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…
Puerto Madero Docklands Walk
Walk along the red-brick warehouses and sleek steel skyscrapers of the city's revitalized port district, crossing the iconic Puente de la Mujer. This route showcases the modern, wealthy face of Buenos Aires along a breezy, pedestrian-friendly waterfront.
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1. Casa Rosada
2. Buque Museo Fragata A.R.A. "Presidente Sarmiento"
The Fragata A.R.A. Presidente Sarmiento is a three-masted wooden-hulled vessel permanently docked in Dique Three of Puerto Madero. Built in Birkenhead, England, and launched in eighteen ninety-seven, it stands out for its tall, slender…
3. Puente de la Mujer
The Puente de la Mujer is a white, asymmetrical pedestrian bridge that spans the third dock of the Puerto Madero district. Its most striking feature is a slender, thirty-four-meter-tall steel mast, inclined at a thirty-nine-degree angle,…
4. Parque Mujeres Argentinas
Parque Mujeres Argentinas is defined by its terraced landscape and irregular, curved perimeter formed by gabion walls that rise three meters above ground level. Inaugurated in two thousand seven, the park functions as an open-air…
5. Monumento al Tango
The Monumento al Tango in Puerto Madero is a three-and-a-half-meter tall abstract sculpture made of stainless steel. Its design features a spiraling, bellows-like form that mimics the appearance of a bandoneón, the primary instrument used…
6. Faena Hotel Buenos Aires
The Faena Hotel Buenos Aires is defined by its exterior of industrial red brick, a stoic remnant of the historic El Porteño building. Built in nineteen oh two, this structure was once a grain mill operated by the agribusiness firm Bunge y…
7. Fuente de las Nereidas (Lola Mora)
The Fuente de las Nereidas is a monumental white Carrara marble fountain featuring several female forms and tritons emerging from a central shell. It stands eleven meters tall near the entrance of the Costanera Sur ecological reserve. The…