18 of the best · Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Teatro Colón, the Recoleta Cemetery, the Plaza de Mayo and the Casa Rosada, the Palacio Barolo, El Ateneo Grand Splendid, San Telmo’s Sunday fair, Caminito and the docks.
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Three Buenos Aires addresses we would send a friend to first: a performance at the Teatro Colón, a steak at Don Julio and tea at the Alvear Palace.
Opera, ballet and tours
One of the great opera houses of the world: a horseshoe of red and gold, with its own ballet, orchestra and chorus. Tours and performances.
A city of marble
A walled city of marble mausoleums, chapels and sculpture, with streets and avenues of its own.
On Sundays
Antiques, crafts and tango on the cobbles of the Calle Defensa and the Plaza Dorrego, every Sunday.
The Colón, the marble city of Recoleta, the Plaza de Mayo and La Boca: Buenos Aires in the right order.
The back story
The Teatro Colón, the marble city of the dead at Recoleta, the Plaza de Mayo, the painted street of La Boca and the docks of Puerto Madero: how to see Buenos Aires, and in what order.
The opera, the square and the avenues.
A theatre of books
A bookshop in an old theatre on the Avenida Santa Fe, with the boxes, the painted dome and a café on the stage.
A lighthouse on the Avenida
The office tower on the Avenida de Mayo built on the plan of Dante’s Divine Comedy, with a lighthouse at the top. Guided visits.
Avenida de Mayo 1370, C1085ABQ Buenos AiresExplore View on map
The pink house
The pink seat of government on the Plaza de Mayo, with guided visits.
On the Plaza de Mayo
The cathedral of Buenos Aires on the Plaza de Mayo, behind its neoclassical portico.
The heart of the city
The white obelisk at the crossing of Corrientes and the vast Avenida 9 de Julio.
Where the city began
The founding square of Buenos Aires, with the Cabildo, the cathedral and the pink Casa Rosada.
Opera, ballet and tours
One of the great opera houses of the world: a horseshoe of red and gold, with its own ballet, orchestra and chorus. Tours and performances.
Marble and palaces.
A city of marble
A walled city of marble mausoleums, chapels and sculpture, with streets and avenues of its own.
Cobbles and colour.
The painted street
The short street of houses painted in bright colours by the old port of La Boca.
Boca Juniors
The stadium of Boca Juniors, and its museum of the club’s history.
Brandsen 805, La Boca, Buenos AiresExplore View on map
On Sundays
Antiques, crafts and tango on the cobbles of the Calle Defensa and the Plaza Dorrego, every Sunday.
Iron and glass
The iron-and-glass market hall of San Telmo, with antiques, produce and food stalls.
The docks and beyond.
The docks
The old docks turned into a riverside quarter of brick warehouses, towers and restaurants, crossed by the white Puente de la Mujer.
Sober and essential.
World Heritage, 2023
The former navy school where opponents of the military regime of 1976–83 were held, tortured and killed, now a museum and site of memory on the UNESCO list.
The Shoah
The museum of the Holocaust (the Shoah), with its permanent exhibition, testimony of survivors who settled in Argentina, and education programmes.
Montevideo 919, C1019 Buenos AiresExplore View on map
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