Buenos Aires Attractions
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Buenos Aires Tour Guide
Take a Tour of Buenos Aires and explore the many attractions with Buddha, your tour guide, who will also be your driver for the day. He is extremely knowledgable of the history of Buenos Aires and speaks perfect English. The Tour consist of visiting major sites.
Price: $50 USD Duration: 4 hours. You can take the tour in the morning or afternoon.
Downtown Buenos Aires
Offers access to unlimited activities, sightseeing, and local attractions. As the capital city of Argentina, Buenos Aires is an energetic and seductive city with a pulsating nightlife, alive with the tempo of tango. Buenos Aires is a huge and hectic city, in which you can get around by bus, train, underground, taxi, or mini-cabs. You can travel to the rest of the country by long distance buses, train or airplane. International flights arrive/depart from Ministro Pistarini (at Ezeiza), which is located approx 40 min from Downtown Buenos Aires or 20 minutes aprox. from our Bed and breakfast.
Teatro Colon
The Teatro Colon needs little introduction to those familiar with the opera. As one of the world's premier opera houses, it has hosted the likes of Maria Callas, Toscanini, Stravinsky, and Caruso. Tickets are hard to come by, as many of the theater´s 3,500 seats are held by season ticket holders. A guided tour lets the visitor glimpse the inner workings of this eminent center of opera.
Plaza de Mayo
The Plaza de Mayo is the city center (the city, in fact, was literally built around it), some of Argentina´s most important historical events took place here. Surrounding it is the Government House, the Metropolitan Cathedral, and the Cabildo (town hall). Today the Plaza probably owes most of its fame to the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, the women who still show up in the square seeking information on the deseparecidos, their loved ones who vanished during the Dirty War.
The Recoleta
This area is the most fashionable place in Buenos Aires to dine; it is adjacent to the Cementario de la Recoleta, Eva Peron´s final resting place. Along with Evita´s much-visited grave, there is Our Lady of the Pilar Church, the Cultural Center, and the Palais de Glace, a major gallery. You can walk along the Pilar, which brims with a wide variety of restaurants and venue featuring live music every night.
The Recoleta´s Cemetery
It´s not very often that a Cemetery would feature as a tourist must-see, but the necropolis at Recoleta is an astonishing exception to the rule. Recoleta is Buenos Aires ritziest and wealthiest neighborhood, with superb old mansions along the Avenida Alvear. Nowhere is this elitism better displayed than at the resting ground of the rich and famous at the Recoleta´s Cemetery.
San Telmo
San Telmo is widely hailed as the most picturesque part of Buenos Aires. Cobblestone streets and colonial buildings set the atmosphere for an array of antique shops and boutiques, tango parlors and cafes.
La Boca
Perhaps the most colorful area in Buenos Aires is La Boca (the Mouth), which sits along the port. Here an assortment of brightly painted low houses made of wood and metal burst upon the eyes in a scene that could almost be from some- where in Scandinavia. The main street here is Caminito, which has an artisans and painters fair, open air tango shows, and typical Italian cantinas.
The Parque Lezama
This is one of the city´s most attractive parks--enormous magnolias, palms, and cedar elms grace the winding paths among the hills, and a smoothly-flowing river cuts through the park center. At the Museo Historico Nacional, Argentina´s turbulent history is reviewed, from the 16th century to the present. It features a collection of paintings by Candido Lopez, a primitive stylist and one of Argentina's most important artists. The Cathedral Russo Ortodoxo, with its soaring and majestic onion domes, is one of the city´s many fine architectural ornaments. Curiously enough, it is still owned by Russia.
Palermo
Palermo is area of woods and lakes, on large park composed of many small ones. Among the attracts are a pleasant rose garden filled with sculptures, polo fields, and the Japanese Garden.
Tigre
Situated on the Parana River Delta, Tigre is a natural playground consisting of 350 rivers and streams and an ecological reserve. You can partake in water sports and fishing, or check out crafts at the Fruit Dock. There are also two museums here, the Navy Museum and the Sarmiento.
Estancias
A great excursion from the city is a visit to one of the many Estancias, or Argentine ranches. Here you can get a sense of the traditional life of the gauchos. Many Estancias offer traditional food, live folk music and dancing, and exhibitions of gaucho horseback skills.
Esquina Carlos Gardel
Named after the singer who popularized tango -and credited for creating tango with lyrics-, this 1940s-style club provides a delicious dinner and superbly choreographed tango entertainment.
Puerto Madero
Continuing down the coast of the river we find the recently transformed district of Puerto Madero. In this renewed space and social scene, Porteños have found yet another excuse to celebrate life and meet with friends in the innumerable restaurants, cafes and bars that populate this fantastic sector by the river.
Prior to its official inauguration in September of 1998, this section of the port had fallen into disrepair. Today, luxurious restaurants, offices and movie theaters have replaced the ancient brick silos, making this the city´s most exclusive district, preferred by tourists and business travelers. All the streets of Puerto Madero carry the names of women. The Boulevard Azucena Villaflor directly connects the city to the river. Every Saturday and Sunday, another street, Calle Vera Peñaloza becomes a pedestrian-only zone, where the public can skate, ride bicycles or stroll. Nearby one will find the Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur, a natural oasis in the heart of the concrete jungle.
Casa Rosada (Pink House)
This building houses the Executive Power. It was built in 1580 and after many renovations and with the cooperation of Italian architect Francisco Tamburini, the facade was reconstructed and given an Italian French look. During the presidency of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, towards the end of the XIX century, the building was painted pink, based on the idea of combining the colors of the two political sectors at the time red for the federals and white for the unitaries, and the resulting color was pink, hence its popular name of "Casa Rosada" (Pink House). The Granaderos, an elite army group with colorful uniforms, guard the building.
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