Places
to visit in Buenos Aires
You can find information
in the Buenos Aires official web site, an interesting
interactive map and tourist tours with guided or self
guided visits.
http://www.buenosaires.gov.ar/
Colon Theatre:
Placed almost in front
of our apartments it is an obliged visit, for his
architecture and his excellent acoustics, and all
his originality was preserved.
The building is being renewed to celebrate the centenary
in the year 2008. In the guided visits you can appreciate
the factory of clothes, footwear, masks and wig for
the functions performed in the theatre.
http://www.teatrocolon.org.ar/
Pacific Galleries and
Borges Cultural Center: built
in 1889 was the head office of Association Stimulus
of Fine arts, the National Academy of Fine arts and
the Museum of Fine arts. In 1908 was installed the
offices of what should be the railway Buenos Aires-Pacific.
The artist Juan Carlos Castagnino, Antonio Berni,
Cirilo Colmenio, Lino Spilimbergo and Demetrio Urruchúa
realized the remarcable murals of the dome.
Nowadays, it is a modern commercial center. In the
same building are the Borges Cultural Center, the
Julio Bocca's Dance School and the School Argentina
de Tango.
http://www.ccborges.org.ar/
Pedestrian streets
Florida and Lavalle,
besides his trades, bars and restaurants, concentrate
at every hour diverse arts performing, plastic artist,
dancers of tango, musical, etc
Corrientes Avenue:exponent
of the cultural and commercial dynamism of the city,
is a headquarters of numerous and prestigious theatres
and cinemas, restaurants, bookshops, etc.
San Martín Cultural
Center possesses exhibitions's
rooms, three rooms of theatre and a cinema, it is
a headquarters of the Stable Contemporary Ballet.
Behind the building is the St Martin Cultural Center,
offer workshops, conferences, musical, etc. It has
a covered surface of 30.000 m2.
http://www.ccgsm.gov.ar/
Neighborhood
of Recoleta
National Library
was founded in 1811, contains approximately 2.000.000
of books.
National
museum of Fine Arts.
It consists of 32 rooms in which are exposed works
of Picasso , Van Gogh, Degas, The Greek, Goya, Tintoretto,
Rembrandt, Kandinsky, Miro, Rodin Bourdelle, Prilidiano
Pueyrredón and others remarcable artists.
Faculty of Law with
a front of Doric columns
and a perron of 80 meters, the building was concluded
in 1949.
Inside, stands out the great lounge of acts, the museum,
the art gallery and the library.
Recoleta
Cultural Center it works
in a building of the XIXth century that belonged to
the Recoletos friars. In his rooms they present plastic
arts exhibitions, diverse cultural manifestations.
http://www.centroculturalrecoleta.org/
Basilica
Our Lady of Pilar.
Constructed by the Jesuits and finished in 1732, it
preserves the altarpieces, images and elements of
worship of the epoch.
Plaza de Mayo, this
square was scene of a lot of important historical
events from the foundation of the nation up to the
present. We can visit the Casa Rosada,
headquarters of the executive power of the nation,
the Metropolitan Cathedral, the Cabildo, the Nacional
Bank building.
Av de Mayo, It
joins Plaza of May to the Plaza of Two Congresses,
this avenue have great architectural beauty, stands
out the Palace Barolo, the Sede of the Government
of the City of Buenos Aires, the coffee Tortoni, etc
National Congress,
it is the headquarters of the legislative power and
it is possible to visit, it has the bigest dome in
Buenos Aires.
Visit to museums,
a complete information about the museums of the city,
schedules and tariffs (in the main they are very cheap
or free)
http://www.bue.gov.ar/actividades/?menu_id=78&info=museos
Puerto madero,
possesses parks and very elegant walks and excellent
restaurants that offer international kitchen. Closely
together we find South Coastal
and the Ecological Reserve.
San
telmo This traditional neighborhood
very frequented by the tourists with his paved streets,
his numerous antiquarian, his markets, restaurants
and houses of tango, has a special atmosphere moves
us to the ancient Buenos Aires.
La
Boca, another very typical neighborhood,
in the litle street Caminito there are outdoors art
exhibition, possesses an interesting Museum and School
of Art in the house that belonged to the artist painter
Quinquela Martin, there are also many art galleries
where talented artists expose and sell works like
it's the "Carbonería"
El
Abasto, here is the Carlos Gardel's
museum-house and the Abasto ex-market, today is a
modern mall.
Aguas Corrientes Palace,
headquarters of Sanitary Works of the Nation. The
front of the building is constituted of 130 thousand
enameled bricks and 170 thousand pieces of colored
ceramics. It was constructed among 1887 and 1894.
It has a museum and the guided visit is free.
Pizzurno
Palace building
constructed in 1885, it is nowadays a headquarters
of the Education and Cultural Ministry.
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Pacific Galleries
De
La Plata river
Puerto
Madero
Colon
Theate
Florida
Street
La
Boca
Aguas
Corrientes Palace
Pizzurno
Palace
Abasto
Recoleta
San
Telmo
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