TOURÍST POINTS

Abasto Shopping Center

Abasto Shopping Center : The Abasto of Buenos Aires was built on the skeleton of one of the buildings with more history of the city, it used to be the Mercado del Abasto, main supplier of fruits and vegetables of the Buenos Aires at the ends of last century. It was inaugurated as shopping mall in 1998, the Abasto of Buenos Aires is the largest shopping center of the Capital with 120.000 m2 , four levels with more than 186 commercial localities, places to eat, 12 movie theaters, 1 fun park, with capacity for 6.000 people for hour, the Plaza del Zorzal , a covered area and the "Museum of the Children", the unique place of its type in all Latin America. The shopping centre is situated in Corrientes Avenue and the Anchorena, Lavalle and Agüero streetss.

Esquina Carlos Gardel

It is curious to think that a myth as strong as Carlos Gardel occurred in the twentieth century. Still there are friends that frequented him and witnessed his artistic life. Still in Buenos Aires it can be indicated the house where lived and the theaters where he sang. Nevertheless it appears to be that Gardel is so eternal and comes from so far away, that without him the history of Buenos Aires is conceived... In the corner of the cut street was baptized Carlos Gardel in his homage and the Anchorena street , where today it is summoned the statue that immortalizes him, a restaurant existed which sheltered among its walls to the picturesque characters of the market: "The Chanta Cuatro".
A Mute witness of an unique history where Carlitos Gardel used to meet his friends and cronies to have dinner, to stay up late at night , to sing or simply, to dawn.

Recoleta

Museo National de Bellas Artes
Liberator Avenue 1473
It is the most important in our country and one of the most relevant in America . It has 32 rooms, where there are exposed the permanent and traveling samples. Their collection elevates at more than 10.000 pieces. Emphasized woks are the Goya, The Grieco , Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Degas, Van Gogh, Picasso, Kandinsky, Miró, Bourdelle, Rodín, Candido López, Prilidiano Pueyrredón, etc.

Palais of Glace
Posadas 1725
Since 1911 until 1921 here the first skating rink on ice functioned which was built in Buenos Aires . Then it became an elegant dancing place of tango. At present it is a state center of expositions of art.


Centro Cultural Recoleta
Junín 1930
It was inaugurated in 1979, it functions in a building of the 19th century that belonged to the peaceful friars. The reform was in charge of the architects Jacques Beadle, Luis Benedit and Clorindo Testa. It counts with 27 rooms for expositions in which the samples of plastic arts are presented, concerts, theater, dance, perfomances, electroacoustic music, videographic expressions, etc.


Cementerio de la Recoleta
Junín 1790
It used to be the orchard of the peaceful monks it became public cemetery in 1822, after the expulsion of the religious order. In their almost six hectares the remainders of important persons, warriors of the independence, presidents of the Republic, writers, scientific and artists lie down

Palermo

Zoológico de Buenos Aires
Las Heras and Sarmiento
It was created over a hundred years ago. It is a walk where most part of a day can be dedicated: it possesses a great variety of animal species and an architecture that reproduces classical works of the world. The archade of entrance is a reproduction of the Triumphant Arch of Tito in Rome ; the Palace of the Elephants is a reproduction of the Temple of the goddess Nimaschi in Mumbai; further on it is found the Temple to Dress, it is a circular construction of 16 Corinthian columns copies of the one that is found in Rome . The Zoo shelters also numerous works of art, like the Girl with flowers, a copy of the work of the Italian Canova, the Monkey fallen, of Passani, and a female figure carved by the sculptress Argentina Lola Moorish.

Jardín Botánico
Santa Fe 3951
It was inaugurated in 1898;it is considered the work summit of the architect and French landscape painter Carlos Thays. In a surface of almost eight hectares it counts with between 5.000 and 6.000 species of plants. The Argentine flora receives the most important position , with characteristic species of each province. Other sections are destined to the flora from each continent.the Jardín Bótanico is decorated with numerous sculptures and fountains.

La Rural
Santa Fé and Sarmiento
Since 120 years ago it is the most important center of expositions of Buenos Aires . It Has 45.000 m2 covered and four conference rooms. Every year, in this place it is organized "The Rural", one of the most important fairs of agriculture of the world.

Palermo Soho
Russel (Serrano al 1600), Santa Rosa (Serrano al 1700), Soria (Serrano al 1800)
The passages of Palermo Soho are traces of a failed urbanization, a working-class district that never was finished . Some of the most exclusive dwellings of the city are found hidden in this passages.

Palermo Hollywood
Among Juan B. Justo y Sant Fé Niceto Vega and Dorrego
The way of the railroad is the limit of Palermo Soho. Of the other side it extends Palermo Hollywood, its name is due to the presence of film studios and television, producing and radios. The zone is distinguished for its bars and by the quality of its restaurants: international dishes, ethnic kitchen and dishes of author.

Av. Corrientes & Obelisco

The Obelisco recalls in each one of its faces a historic event of Buenos Aires: the first foundation, in 1536; the second and final, in 1580; the first time the national flag in the city was hoisted, in 1812 (in the church of San Nicolas, where it raised exactly where today is the Obelisco); and the constitution of Buenos Aires as capital of Argentina in 1880. The work was in charge of Alberto Prebisch, one of the main architects of the Argentine modernism and author also of the neighboring Teatro Gran Rex, in Corrientes and Suipacha. For the construction of the Obelisco white stone of the province of Cordoba was utilized. Its only entrance door conducts, through a stair of 206 steps and seven rests, to the four windows of the peak. The monument is the meeting point in the city for the political demonstrations and for the feast of the sports achievements. It was very resisted at first, today the Obelisco is one of the architectural symbols of Buenos Aires .
Location: Plaza of the Republic, crossing of the Corrientes avenues and 9 de Julio.
Inauguration: May 23, 1936
Architect: Alberto Prebisch
High: 67,5 metros

Teatro Colón

The Teatro Colón was born, of the imperious demanding society that since the early 19th century has consecrated to the opera as his favorite musical demonstration. The favoritism for this supreme invention of the late Renaissance had reached in Buenos Aires at the end of the eight hundred a dazzling boom. The building is located in the ground delimited along the streets Libertad, Arturo Toscanini, Cerrito and Tucumán, between the Plaza Lavalle and the 9 of July avenue. The land on which is built covers 8.202 square meters , of which 5.006 correspond to the building and 3.196 to low dependences level of the street Arturo Toscanini. The total surface covered with the building is of 37.884 square meters .

