Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Number of sights 29 sights
Distance 6.8 km
Ascend 98 m
Descend 107 m

Experience Buenos Aires in Argentina in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in Buenos AiresIndividual Sights in Buenos Aires

Sight 1: Los Angeles

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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.

Wikipedia: Multiespacio Los Ángeles (ES)

136 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: Teatro Presidente Alvear

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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.

Wikipedia: Teatro Alvear (ES)

138 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Teatro General San Martín

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Teatro General San Martín Unknown authorUnknown author / CC BY 2.5 ar

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.

Wikipedia: Teatro General San Martín (EN)

224 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Apolo

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Apolo

The Apolo Theater is located at 1372 Corrientes Avenue in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the same site where the theater that originally bore that name was founded in 1886.

Wikipedia: Teatro Apolo (Buenos Aires) (ES)

26 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 5: Teatro Metropolitano

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The Metropolitan Theater is one of the classic theaters of Corrientes Avenue, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Wikipedia: Teatro Metropolitan (Buenos Aires) (ES), Website

247 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Teatro Broadway

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Teatro Broadway

The Teatro Broadway is an Art Deco style theatre in Buenos Aires, Argentina which opened on October 11, 1930.

Wikipedia: Broadway Theatre (Buenos Aires) (EN)

142 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Obelisco

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ObeliscoRodrigo Paredes from Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina / CC BY 2.0

The Obelisco de Buenos Aires is a national historic monument and icon of Buenos Aires. Located in the Plaza de la República in the intersection of avenues Corrientes and 9 de Julio, it was erected in 1936 to commemorate the quadricentennial of the first foundation of the city.

Wikipedia: Obelisco de Buenos Aires (EN)

698 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 8: Museo de la Mujer

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The Museum of Argentine Women was created on August 11, 2006 and is located at Pasaje Rivarola 147 in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. It was declared of cultural interest by the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation by Resolution O.D. No. 2378 June 2007. Among its purposes, it seeks to be an archive and preserve the cultural history of women, through the promotion and production of art, from dialectics and emphasizing the gender perspective as a construction of the signifier.

Wikipedia: Museo de la Mujer Argentina (ES)

464 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 9: José Manuel Estrada

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José Manuel Estrada

José Manuel Estrada was an Argentine professor, writer, politician, intellectual and eminent orator, representative of Catholic thought.

Wikipedia: José Manuel Estrada (pensador) (ES)

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Sight 10: Plaza Lorea

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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.

Wikipedia: Plaza del Congreso (EN)

71 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Plazoleta del Mercado Modelo

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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.

Wikipedia: Mercado Modelo (Buenos Aires) (ES)

141 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Mariano Moreno

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Mariano Moreno

Mariano Moreno was an Argentine lawyer, journalist, and politician. He played a decisive role in the Primera Junta, the first national government of Argentina, created after the May Revolution.

Wikipedia: Mariano Moreno (EN)

90 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: The Thinker

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The Thinker, by Auguste Rodin, is a bronze sculpture situated atop a stone pedestal depicting 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.

Wikipedia: The Thinker (EN)

56 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: Alfredo Palacios

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Alfredo Palacios

Alfredo Lorenzo Palacios was an Argentine socialist politician.

Wikipedia: Alfredo Palacios (EN)

7 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 15: Kilómetro Cero

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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.

Wikipedia: Argentina km 0 (ES)

381 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 16: Confitería El Molino

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Confitería El Molino

The Confitería del Molino is an historical Art Nouveau style confitería (coffeehouse) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, located in front of the Palace of the National Congress and the Congressional Plaza, on the intersection of Callao and Rivadavia avenues in the barrio of Balvanera.

Wikipedia: Confitería del Molino (EN), Website

756 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 17: Patio de las Palmeras

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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)

640 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 18: Parroquia Nuestra Señora de Montserrat

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The Parish Church of Nuestra Señora de Montserrat is a Roman Catholic church in the autonomous city of Buenos Aires.

