Buenos Aires Trip Overview
We will start in the north where we will find wide green spaces and beautiful French style mansions. In this area we will have our first stops: the emblematic Floralis Generica and the famous cemetery of Recoleta where we will visit the Mausoleum of Eva Peron. In the center of the city we will pass through 9 de Julio Avenue, we will observe some of the most important points of interest such as the Colon Theater and the Obelisk. Upon reaching Plaza de Mayo, the Casa Rosada, the Cabildo and we will enter the Cathedral. The tour continues to the south visiting San Telmo, and La Boca, where you can feel the passion for football in the famous Bombonera. We will observe the colorful tenements, home to the Italian immigrants of the late 19th. century, the picturesque Caminito street that gives name to Carlos Gardel’s famous tango. The tour ends in the modern neighborhood of Puerto Madero, the most varied gastronomic area of Buenos Aires. You can aquire premium or classic service.
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Duration: 4 hours
Starts: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Trip Category: Shore Excursions >> Ports of Call Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Buenos Aires, Capital Federal District, Argentina
We will start in the north where we will find wide green spaces and beautiful French style mansions. In this area we will have our first stops: the emblematic Floralis Generica and the famous cemetery of Recoleta where we will visit the Mausoleum of Eva Peron. In the center of the city we will pass through 9 de Julio Avenue, we will observe some of the most important points of interest such as the Colon Theater and the Obelisk. Upon reaching Plaza de Mayo, the Casa Rosada, the Cabildo and we will enter the Cathedral. The tour continues to the south visiting San Telmo, and La Boca, where you can feel the passion for football in the famous Bombonera. We will observe the colorful tenements, home to the Italian immigrants of the late 19th. century, the picturesque Caminito street that gives name to Carlos Gardel’s famous tango. The tour ends in the modern neighborhood of Puerto Madero, the most varied gastronomic area of Buenos Aires. You can aquire premium or classic service.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Catedral Primada, San Martin 27, Buenos Aires C1004AAA Argentina
The Metropolitan Cathedral of Buenos Aires is the main Catholic temple in Argentina, the main headquarters of the Catholic Church of Argentina
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Plaza de Mayo, Av. Hipolito Yrigoyen S/N, Buenos Aires Argentina
The Plaza de Mayo is the oldest in Buenos Aires and is the scene par excellence of all the most important political events in Argentine history, with the exception of the Declaration of Independence.
Its name is a tribute to the Revolution of May 25, 1810, which occurred in this same square and that began the quest for Argentine independence, from which they began to choose a form of government of their own. It is also the place where the city was founded for the second time, on June 11, 1580 by Juan de Garay. In the center of the square is the May Pyramid, a monument built in 1811 to celebrate the centenary of the Revolution and that was reformed in 1856 by the artist and architect Prilidiano Pueyrredón. The monument to Manuel Belgrano, creator of the national flag, is located between the May Pyramid and the Government House.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Casa Rosada, Calle Balcarce 50, Buenos Aires C1064AAB Argentina
The Casa Rosada is the seat of the Executive Power of the Argentine Republic. Within it is the office of the president of the Argentine Nation. This building is located in 50 Balcarce Street, in the neighborhood of Monserrat in the City of Buenos Aires, in front of the historic Plaza de Mayo
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Avenida de Mayo, Buenos Aires Argentina
It was the first avenue that the City of Buenos Aires had and the backbone of the historical and civic center of the metropolis. It connects the historic Plaza de Mayo with the Plaza del Congreso in an extension of ten blocks. He was born opulent and majestic, with great Spanish influence. It was transformed, over time, into the scene of Buenos Aires social demonstrations.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Calle Defensa Bairro San Telmo, Buenos Aires Argentina
San Telmo is an old neighborhood with bohemian touch thanks to its temporary art galleries, night bars and street murals. The Defensa street, full of antique shops and bustling brasseries, passes through the Dorrego square, where many tourists come on Sundays to see the street market and street performances. Winding roads run through Lezama Park among jacaranda trees. Here is also the National Historical Museum, Italianate style. The neighborhood is full of exclusive restaurants with tango shows.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: La Boca, Avda Almirante Brown, Buenos Aires Argentina
La Boca is a working class neighborhood that has several attractions next to the Riachuelo. Asadores and street artists mark the entire Caminito, a narrow alley flanked by brightly colored zinc houses that evoke its origin as an immigrant neighborhood.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Estadio Alberto J. Armando (La Bombonera), Brandsen 805 La Boca, Buenos Aires 1161AAQ Argentina
The Alberto J. Armando Stadium, better known as La Bombonera, is a football stadium owned by Club Atlético Boca Juniors. It is located in the neighborhood of La Boca in the city of La Boca
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Caminito, Valle Iberlucea del Dr. y Magallenes, Buenos Aires Argentina
Caminito is one of the most emblematic promenades of the city and of the unmissable attractions for those who visit it. With its typical sheet metal tenements in the neighborhood of La Boca, which show its walls painted in different colors, it is also an open-air museum of almost 150 meters in length. Its sinuous layout is due to the fact that it follows the course of a stream that flowed until the beginning of the 20th century
Duration: 15 minutes
Pass By: Mercado de San Telmo, Defensa 963, Buenos Aires Argentina
The San Telmo Market is a large indoor market located in the San Telmo neighborhood of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Although it retains old shops selling vegetables and meats, nowadays it is a tourist place and antiques abound.
