Landmarks in Buenos Aires

15 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.