The facades are divided into three architectural orders. The first one, corresponds to the base, it is of 8,50 meters of height; the second measures 9,20 meters , and the third is of 5,50 meters . Above the terraces an elegant ceiling is emphasized. It is a harmonic assembly and with excellent perspective that can be appreciated from a great distance from the Avda. 9 of July.

San Telmo

Bar Sur

Estados Unidos y Balcarce
It was inagurated in1967 and it was the first place where the nightshow started.

Museo de Arte Moderno del Gobierno de la Ciudad
Av. San Juan 350
Antiguamente, era un depósito de la fábrica de cigarrillos “43”. El edificio es del año 1918 y se recicló conservando su arquitectura original de estilo utilitario. El museo presenta exposiciones de artistas plásticos contemporáneos.

Museo del Cine
Defensa 1220
El museo abre de martes a viernes de 10 a 17. Cuenta con una cineteca, y colecciones de afiches, vestuario, fotos y documentos.

Parque Lezama - Patio de Esculturas y Anfiteatro
Defensa, Brasil, Av Pseo Colón t Av. Martín Garcia, Brazil, It is summoned to court on a natural gully. Some people affirm that in the surrounding areas it took place the first settlement of this city Paul Groussac is opposed to this conception, he affirms that it took place in the Vuelta of Rocha. At the end of the 18th century, the Real Company of Philippines settled in the Parque Lezama the deposit of black slaves. In the year 1806, during the First English Invasion, the General Beresford entered along the San Martin street (today Defensa) knocking down the last local forces in the Barranca de Marcó (today Lezama Park ).Some years later, the English David MacKinley set up his farmhouse opposite to the river. On the building the English flag was blazed, for that reason the people used to call it "the farmhouse of the English". In the year 1857, the Salteño merchant José Gregorio Lezama acquired the property, a high fence of grilles of iron surrounded it and enriched the forest environment with plants and exotic trees. Towards 1871, during the epidemic yellow fever, the residence functioned like quarantine. In 1889, when Lezama died his widower Angela Álzaga sold the property to the state with the condition it become a public park and carried the name of Lezama Park.

Museo Histórico Nacional
Defensa 1600
It was founded in May 24, 1889. It was housed in the house which was the house of Gregorio de Lezama in the year 1897. Its lines respond to the Italian architecture, in force between 1850 and 1880. The patrimony stands out the traditions of the Revolution of May and the Wars of the Independence and other transcendental periods of the national history of the 19th century.

La Boca

Mural escenográfico
Almirante Brown 36
It amuses, with objects and drawings, a typical scene of the neighborhood. Among the characters are the Aníbal Troilo bandoneonista, Diego Maradona and the painter of La Boca , Benito Quinquela Martin. It was carried out by the neighbors of the Group of Theater Catalinas South with the grilles, woods and sheets of a tenement house that was in that place.

Casa Amarilla
Almirante Brown 401
It is a replica of the house of the Admirante Guillermo Brown (marine of Irish origin pioneer of the Argentinian naval forces), built in adjoining lands to the original. In its interior it functions the Departmento de Estudios Históricos Navales and the Brown Institute; it possesses a library and a center of convention of multiple uses. The first La Boca theaters were theatres were raised in the Almirante Brown Avenue : the literary Society Iris, The Dante Alighieri, where Italian lyrical operas were represented.

Estadio Boca Juniors
Brandsen 805
"The Bombonera" belongs to one of the two most popular clubs of Argentina : Boca Juniors (the other is River Plate, in the neighborhood of Núñez).It has a capacity for 60.000 spectators and it was inaugurated in 1940. Outside there is a mural that was carried out by the artist Pérez Celis.


Calle Museo Caminito
In the decade of 1950, the neighbor Arturo Cárrega decided to recover the first land where it had run a narrow stream and later the train. Cárrega called the painter Quinquela Martin, who baptized the street of 100 meters as "Caminito"(Path) as the title of the popular tango of 1926 of Peñalosa and Filiberto. To the walks donations of different artists were added. In 1959, Caminito became a museum to open sky and without doors.

Escuela Pedro de Mendoza y Museo Quinquela Martín
Av. Pedro of Mendoza 1835
In 1933, Benito Quinquela Martin donated a land to build a building that would harbor a primary school, a museum of Argentine art and his own dwelling and workshop. The same painter decorated the classrooms with mural paintings. The collection of the museum, that functions on the third floor, was initiated by Quinquela Martin and it includes a lot of of his work and of other Argentine artists.

Teatro de La Ribera
Pedro of Mendoza 1821
It was built in lands donated by Quinquela Martin, who besides participated in the creation of the theater. It was inaugurated in 1971 and it can lodge 700 spectators.

Antiguo Puente Transbordador
Pedro de Mendoza y Almirante Brown.
The company was inaugurated by Southern Railroads in 1914. Its structure is made of iron. The primitive bridge hung of a framework which was articulated to the upper part. Pedestrians, cars and trolleys used it.

"The photographs correspond the Secretary of Tourism C.A.B.A."