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Buenos Aires, with room to wander
A bookshop, a pizza stop and a stretch of green. Three starting points for a day with a little space around its plans.
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Recently added recommendations. New here does not mean newly opened.
Recently added recommendations. New here does not mean newly opened. Start with one recommendation, then follow its linked places and official sources to plan your visit.
GuideCulture
Three ways into Buenos Aires art
Recoleta, San Telmo and La Boca offer different kinds of looking. Choose a starting point before drawing a line across the map.
Free entry
PlaceActivities
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
An art afternoon in Recoleta, with no admission charge. Give a few works your full attention before heading back into the city.
PlaceActivities
Museo Moderno
A contemporary art stop on Avenida San Juan. Pick an exhibition, then give San Telmo a little more of your afternoon.
StoryCulture
Free Buenos Aires: what your visit includes
A free museum, a bookshop browse and a ticketed experience are different plans. Check which part of the visit the price actually covers.
Free entry
PlaceActivities
El Ateneo Grand Splendid
A bookshop inside a former theatre. Look up, browse a shelf, and let a quick stop become an unhurried visit.
Free entry
PlaceActivities
Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur
Leave the waterfront towers behind for paths, water and birds. A free outdoor plan with room to slow down.
Free entry
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Jardín Botánico Carlos Thays
A green pause in Palermo. Follow a path, look closely at a leaf and give the afternoon a gentler pace.
Free entry
PlaceActivities
Caminito
Painted facades and street life in La Boca. Make room for a daylight wander through this small, vivid corner of the city.
RestaurantPizza
El Cuartito
Pizza on Talcahuano, with a late finish. A straightforward reason to stop for lunch or turn an evening walk into dinner.
RestaurantParrilla
Don Julio
A Palermo parrilla to build a meal around. Check the reservation calendar before fixing the rest of your day.
On the house
EventExhibitions
Adriana Bustos: Código natal
A work commissioned for the museum’s 130th anniversary. Give this first-floor exhibition a place in your next Recoleta afternoon.
On the house
EventExhibitions
HABITAR: Buenos Aires Architecture Biennial
Architecture as a way of looking at everyday life. A free exhibition at Bellas Artes, with public visiting dates from 23 September.
On the house
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Caleidoscopio: an afternoon making art
A family workshop turns the Museo Moderno’s exhibitions into a starting point for making something together.
EventExhibitions
Viva Frida
Clothes, objects and images bring Frida Kahlo’s self-presentation into focus at MALBA. Build the afternoon around a proper gallery visit.
EventExhibitions
Belkis Ayón: Myth and Disobedience
Seven works offer a concentrated encounter with Belkis Ayón’s printmaking, mythology and the figure of Sikán.
On the house
EventExhibitions
Tita Merello. Una diva plebeya
A free exhibition revisits Tita Merello’s voice, screen presence and place in Argentina’s popular imagination.
GuideCulture
From a café table to the river
Tortoni, the former post office and a long breath of riverside space. Downtown Buenos Aires without a checklist sprint.
PlaceFood & drink
Presidente Bar
A late-starting cocktail address on Quintana, for the point in a Buenos Aires evening when the conversation is only getting going.
PlaceFood & drink
Florería Atlántico
A basement bar behind a flower shop on Arroyo, with a drinks programme that looks to the port, migration and the city’s many influences.
PlaceFood & drink
Pony Line
Leather, polo references and a burger worth making room for: a sociable hotel bar to begin a Retiro evening without rushing dinner.
GuideFood & drink
Retiro, behind the doors after dark
A hotel bar with something to eat, a late-starting Quintana address and a basement below a florist. Three stops that keep the evening around Retiro.
PlaceCulture
MALBA
Latin American art in Palermo, with room for a long look before the next café or walk.
PlaceActivities
Centro Cultural Recoleta
Turn a Recoleta museum day towards the city’s living arts. Drop into the cultural centre for the programme that catches your eye.