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Buenos Aires itinerary

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  1. 1

    Recoleta Cemetery - Marble Mausoleums and Evita's Grave

    Recoleta Cemetery is where almost every visitor to Buenos Aires ends up, and it earns the attention. Roughly 4,700 vaults line a walled grid of narrow lanes, many of them marble mausoleums with glass doors, bronze…

    Address
    Junin 1760, Recoleta, C1113 CABA
    Nearest transit
    Las Heras station (Subte Line H), 8-min walk; bus 60, 92 and 110 stop on Avenida Las Heras
  2. 2

    Plaza de Mayo and the Casa Rosada - The Political Heart of the City

    Plaza de Mayo has been the stage for Argentine politics since the May Revolution of 1810: Peron's balcony speeches, the 1955 bombing, the crowds of December 2001. The pink presidential palace, the Casa Rosada, closes…

    Address
    Balcarce 50, Monserrat, C1064 CABA
    Nearest transit
    Plaza de Mayo station (Subte Line A) or Catedral (Line D), both a 2-min walk; Bolivar (Line E) is 4 min
  3. 3

    Teatro Colon - One of the World's Great Opera Houses

    Teatro Colon opened in 1908 after twenty years of construction and three architects, two of whom died before the doors ever opened. The main hall seats about 2,500 with standing room for several hundred more, and its…

    Address
    Cerrito 628, San Nicolas, C1010 CABA
    Nearest transit
    Tribunales station (Subte Line D), 1-min walk; Uruguay (Line B) is 5 min
  4. 4

    Caminito and La Boca - Painted Houses at the Old Port

    La Boca grew up at the mouth of the Riachuelo as a Genoese dockworkers' neighbourhood. The corrugated iron houses were painted with leftover marine paint scrounged from the shipyards, which is why no two walls match…

    Address
    Caminito 1200, La Boca, C1169 CABA
    Nearest transit
    No Subte line serves La Boca. The closest station is Constitucion (Line C), about 2.5 km away; take bus 29, 64 or 152 from the centre, or a 15-minute taxi from Plaza de Mayo
  5. 5

    San Telmo and the Feria de San Telmo - Sunday Antiques on Cobblestones

    San Telmo is the oldest surviving barrio in Buenos Aires, laid out in the eighteenth century and left largely intact after the wealthy families fled north to Recoleta during the yellow fever epidemic of 1871. Cobbled…

    Address
    Plaza Dorrego, Defensa 1098, San Telmo, C1065 CABA
    Nearest transit
    Independencia station (Subte Lines C and E), 7-min walk; Belgrano (Line E) is 6 min
  6. 6

    Palermo Soho and the Bosques de Palermo - Design Shops and City Parkland

    Palermo is the largest barrio in the city and splits into informal sub-districts. Palermo Soho, the grid around Plaza Julio Cortazar where Serrano meets Honduras, holds most of the independent clothing labels, leather…

    Address
    Plaza Julio Cortazar, Jorge Luis Borges 1700, Palermo, C1414 CABA
    Nearest transit
    Plaza Italia station (Subte Line D), 10-min walk to Plaza Julio Cortazar and 2 min to the Bosques de Palermo
  7. 7

    El Ateneo Grand Splendid - A Bookshop Inside a 1919 Theatre

    El Ateneo Grand Splendid opened in 1919 as a theatre with 1,050 seats, became a cinema in the 1920s showing Argentina's first sound films, and was converted into a bookshop in 2000 without anyone gutting the interior…

    Address
    Avenida Santa Fe 1860, Recoleta, C1123 CABA
    Nearest transit
    Callao station (Subte Line D), 3-min walk
  8. 8

    Puerto Madero and the Puente de la Mujer - Reclaimed Docks and a Rotating Bridge

    Puerto Madero is the newest barrio in Buenos Aires, built from 1990 onward out of four disused brick docks that had been obsolete almost from the day they opened in 1897. The warehouses along the western quays now hold…

    Address
    Puente de la Mujer, Dique 3, Juana Manuela Gorriti 200, Puerto Madero, C1107 CABA
    Nearest transit
    No Subte station serves Puerto Madero directly. Use Leandro N. Alem (Line B) or Catedral (Line D) and walk 12 to 15 minutes east across Avenida Alicia Moreau de Justo
  9. 9

    A Tango Show or Milonga - Seeing the Dance Properly

    Tango in Buenos Aires splits into two things. A show is staged, choreographed and usually sold with dinner, running roughly EUR 60 to EUR 120 a head at the large houses in San Telmo and Puerto Madero - polished, and…

    Address
    La Catedral Club, Sarmiento 4006, Almagro, C1197 CABA
    Nearest transit
    Medrano station (Subte Line B), 4-min walk
  10. 10

    The Tigre Delta - A Day Trip Into the River Islands

    The Parana Delta begins about 28 km north of the city, where the river breaks into thousands of wooded islands laced with brown channels. Tigre is the town on its edge and the jumping-off point. Around 3,000 people live…

    Address
    Estacion Fluvial de Tigre, Mitre 305, Tigre, B1648 Buenos Aires Province
    Nearest transit
    No Subte reaches Tigre. Take the Mitre line train from Retiro to Tigre, about 55 minutes, or change at Maipu for the Tren de la Costa. Retiro itself is served by Subte Lines C and E

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