Parque Lezama is defined by its distinct topography, sitting atop a natural bluff that once marked the original riverbank of the Rio de la Plata. Unlike the surrounding flat grid of the San Telmo neighborhood, this eight-hectare park…
History of Buenos Aires
This tour walks you through the key moments of Buenos Aires' past, from its early colonial foundation to the political revolutions and modern struggles that shaped Argentina.
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1. Parque Lezama
2. Casa Rosada
The Casa Rosada, or Pink House, is instantly recognizable by the distinctive, pale pink facade that dominates the eastern end of the Plaza de Mayo. This is the official workplace of the President of Argentina, housing the executive branch…
3. Pirámide de Mayo
The Pirámide de Mayo is an eighteen-meter-tall obelisk capped with a statue of Liberty, standing at the center of the Plaza de Mayo. As the oldest national monument in Buenos Aires, it serves as the symbolic heart of the city’s political…
4. Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral
The Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral is defined by its façade, which features twelve towering Corinthian columns supporting a triangular pediment. This neoclassical design, inspired by the Palais Bourbon in Paris, makes the building…
5. Museo Nacional del Cabildo
The Cabildo de Buenos Aires is a low, white-walled colonial building with a series of arched windows and a prominent central clock tower located at the edge of Plaza de Mayo. As the former seat of the Spanish colonial town council, it…
6. Congreso de la Nación Argentina
The Palacio del Congreso de la Nación Argentina is defined by its massive central dome, a structure of copper and iron that rises eighty meters above the city streets. This monumental building occupies the western end of the Avenida de…
7. Obelisk
The Obelisk of Buenos Aires rises sixty-seven and a half meters from the Plaza de la República, a slender tower of reinforced concrete that dominates the intersection of Avenida Nueve de Julio and Avenida Corrientes. Architect Alberto…
8. Museo de la Inmigración
The Museo de la Inmigración occupies a long, four-story building of reinforced concrete that sits near the water in the port area of Buenos Aires. Between nineteen eleven and nineteen fifty-three, this structure operated as the Hotel de…
9. Espacio Memoria y Derechos Humanos
The Espacio Memoria y Derechos Humanos occupies a seventeen-hectare campus on Avenida del Libertador that looks like a quiet, small city of thirty-five buildings. Originally established in nineteen twenty-four as the Navy School of…