Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #5 in Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Number of sights 10 sights
Distance 3.5 km
Ascend 65 m
Descend 83 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: Juan de Garay

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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.

Wikipedia: Juan de Garay (EN)

192 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: Pink House

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Pink House Unknown / CC BY 2.5 ar

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.

Wikipedia: Casa Rosada (EN), Website

174 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Museo Casa Rosada

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Museo Casa Rosada Museo del Bicentenario / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: Museo Casa Rosada (ES), Website

533 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 4: Women's Bridge

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Women's BridgePhillip Capper from Wellington, New Zealand / CC BY 2.0

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.

Wikipedia: Puente de la Mujer (EN)

103 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Statue of Anne Frank

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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.

Wikipedia: Anne Frank (EN)

325 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: Buque Museo Fragata A.R.A. 'Presidente Sarmiento'

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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.

Wikipedia: ARA Presidente Sarmiento (EN)

689 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 7: Statue of Juan Manuel Fangio

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Statue of Juan Manuel Fangio

Juan Manuel Fangio was an Argentine racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1958. Nicknamed "El Chueco" and "El Maestro", Fangio won five Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles and—at the time of his retirement—held the record for most wins (24), pole positions (29), fastest laps (23), and podium finishes (35), among others.

Wikipedia: Juan Manuel Fangio (EN)

112 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Faena Arts Center

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Faena Arts Center Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires / CC BY 2.5 ar

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.

Wikipedia: Faena Arts Center (EN), Website

581 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 9: Museo del Humor

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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.

Wikipedia: Edificio de la Cervecería Munich (ES), Website

797 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 10: Parque Micaela Bastidas

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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.

Wikipedia: Parque Micaela Bastidas (ES)

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