Meet the Casa Rosada, Plaza de Mayo and Bicentennial Museum
Headquarters of the Executive Branch of the country with its characteristic color, Pink, it is considered one of the most emblematic buildings of Buenos Aires. It houses the Government House Museum. Just steps away is the Metropolitan Cathedral and between them the Plaza de Mayo, a founding site of the City of Buenos Aires. Behind the Casa Rosada is the Bicentennial Museum, the evocation of the 200 years between 1810 and 2010. Vintage objects, archaeological remains of ancient Buenos Aires and a unique audiovisual show on an incredible journey through 200 years of Argentine history.
Visit the new Kirshner Cultural Center
The Kirchner Cultural Center is a historical building of 100,000 m2, the anticue central post office of the city, which was transformed into an international cultural center. It is the largest Cultural Center in Latin America. In this first stage of the launching of the Cultural Center Kirchner, you can access the concert hall of La Ballena Azul (the blue whale), with a capacity for 1,750 people; To La Dome, from where you can see the whole city, and to the space La Gran Lámpara, a hanging glazed structure supported by a latticework of Vierendeel beams. Over the next few months the various works - conservation, restoration and value - will be completed, which will allow the full enjoyment of this now artistic and educational space.
Tango classes at Carlos Gardel house
Learn to dance tango on Saturdays in the ideal setting of the house where Carlos Gardel and his mother lived, also an exponent of the typical "chorizo ​​house", located in the traditional Abasto neighborhood (Jean Jaurés 735).
Visit Recoleta Cemetery and Cultural Center
The Cementerio de la Recoleta is the most visited in the city, due to 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 most popular tombs. It also deserves a visit for its architectural value, since it is a sample of the times when the country was an emerging economic power and the main families of the city competed to build splendid pantheons. Many of the vaults and mausoleums are the work of important architects and are adorned with marbles and sculptures; More than 90 vaults have been declared National Historical Monument. It was built in 1822 as the city's first public cemetery and its layout is the work of the French engineer Prospero Catelin.
Within walking distance of this venue is the Recoleta Cultural Center. It has different spaces for the presentation of books, the performance of plays and dance, concerts, conferences and artistic presentations which constantly change. Your entry is free. In front of its property a fair of craftsmen meets, with the most diverse work samples.
Stroll in Caminito and La Boca
Caminito is one of the most emblematic walks of the city and an attraction not to be missed for visitors. With its typical conventillos of veneer in the district of La Boca, that show its walls painted of different colors, it is also an open-air museum of almost 150 meters in length. Its winding route is due to the fact that it follows the channel of a stream that flowed until the beginning of the 20th century. The area was popularly known as "Puntin" (diminutive of "bridge" in Genoese dialect). There you can see the work of the painter Benito Quinquela MartÃn in the museum that honors him and you will find contemporary artists of outstanding trajectory in the Fair of Plastic Artists of Caminito.
Get to know the Ecological Reserve
The Costanera Sur Ecological Reserve brings together the largest amount of biodiversity within the City of Buenos Aires and extends along 350 hectares. It is ideal to stroll through its city viewpoints, take a bike ride, enjoy its natural views and explore an outdoor area within the city.
Amaze in Mataderos Fair
Born almost three decades ago, the Mataderos Fair has become a weekend trip for those who want to connect with Argentine traditions. Located in the district of Mataderos, in front of the old National Treasury Market (where beef cattle arrived to be controlled and sold for domestic consumption), it has more than 300 stalls selling gauchesque handicrafts (such as mates, ponchos, blankets and leather crafts and silver objects) and regional foods (such as empanadas and locro soup). But it is also worth visiting for its artistic festivals (in which are performed guitars, typical dances and concerts of numerous folk musicians) and for their performances of gauchesco dances. Talks, exhibitions, traditional games for children and adults, folk dance and tango classes are also organized. It is performed on Sunday, April to December, and in January and February, only on Saturdays.
Enjoy the Botanical Garden
The Botanical Garden is a pleasant place to walk and relax in the city, walking its paths and knowing the different native species of Argentina, as well as other continents. It also has a very important collection of aromatic herbs.
It occupies an area of ​​more than 7 hectares and houses about 6,000 plant species, as well as a botany library, three style gardens (one French, one Roman and one oriental), a herbarium, five greenhouses (the largest of them, Art Nouveau, was awarded in the Universal Exhibition of Paris of 1900), in addition to a great collection of sculptures. Opened in 1898, it was designed by the French landscape architect Carlos Thays, author of the layout of some of the most important green spaces of Buenos Aires.
See the San Telmo Fair and the Cartoon Wakway
The Paseo de la Historieta is a street circuit in the neighborhood of Monserrat, San Telmo and Puerto Madero that pays homage to the characters of the main comic strips of Argentine history: Mafalda, Isidoro, Patoruzú, Clemente and Gaturro, among others.
The culmination of this event is the San Telmo Fair, which gathers more than 250 antique stalls. It is also ideal to visit the Mercado which is very close to complete this circuit of objects and art. Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. In the Plaza Dorrego.
Visit the Museum of Fine Arts and the City Flower
The National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA) is an Argentine art museum with offices in the City of Buenos Aires. It has the largest artistic heritage in the country and is one of the most important in Latin America. It has an extensive collection of art and objects and the entrance to its enclosure is always free.
The United Nations Plaza, also called Plaza de la Flor or the Faculty of Law, which is behind the museum is a great place to rest and contemplate in a green space with trees and trails with the well-known giant metal flower that forms part of the urban landscape of the city. Stainless steel made, this giant (it measures 20 meters of height) was realized by the Argentine architect Eduardo Catalano and donated to the Government of the City in 2002.