Puente de la mujer / Bridge of the woman

Port is in dock 3 East Log peatonal bridge is the first work of the architect and Valencian engineer Santiago Calatrava that is constructed in Latin America. It has 160 meters in length and six of wide. Its metallic mast rises 39 meters. The bridge (of an approximated weight of 800 tons) is prepared to move whenever a boat needs to happen. Its traversing gear is one of greatest of the world, with 20 electrical motors in the main axis, that are commanded by computer. The work (donated to the city by an industralist) was made in Spain and it was transferred by parts to Buenos Aires in several boardings. The plastic profile of the work is interpreted by the author like the figure of a pair that dances tango, where the white mast represents the man and the curved silhouette of the bridge to the woman.

South Costanera

Location: next to the Ecological Reserve from South Dock to North Dock

District: Port Log Inauguration: 1918 (like bath)

Collective: 4, 29, 33, 53, 54, 64, 86, 129, 130, 152, 154, 159, 168, 186.

He has been one of the most popular strolls of Buenos Aires for almost a century. People are going to the costanera to walk in bicycle, to trotar, or spending the day in family. In 1918 the municipal bath was inaugurated in the costanera and their beaches became the most concurred of the River of the Silver. In the decades of 1940 and 1950, in the zone they opened to restaurants and theaters where to the night the humorous tangueros and actors acted fashionable, like Aníbal Troilo or Jose “Pepitito” Marrone.

As of 1960 the stroll lost importance, mainly by the contamination of the river, that took to the prohibition to bathe in its waters. In the decades of 1990 and 2000, the costanera and the parks of the boulevards were recovered. The costanera very is visited by day and at night, specially the week ends. In their wide paths numerous “carts” work: food positions at the rate that they specialize in bondiola sandwiches (pig meat).

Ecological reserve

Location: Av. Tristán Achával Rodriguez 1550
District: Port Log Inauguration: 1986
Groups: 4, 29, 33, 53, 54, 64, 86, 129, 130, 152, 154, 159, 168, 186.

With 350 hectares, he is the greater one of the green spaces of Buenos Aires. Hundreds with species of the native flora and fauna of the plain chaco-Pampan and the borders of the River of the Silver populate. During the decades of 1970 and 1980 fillings with rubbish next to the South costanera were made.

The terrain taken to the river were colonized by the local flora and fauna and the area was declared Natural Park and Zone of Reserve in 1986. In the stroll the pastizales cortaderas and forests of typical alders of the region and different species from birds can be known, mammals, amphibians and reptiles. The footpaths of the Reserve, that take until the river, can be crossed on foot or in bicycle, or participating in a guided visit.

Abasto Shopping

It has been constructed taking advantage of I magnify building in where the more important market of Buenos Aires worked food, the Supply. It is an historical, tie zone with the memory of Carlos Gardel and the tango. Shopping counts on 12 rooms of cinema, the numerous premises of clothes, an infantile maintenance center, and patios of food.
Subte: line B, Station Carlos Gardel Bus or group: 24, 26, 29, 41, 61, 62, 64, 68, 71, 99, 101, 115, 118, 124, 132, 146, 155, 168, 188. The Commercial premises: Monday to 22 Sundays 10 to hs. Patios of Meals: Sundays, Monday, Tuesday and 23 Thursdays from 10 to hs. Merc., Friday, sá. and holidays 10 to 1 A.M. hs. Av. Currents 3200, Tel. 4959-3400 District: Supply

Cafe Tortoni

As much its decoration and architecture - the high columns, the old photos, the pictures and sculptures as the young men and the traditional customer of Buenosairean turn it the most famous coffee of Buenos Aires and one of the symbols of the city. In 2008, the Tortoni turns 150 years. It founded it on 1858 Jean Touan, a French immigrant who copied the name of a successful Parisian coffee of the time. Originally it was located to the return, where now it is the seat Roberto Arlt; later it was changed to Rivadavia (those that at the moment is the bottoms of the coffee) and in 1880 the entrance of Avenue of May was opened. In addition to the long list of famous visitors who all typical bar must have (Borges, Pirandello, Rubinstein, Cortázar, Garci'a Lorca, the kings of Spain, Hillary Clinton, F. F. Coppola, etc.), to the Tortoni concur clerks of the zone, politicians, artists, tangueros and, at the moment, thousands of tourists, national as as much foreign. In order to enter the Tortoni it is necessary to make tail. In the menu of the bar one is the most typical of the Buenosairean gastronomy and some products that no longer are obtained in other bars, like merengada milk. The Tortoni works on one of the most important avenues of the city; one of the most representative culturally and also one of most beautiful. In tribute of Avenue of May, of Saturday 12 of April to Sunday 18 of May the Buenosairean government organizes a cycle of activities under the name of “the great one via”. It will include recitales, to char them with writers and a race of young men. The Tortoni, and its scene of tango, is one of the seats of festejo. Conocés the Tortoni? What has of special the place? Conocés other coffees, in Buenos Aires or outside, that looks like to him?