Wikipedia: Parish Nuestra Señora de Montserrat (Buenos Aires) (EN), Website

485 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 19: Teatro Avenida

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Teatro AvenidaBeatrice Murch from Buenos Aires, Argentina / CC BY 2.0

The Avenida Theatre is a theatre in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Wikipedia: Avenida Theatre (EN)

257 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 20: Andrés Guacurarí y Artigas

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Andrés Guacurarí, Andrés Guasurarí or Andrés Guaçurarí y Artigas, known as Comandante Andresito, was a Guaraní missionary military officer and caudillo. He was one of the first federal caudillos of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata. Of Guaraní origin, he governed between 1815 and 1819 the Province of the Missions, of which the current Argentine province of the same name is only a remnant. He was one of the most faithful collaborators of the general of the Banda Oriental José Gervasio Artigas, who sponsored him and adopted him as a son; allowing him to sign as Andrés Artigas.

Wikipedia: Andresito Guazurarí (ES)

99 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 21: Cataratas del Iguazú, Misiones

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The monument to the Iguazu cataracts is located in the Plazoleta Province of Misiones, at the corner of May Avenue and 9 de Julio Avenue in Buenos Aires (Argentina). It is located in one of the most central points of the city, a few blocks from the Obelisk and the Casa Rosada. It was inaugurated on December 11, 2013.

Wikipedia: Monumento a las cataratas del Iguazú (ES)

201 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 22: Club Español

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The Spanish Club is located at 172/78 Bernardo de Irigoyen Street, meters from the intersection between Avenida 9 de Julio and Avenida de Mayo, in the neighborhood of Monserrat, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Wikipedia: Club Español (Buenos Aires) (ES)

295 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 23: Iglesia San Juan Bautista

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Iglesia San Juan Bautista

The Church of San Juan Bautista, known at the end of the nineteenth century as "San Juan de los franceses", because it was frequented by the French community of Buenos Aires, where they showed special devotion to an image of San Bernardo, is a Catholic church located on Alsina Street, on the corner of Piedras, in the neighborhood of Monserrat, in Buenos Aires. The primitive church was built in 1654, given its poor condition it was rebuilt in 1719. It was completely rebuilt in 1767, demolished in 1778 to build the current construction, completed in 1797. In 1942 it was declared a National Historic Monument by decree of the PEN. It was also known as the "church of the Basques", because the Betharramite or "Bayonese" fathers who managed it carried out their apostolate for the Basque community.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de San Juan Bautista (Buenos Aires) (ES)

451 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 24: Tritón

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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.

Wikipedia: Triton (mythology) (EN)

64 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 25: Legislatura de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires

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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

105 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 26: Julio Argentino Roca

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The monument to Julio Argentino Roca, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a work made up of three bronze sculptures on a red polished granite base. Inaugurated in 1941, he honors Lieutenant General Julio Argentino Roca (1843–1914), political, military and statesman Argentine, architect of the desert conquest, twice president of the Argentine nation and representative of the so -called generation of the eighties that directed the Argentine politics for more than thirty years.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Julio Argentino Roca (Buenos Aires) (ES)

228 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 27: Edificio Otto Wulff

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Otto Wulff building is a historic building of Buenos Aires. It is located in the corner of Belgrano and Peru, neighborhood of Monserrat.

Wikipedia: Otto Wulff Building (EN)

61 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 28: Iglesia Presbiteriana San Andrés

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Iglesia Presbiteriana San Andrés

The San Andrés Presbyterian Church is a Christian church whose origin dates back to the arrival of Scottish settlers in Argentina at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Wikipedia: Iglesia Presbiteriana San Andrés (ES)

368 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 29: Plazoleta Intendente Joaquín S. de Anchorena

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Plazoleta Intendente Joaquín S. de Anchorena

Joaquín Samuel de Anchorena (1876–1961) was an Argentine lawyer and politician, noted for being mayor of Buenos Aires between 1910 and 1914.

Wikipedia: Joaquín Samuel de Anchorena (EN)

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