Things to Do in Buenos Aires

Tienda Puro Diseño Argentino

This is one of my favorite stores in Buenos Aires, and it features very high quality, high-design items...

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Calle Antigua

This store sells religious art, chandeliers, furniture, and other decorative objects. The owner, José...

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Librería de Las Madres -- Café Literario Osvaldo Bayer

This combination bookstore and cafe offers what few places in Buenos Aires can -- the opportunity to...

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Museo Casa-Taller de Celia Chevalier

I don't get excited about much in La Boca, but I highly recommend this place, a boutique and house museum...

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Bakú

All the designs in Bakú are the brainchild of Liliana Basili, who opened her own store in 2003 in the...

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Nana Lou

Mariana Lopez Osornio owns this small boutique in the Las Cañitas area of Palermo for which she has designed...

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Florentina Muraña

This wonderful little store in Palermo Soho takes its name from a character in a Borges story that took...

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Quinta San Vicente and Juan Perón Mausoleum

Quinta is an Argentine word meaning country home, and this was the one shared by Juan and Evita. They...

Pallarols

Located in San Telmo, Pallarols sells an exquisite collection of Argentine silver and other antiques....

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Cabildo

This small, white, colonial-style building with a central bell tower was the original seat of city government...

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Legislatura de la Ciudad (City Legislature Building)

This striking neoclassical building houses exhibitions in several of its halls. Ask about free tours,...

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Casa de Cultura & Palacio de Gobierno

These are two separate buildings, but tours will take you to parts of both. On a street lined with impressive...

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Manzanas de las Luces (Blocks of Enlightenment)

Manzana is an old name for a city block (as well as modern Spanish for an apple), and the name "las Luces"...

Bridge of Woman

Looking for a romantic spot to share a kiss at sunset in Puerto Madero? This is the place. The Bridge...

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Galería Güemes

This is a sumptuous building, though its modern entrance on Calle Florida would make you think otherwise....

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Plazoleta Carlos Pellegrini

This is one of the most beautiful of all the small plazas in Buenos Aires -- not just for the plaza itself,...

Centro Naval

Inaugurated in 1914 and designed by the Swiss architect Jacques Dunant, this building is an incredible...

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Escuela Presidente Roca

Workers in this building say that people often mistake it for the Teatro Colón, which sits next-door,...

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San Telmo Market

Though this is definitely a place to shop, the building is also worth seeing on its own. The San Telmo...

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Templo Libertad & the Jewish History Museum

This impressive Byzantine-style temple is the home of the CIRA (Congregación Israelita de la República...

Islas Malvinas-Falkland Islands War Memorial

In many English-speaking countries (which most of the readers of this book are likely from), the notion...

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Torre Monumental (British Clock Tower)

This Elizabethan-style clock tower, which some call the Argentine Big Ben, was a gift from the British...

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Confitería del Molino

Unfortunately, not only will you not be able to enter this incredible masterpiece, but it is also rapidly...

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Congreso

Opened in 1906, after nearly 9 years of work, and built in a Greco-Roman style with strong Parisian Beaux...

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Iglesia San Nicolás de Bari

This is an exceedingly beautiful and impressive church built for a local Italian Roman Catholic community....