Plaza de Mayo [1]: Buenos Aires’s historic center is ground zero for Argentine public life.
Café Tortoni [2]: For nearly a century and a half, the Avenida de Mayo’s traditional gathering place has been an island of stability in an ocean of political, social, and economic upheaval.
Galerías Pacífico [3]: Even non-shoppers will appreciate the vision with which 1990s developers adapted this historic Microcentro building to contemporary commerce, while preserving its stunning murals.
Teatro Colón [4]: Renovated for the bicentennial, the continent’s most important performing arts venue retains its style and dignity.
Plaza Dorrego [5]: Antiques vendors and spirited performers clog San Telmo’s principal plaza and surrounding streets every Sunday.
Cementerio de la Recoleta [6]: For both the living and the dead, the barrio of Recoleta is the capital’s prestige address.
MALBA [7]: For decades, even during dictatorships, Argentina has had a thriving modern art scene, but Palermo’s striking Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires has given it a new focal point.
Museo Eva Perón [8]: Promoted by Evita’s partisans, Argentina’s first museum dedicated to a woman is as notable for what it omits as for what it includes.
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales [9]: In the untouristed barrio of Caballito, this improving museum sheds light on Argentina’s dinosaur discoveries of recent decades.
Isla Martín García [10]: Just off the Uruguayan coast, its bedrock rising out of the River Plate’s muddy waters, the historic island of Martín García has been a colonial fortress and even a political prison, but today it’s an absorbing getaway from the Buenos Aires bustle. It is reached from the suburb of Tigre, only 45 minutes by train from the capital.
Links:
[1] http://www.moon.com/destinations/argentina/buenos-aires/sights/monserrat/plaza-de-mayo
[2] http://www.moon.com/destinations/argentina/buenos-aires/sights/monserrat/cafe-tortoni
[3] http://www.moon.com/destinations/argentina/buenos-aires/sights/microcentro/galerias-pacifico
[4] http://www.moon.com/destinations/argentina/buenos-aires/sights/microcentro/teatro-colon
[5] http://www.moon.com/destinations/argentina/buenos-aires/sights/san-telmo/plaza-dorrego
[6] http://www.moon.com/destinations/argentina/buenos-aires/sights/recoleta-and-barrio-norte/cementerio-de-la-recoleta
[7] http://www.moon.com/destinations/argentina/buenos-aires/sights/palermo/malba
[8] http://www.moon.com/destinations/argentina/buenos-aires/sights/palermo/museo-eva-peron
[9] http://www.moon.com/destinations/argentina/buenos-aires/sights/outer-barrios/museo-argentino-de-ciencias-naturales
[10] http://www.moon.com/destinations/argentina/buenos-aires/vicinity-buenos-aires/isla-martin-garcia