Landmarks in Buenos Aires

26 places our drivers recommend.

• Obelisco · The city's icon, standing in the middle of 9 de Julio avenue.
• Teatro Colón · One of the world's great opera houses, famous for its acoustics.
• Plaza de Mayo & Casa Rosada · The historic heart: the pink presidential palace, the Cathedral and the Cabildo around one square.
• Recoleta Cemetery · A city of marble mausoleums and the resting place of Evita.
• Caminito · The open-air alley of painted houses in La Boca, with tango on the street.
• Puente de la Mujer · Calatrava's white footbridge over the Puerto Madero docks.
• El Ateneo Grand Splendid · A century-old theater turned into one of the world's most beautiful bookshops.
• Floralis Genérica · The giant steel flower sculpture in a quiet park by the law school.
• Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes · The national fine arts museum, home to Argentina's most important collection.
• Museo Histórico Nacional · The national history museum, inside Parque Lezama.
• Pasaje San Lorenzo · A cobbled passage with the city's narrowest house.
• Palacio Barolo · A skyscraper built as a map of Dante's Divine Comedy, with a lighthouse on top.
• Pasaje Lanín · A street in Barracas where an artist covered the house fronts in mosaics, free and always open.
• Palacio de Aguas Corrientes · A palace of English tiles built to disguise a giant water tank.
• Statue of Liberty (Belgrano) · An authentic Bartholdi cast of the Statue of Liberty, standing in a Belgrano square.
• Palacio del Congreso · The seat of the Argentine Congress, opened in 1906 to a design by Vittorio Meano, under an eighty metre bronze clad dome.
• Metropolitan Cathedral · The cathedral on Plaza de Mayo, whose neoclassical front has twelve columns for the twelve apostles and which holds the mausoleum of General José de San Martín.
• Torre Monumental (English Tower) · A sixty metre Elizabethan revival tower given by the British residents for the 1910 centenary and opened in 1916, built almost entirely from materials shipped from England.
• Cabildo de Buenos Aires · The colonial town hall on Plaza de Mayo, rebuilt in 1940 on its original site, now the national museum of the Cabildo and the May Revolution.
• El Zanjón de Granados · An early nineteenth century house in San Telmo restored over a maze of brick vaulted tunnels and cisterns, sealed and forgotten for more than a century.
• Palacio Libertad (former CCK) · The old Central Post Office, a 1928 palace by Norbert-Auguste Maillart, turned into the country's largest cultural centre and renamed Palacio Libertad in 2024.
• Centro Cultural Recoleta · Seventeen thousand square metres of galleries, stages and cinema on a site with three hundred years of history, running since the early 1980s.
• Mafalda Statue · Pablo Irrgang's bench sculpture of Mafalda, placed at Defensa and Chile in 2009 a few metres from the building where Quino lived when the strip began.
• Nicolás Avellaneda Transporter Bridge · A 1914 transporter bridge over the Riachuelo, one of only eight left standing in the world and the only one in the Americas.
• Chacarita Cemetery · At ninety five hectares the largest cemetery in the city, where Carlos Gardel, Alfonsina Storni, Aníbal Troilo and Gustavo Cerati are buried.
• Ciudad Cultural Konex · A 1920s oil factory in the Abasto turned into a nine hall cultural centre by Clorindo Testa's studio, open since 2005 and home to La Bomba de Tiempo.