What to see in Buenos Aires: the 15 essentials
The top 3 according to 23 votes from people: Puerto Madero and Puente de la Mujer · El Ateneo Grand Splendid · Plaza de Mayo and Casa Rosada. (Updated Mar 21, 2020.)
Neighbourhoods, historic cafés, cemeteries and museums that feature in every guide to the Argentine capital.
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Top 15
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1
Puerto Madero and Puente de la Mujer
Converted old docks with Calatrava's swing bridge and the Fragata Sarmiento museum ship.
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El Ateneo Grand Splendid
Bookshop set in a 1919 theatre with its stage and boxes intact.
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3
Plaza de Mayo and Casa Rosada
The founding square with the Cabildo, the Cathedral and the Casa Rosada, seat of government.
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4
Caminito (La Boca)
Lane of brightly painted corrugated-iron houses by the Riachuelo, near La Bombonera.
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5
Teatro Colón
1908 opera house, considered one of the best acoustically in the world; guided tours available.
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6
Recoleta Cemetery
Necropolis of marble mausoleums where Eva Perón is buried.
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Obelisco and Avenida 9 de Julio
The 67 m obelisk from 1936 on one of the world's widest avenues.
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8
La Bombonera stadium
Boca Juniors' stadium in La Boca, with a museum and guided tours.
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9
Floralis Genérica
23 m steel flower by architect Eduardo Catalano in United Nations Square.
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10
Costanera Sur Ecological Reserve
350 hectares of wetlands by the Río de la Plata, next to Puerto Madero.
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11
Café Tortoni
The city's oldest café (1858), on Avenida de Mayo, frequented by Borges and Gardel.
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12
Tango show
Dinner shows such as Café de los Angelitos or El Viejo Almacén, or a neighbourhood milonga.
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13
San Telmo and its fair
The oldest neighbourhood; on Sundays, an antiques fair on Calle Defensa and tango in Plaza Dorrego.
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14
MALBA
Latin American Art Museum with works by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Xul Solar.
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15
Palermo Woods and El Rosedal
Tres de Febrero Park with lakes and a rose garden of thousands of bushes.
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16
National Museum of Fine Arts
Free museum with the largest collection of Argentine art and works by Goya, Rembrandt and Van Gogh.
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17
Palermo Soho
Streets of design shops, bars and murals around Plaza Serrano.
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Comments (7)
La Recoleta parece mentira que sea un cementerio, es una ciudad en miniatura.
Caminito está lindo para la foto pero ojo con la zona, de día y por las calles principales.
El Ateneo Grand Splendid es una locura, una librería en un teatro antiguo. Imperdible.
Falta comer en una parrilla, che! Eso es lo más porteño que hay.
Es una lista de qué ver, no de dónde comer jaja. Igual tenés razón.
fui en 2019 y el café tortoni tenía una cola de una hora, no se si vale tanto la pena
La visita guiada del Colón vale cada peso, y si podés ver algo ahí, mejor todavía.