The best tourist attractions in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is one of the most beautiful cities in Latin America. It lacks the colonial elegance of Lima, the beauty of Rio's landscapes or the strong cultural imprint of Mexico City, but it is undoubtedly an important city. Buenos Aires is not colonialIt is the daughter of European immigration and that is visible in its streets, its buildings and the style of its people.

Buenos Aires is a city of contrasts because at the same time it is a Latin American city where there is as much wealth and elegance as there is poverty and insecurity. Anyway, compared to other American destinations, It's a safe city that knows how to welcome visitors and has many attractions that make it an unforgettable city. I leave you the best tourist attractions in Buenos Aires.

Teatro Colón

Teatro Colón

This it is one of the most important opera and ballet theaters in the world and recently it has undergone a great restoration, which today is in its second stage. It turned one hundred years old in 2008 and is located in the heart of the city. It occupies more than eight thousand square meters, five thousand of which belong to the central building and more than three thousand are in the basement adding more square meters to the total of the facilities.

The main hall of the theater has boxes up to the third floor and 28 meters high. It has capacity for 2.478 seated and 500 standing spectators. Its dome measures 318 square meters, the stage is 35 meters wide by 25 deep and 34 high. In addition, it has its own workshops and operates within an excellent ballet school. There are guided tours every day from 9 am to 5 pm and you enter through the old Carriage Passage, Tucumán 1171.

Casa Rosada

Casa Rosada

It is the presidential palace and is located on the Plaza de Mayo, the place of all the festivities and protests that mobilize Argentine society. It is the headquarters of the National Executive Power It stands on the site occupied in colonial times by a fortress built by the first governor, on the banks of the Río de la Plata, in the XNUMXth century.

You have guided tours that allow to know its rooms, galleries and internal courtyards. Today the Bicentennial Museum, two centuries of Argentine independence were celebrated in 2010, a site that you can visit from Wednesday to Sunday and holidays, from 10 am to 6 pm. The visit is complemented by a walk through the square, bordered by the Cathedral of Buenos Aires and the Cabildo, the historic center of the city.

Recoleta Cemetery

Recoleta Cemetery

It is the oldest cemetery in the city and as usual it concentrates the tombs and vaults of patrician families from the city. It is small and is located in the Recoleta neighborhood, the most expensive in Buenos Aires. In front of it there is a square that on weekends receives a colorful craft fair and a center for gastronomic venues. The tombs of the local oligarchy are decorated with artworks of great value, marble statues, iron work, which have turned this cemetery into a kind of museum.

There are also some tombs of important people on a political and cultural level: here it is the tomb of Eva Perón, for example, and also of presidents and the military. There are guided tours in multiple languages. I do not recommend going on a very hot day because there is no shade anywhere. The tour can end in the church that is next to the cemetery, old, and eating something in some of the nearby restaurants.

San Telmo

San Telmo

San Telmo is a picturesque neighborhood of Buenos Aires that has old buildings, narrow streets, restaurants, bars of all kinds and a square that every weekend houses a crafts and antiques fair very touristy. The square in turn is surrounded by restaurants and in the surrounding streets there are many other antique houses. It is a good place to walk leisurely, shop, eat, take photos and feel the age of a city that in other corners reveals itself to be very modern.

Corrientes Avenue

Nest Streams

Corrientes avenue is a street that never sleeps. You have many theaters that work all year round, in fact Buenos Aires is one of the cities with the most theatrical production in Latin America. There's also restaurants and pizzerias and although there are less, many used book sales and trade bookstores, record stores and some leather clothing stores they are there for tourists.

You have to go through Corrientes at night and get to the point where the Obelisk is, Avenida 9 de Julio, to have a good view of the city center. My advice is to eat some pizza standing up, there are emblematic places around here.

Museums in Buenos Aires

Museum of Decorative Art

Buenos Aires has several interesting museums. There is the Museum of Decorative Art that works in an elegant palace of the early twentieth century, the National museum of fine arts where you can appreciate Argentine painting and the MALBA, the Museum of Latin American Art.

National museum of fine arts

You can also visit the Evita Museum, in the area of ​​the Buenos Aires Zoo, where there will be a home for women. Here is a permanent display of objects by Eva Perón and a very good restaurant.

Evita House

Palermo Soho and Palermo Hollywood

Palermo-Soho

So far we have reviewed the most classic of Buenos Aires but for more than fifteen years there has been a Buenos Aires neighborhood that has grown a lot: Palermo. Before it was a quiet neighborhood of low houses, very wooded, but almost two decades ago an unparalleled gastronomic development began and the old houses were becoming bars and restaurants that open and close all the time.

In Palermo Soho the clothes shops, national brands and independent designers. There are also many restaurants and bars that open early and close late in the morning. On the side is Palermo Hollywood, across Avenida Juan B. Justo, there are bars and restaurants and fewer clothing stores. Hollwood has been christened because the audiovisual pole is located here and there are many hundred and television production companies.

As a tourist we can concentrate on Palermo Soho. The heart is Plaza Serrano. One more fact: clothes are not cheap, not even at change.

Puerto Madero

Puerto Madero

Puerto Madero is the area of ​​the old warehouses, over the river. There is a lot of land gained from the Río de la Plata and In the old warehouses and warehouses today there are restaurants, offices and hotels. It offers good walks and if you want to dine looking at skyscrapers that are reflected in the waters of the river, this is a good place. Another is the Fishermen's Club which is located in the area of ​​the municipal airport, at the tip of a long pier that goes much further into the brown waters of this huge river. Of course, you have to take a taxi and get away from the Puerto Madero area, but it is a different experience.


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  1.   Avi Diaz said

    Buenos Aires, if it has its colonial part, because it was indeed a colony, but obviously you do not know it and it seems that a large part of the city has been lost.