Pass By: Teatro Colon, Calle Cerrito 628, Buenos Aires C1012 Argentina
ONLY IF YOU AQUIRE PREMIUM CITY TOUR OPTION – The Teatro Colón is an opera house in the city of Buenos Aires. Due to its size, acoustics and trajectory, it is considered one of the five best in the world.
Pass By: Av Rivadivia & Av Entre Rios – Plaza Congreso, Buenos Aires Argentina
The Palace of the Congress of the Argentine Nation is the building where the Congress of the Argentine Nation develops its activities, it is one of the largest congresses in the world
Stop At: Cemiterio de Recoleta, Junin 1760, Buenos Aires C1113 Argentina
ONLY IF YOU AQUIRE PREMIUM CITY TOUR OPTION – It is the most visited in the city, for its numerous and imposing mausoleums and vaults, belonging to many of the main protagonists of Argentine history, such as Eva Perón (Evita), one of the busiest tombs.
Duration: 30 minutes
Pass By: Avenida Corrientes, Buenos Aires Argentina
Born in the neighborhood of Puerto Madero and ends in Chacarita. Throughout its 70 blocks, it crosses the neighborhoods of Balvanera, all closely linked to the history of Tango and culture. Being one of the main cultural axes of the city, the Avenue owes its name to the first city of the interior of the country that supported the Argentine Independence.
Because of its nightlife it is known as “the street that never sleeps” and this is mainly due to the fact that, around the Obelisk, it has the largest concentration of bookstores, theaters, pizzerias and bars in Buenos Aires, some of them considered “Notables” “Downtown area
Pass By: Avenida 9 De Julio, Centro, Buenos Aires Argentina
Downtown areaFor its 140 meters wide, it is known as “the widest avenue” in the world. It goes through the center of the city from Constitución to Av. Del Libertador. It was inaugurated in 1937 and originally designed by the prestigious landscaper Carlos Thays. It has 1000 jacarandas, ceibos and cherry trees, many of them donated by Japan. The challenge of those who cross it usually is to do it walking from one end to the other in a single attempt and without the traffic lights interrupting.
Pass By: Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Avenida Pte Figueroa Alcorta 3415, Buenos Aires C1425CLA Argentina
The Museum of Latin American Art (MALBA) is one of the most interesting in the City: it houses the art collection of the Costantini Foundation, with approximately 400 works, the modern building that houses the Malba, covered with limestone and with ample surfaces of glass and steel, was made in 1997. Malba is a dynamic and participatory cultural space in which temporary exhibitions of diverse nature are presented (often along with other museums around the world, international collections and related foundations) and samples of contemporary Argentine and Latin American art.
Pass By: Obelisco de Buenos Aires, Avenida 9 de Julio s/n Plaza de la Republica, Buenos Aires C1073ABA Argentina
Downtown areaThe Obelisk of Buenos Aires is a historical monument considered an icon of the city of Buenos Aires, built in 1936 on the occasion of the fourth centenary of the so-called first foundation of the city by Pedro de Mendoza
Pass By: Puerto Madero, Rosario Vera Penaloza, Buenos Aires Argentina
Puerto Madero is a renovated neighborhood that faces the bay. Its renovated redbrick buildings house exclusive grills frequented by tourists and businessmen at lunchtime. There are also modern skyscrapers with multinationals and luxury apartments. The lakes in the area are surrounded by trails, as is the ecological reserve Costanera Sur, very popular with runners and families. The elegant suspension bridge of the Woman connects the ports.