan en su cuerpo o memoria las huellas del combate.
37. Museo Nacional de Arte Oriental
The National Museum of Oriental Art (MNAO) is an Argentine museum located in the city of Buenos Aires. Its objective is to preserve and disseminate the material productions of Asian, African and Oceanic cultures.
38. Monumento ecuestre a Carlos María de Alvear
The Monumento ecuestre a Carlos María de Alvear located on Plaza Julio de Caro, a landmark in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and was raised in honor of Carlos María de Alvear (1788-1852).
39. Plaza Roma
Plaza Roma is a public green space in the center of the City of Buenos Aires. It is located on the axis of Leandro N. Alem Avenue and in an area of great building density where the glass towers of corporate offices stand out.
40. Catedral de San Marón
The St. Maron's Cathedral also called Maronite Catholic Cathedral of Buenos Aires is a religious building of the Catholic Church (Maronite) located at 834 Paraguay Street, in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Not to be confused with the metropolitan cathedral of Latin rite of the Holy Trinity, the cathedral of the military bishopric also of Latin rite or the Armenian Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of Narek, all in the city of Buenos Aires.
41. Plaza Libertad
Plaza Libertad is a public square located in the Retiro neighborhood of the city of Buenos Aires. Located on Cerrito Street, next to 9 de Julio Avenue, it has on one of its sides the Coliseo Theater, the modern Libertad Plaza Building and underground there is a municipal parking lot.
42. Plazoleta del Mercado Modelo
The Mercado Modelo was a shopping center that was located in front of the Plaza Lorea in Buenos Aires. Its short existence ended with the opening of Avenida de Mayo, when it was demolished. In 1883 the Mercado Nuevo Modelo was inaugurated, on the corner of Sarmiento and Montevideo streets, which operated until its demolition in 1889. Today its place is occupied by Paseo La Plaza.
43. Plaza Ramón J. Cárcano
The Plaza Ramón J. Cárcano is a green space in the Recoleta neighborhood of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, which is part of the traditional Paseo de la Recoleta. It is bounded by Presidente Quintana Avenue, Alvear Avenue, and Presidente Ortiz and Presidente Haedo Streets. It received that name in 1967 in homage to Ramón José Cárcano, a conservative politician with an extensive career who became governor of the Province of Córdoba. Initially, the square received imprecise boundaries, which were corrected by an ordinance just three months later. At first, the space also included the current Plaza Juan XXIII, until its boundaries were defined in 1975.
44. Plaza Dante
Plaza Dante is a green space in the Recoleta neighborhood of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, which is part of the traditional Paseo de la Recoleta. Oval in shape, it is bounded by Pueyrredón, Del Libertador, Figueroa Alcorta avenues and Emilio Pettoruti Street. It was named in 1963 in homage to Dante Alighieri, as part of the celebrations for its seventh centenary.
45. Maipo
Teatro Maipo is a historic theatre in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was founded in 1908 by entrepreneur Charles Seguin, and was first called the Scala Theater. It later changed its name to the Esmerelda Theatre and eventually to the Maipo theatre. It has closed and reopened several times, most recently in 1994. The history of the Maipo theatre is the subject of a novel by historian Carlos Schwarzer.
46. Museo Casa Rosada
The Casa Rosada Museum is an Argentine museum located in the old galleries of the Taylor Customs House in the city of Buenos Aires, inaugurated on May 24, 2011. It functions as an annex to the Casa Rosada and exhibits some 10,000 historical pieces that belonged to many presidents of the Argentine Republic, originating from the collection of the Casa Rosada Presidential Museum. It was inaugurated in 2011 during the presidency of Cristina Kirchner.
47. National Library Mariano Moreno
The Mariano Moreno National Library, better known as the National Library, is the most important depository library in Argentina. It was created in 1810 by the First Board as a public library in the Cabildo of Buenos Aires. The library was later nationalized and framed within the Executive Branch. In 1996, it was granted the status of a decentralized and autarkic organization and it was established that its objectives are to "guard, increase, preserve, register and disseminate the printed memory of the culture" of the country. Its headquarters are located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Recoleta.
Wikipedia: Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina (ES), Website, Instagram
48. Teatro Presidente Alvear
The Presidente Alvear Theater is located in the San Nicolás neighborhood of the City of Buenos Aires, precisely on Avenida Corrientes 1659, and is one of the theaters dependent on the Ministry of Culture of that city.
49. Teatro Opera
The Opera Theater is located at 860 Corrientes Avenue in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 200 meters from the Obelisk of that city. Ava Gardner, Édith Piaf, Mina Mazzini, the Folies Bergère, the Lido de Paris, Fairuz, R5 (band) among other international artists performed there, as well as local artists such as Mercedes Sosa, Los Abuelos de la Nada who recorded their album live, or the Ariel Ramírez Folklore Company, with Jaime Torres and Las Voces Blancas, at the premiere of the precursor film of the mockumentary genre. Chronicle for a future, in 1967.
50. Kilómetro Cero
Kilometer zero is a monolith that symbolizes the starting point of Argentina's road network. It is located in Buenos Aires in Plaza Mariano Moreno, and not, as is mistakenly believed, in its neighboring Plaza del Congreso.
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