Best of Buenos Aires Walking Tour

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Pass By: Buenos Aires Walking Tours, 899 Florida St. Meet at corner door Florida is the main pedestrian street downtown., Buenos Aires C1005AAQ Argentina

Directions: Please look out for the guides carrying a small portable sign or badge that read BA Walking Tours. They will be waiting OUTSIDE the cafe at the door.

Stop At: Calle Florida, Buenos Aires Argentina

Florida Street (Spanish: Calle Florida) is one of the oldest in town and a popular shopping street downtown. It communicates the foundational area (Plaza de Mayo) with Plaza San Martin (San Martin Park)

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Basilica del Santisimo Sacramento, San Martin 1050, Retiro, Buenos Aires Argentina

Built by Lady Mercedes Anchorena for her family in 1916 it is astonishingly beautiful.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Edificio Kavanagh, Florida 1065, Retiro Retiro, Buenos Aires Argentina

Tallest Art Deco skyscraper in Buenos Aires overlooking Plaza San Martín. It was the highest skyscraper in Latin America and declared UNESCO heritage building. Its construction took only 14 months and was commissioned in 1934 by Corina Kavanagh, a millionaire of Irish descent who sold two ranches at the age of 39 to erect her own skyscraper

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Torre Monumental, Av. Dr. Jose Maria Ramos Mejia 1315, Buenos Aires C1104 Argentina

We will explain the strong legacy of England in Argentina contemplating this British Clock Tower and we will also see and explain the monument to the 1982 South Atlantic war (Malvinas/Falkland) just opposite the tower.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Plaza San Martin, Av. Santa Fe, Buenos Aires Argentina

Chock full of history, this park housed a fort, a bullfight ring and much more. Today it also holds the magnificent monument to our maximum independence hero: Gral. Jose de San Martin

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Palacio Paz, Avenida Santa Fe 750, Buenos Aires C1059ABO Argentina

Impressive city-palace, built 1914 for José C. Paz, the proprietor of the city's then-second most-circulated newspaper. Built entirely with material imported for the purpose from France.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Basilica de Nuestra Senora Del Pilar, Junin 1998, Buenos Aires Argentina

Beautiful colonial Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar in Recoleta, Buenos Aires was built as part of the Franciscan Recoletos monastery, completed in 1732 it is the second-oldest church in Buenos Aires

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Recoleta, Junin y Guido, Buenos Aires Argentina

Recoleta is a strollable, affluent area known for Paris-style townhouses, lavish former palaces and posh boutiques.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Barrio Norte, Buenos Aires Argentina

The flamboyant, unique and unforgettable neighbourhood that gives Buenos Aires its reputation for being the Paris of the South. Amazing mansions, elegant streets. Immigration explained (Spanish, Italians, French, British, etc.).

Duration: 15 minutes