Congreso de la Nacion

Thursday 12 of March of 1863, Guillermo Rawson, Minister of the Interior of president Mitre, he approved and he signed the planes and the budget which to order of the government Jonas Larguia, who towards little had returned of the Pontifical Insigne Academy I gave San Luca, of Rome had prepared the Cordovan architect, to that had been granted a scholarship by the government of Parana. The building would have to be elevated in the corner of the Balcarce streets and Victoria (today Hipólito Yrigoyen) and, in spite of the unusual layout that it offered the land, with its inherited oblique front of the old one hard, Larguia managed to solve the problem and to complete its planes in two months. Thursday 12 of May of 1864, left walking from the House of Government, president Mitre with their four ministers: Rufino de Elizalde, general Gelly and Obes, Eduardo Costa and Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield. In this enclosure of sessions the parliamentary activity, until during the events of 1880 related to federalizacion of Buenos Aires, the steep transfer of senators and deputies took place until the neighboring town of Belgrano, in whose municipality passed (present Sarmiento Museum) sesionaron both legislative chambers. This situation extended during four months, until it found solution principle the conflict of powers between president Avellaneda and the governor of Buenos Aires, Weaving Carlos, and later I am definitively settled with the foundation of the city of the Silver, place of residence of the provincial authorities.

El Cabildo de Buenos Aires

National Historical museum of the Town hall and the Revolution of May guided Visits: Friday to 15,30 (Gratuitous) Saturdays and Sundays to 12,30 ($3), 14 (Gratuitous) and 15 ($3).

The town hall was the legal foundation of all city, as they established the Laws of Indians. For that reason, Don Juan de Garay, the morning of the 11 of June of 1580, day of San Bernabé, designates town hall and subscribes the original act of the city of the Trinidad and Puerto of Santa Maria of Buenos Aires. “Town hall” comes from capitulum, that is to say, “at the top”. These typically Spanish institutions are revitalized when arriving at America. They were constituted by a body colegiado with administrative, legislative, judicial functions, of police and military service; their members were chosen annually between the neighbors, by majority of votes; they met ordinarily in closed town halls and when the subjects required it by their importance, in open town halls. The Town hall of Buenos Aires stood out by its opened town halls, where decisions were taken that escaped to their institutional competition, but which they were foundation of the Argentine emancipation.

The Museum the Museum has like seat the building where the Town hall of the city of the Trinidad and Puerto of Santa Maria of Buenos Aires worked, capital of the Virreinato of the River of the Silver as of 1776. Declared National Historical Monument in 1933, at the moment it occupies he himself lot that assigned to Don Juan de Garay when founding the city to him on 1580. The building and its collections conform an only patrimony, that evokes those historical and political facts that they forged our identity like country: the institutional town halls and their functions, reconquer and defense of the city during the English invasions in 1806-1807, the Revolution of May and the First Governing body in 1810.

Teatro Colon

Owner of a acoustics of reference in the world, unequivocal index of consecration and mentions inescapable of those who love music, Columbus has been from always a theater venerated by the public and the greatest artists. Deposit taker of one releases begun Argentine musical tradition in century XVIII, was inaugurated the 25 of May of 1908 with “Aida”, Giuseppe Verdi, after having been in construction during almost twenty years. The successive architects who had to their position the imposing work (Francesco Tamburini, Vittorio Meano and Jules Dormal) conciliated in their design as dissimilar styles as attic-Greek, that predominates in the outside, and - in words of Meano- “the general characters of the Italian Renaissance, the good own distribution and the solidity of the German architecture, and the grace, variety and gallantry of ornamentación associated to the French architecture”, until conforming an admirable unit of “the eclectic” style of century XIX. Strictly speaking, the urban meaning of Columbus exceeds the frame a theater to appear, along with the Palace of Congress and the Pink House, between more representative historical monuments of the Argentine Republic.

La Casa Rosada

The Pink House is the seat of the Executive authority of the Argentine Republic and National Historical Monumento, in is the office of the President of the Argentina Nation. This colossal building is located in the City of Buenos Aires, in front of the historical seat of May. Its characteristic color is pink and is considered one of the most emblematic buildings of Buenos Aires. It lodges in addition the Museum to the House of Government, with objects related to the presidents of the country.

El obelisco de Buenos Aires

The city of Buenos Aires has symbols that define it, the main one is the Obelisco, in the crossing of Current Avenues and 9 of Julio. It shines right in the center Buenosairean from year 1936. It symbolizes the two foundations of Buenos Aires and the hoisting for the first time of the national flag in the church San Nicholas. The authentic obeliscos are monolithic; that is to say, they are formed of a single stone block. Created by the Egyptians, they had religious character. The obeliscos raised at the remote times are numerous that last located in different cities of the world, but most famous, as much by their historical importance as by their lines, as soon as they pass the average dozen. Ours he is too young. Year 1936 ran and a political year was lived special. The announcement of the erection of the obelisco promoted a movement of repudio, in charge of a numerous sector of the public and the media. The negative outcry was disregarded and the empecinados ones in carrying out the project accelerated the works. The Buenosairean obelisco was raised in the term of 60 days. Nevertheless, from their inauguration all the voices were silenced that discredited it before being born. They were left some, very few, that insisted requesting their demolition. But the obelisco, our obelisco, went imposing for the single reason of its presence. The citizens began to watch it with good eyes. They felt like a a friend, like an inhabitant more of the city. It was constituted o'clock of reference, in a species of watch. The Obelisco is located in the call Seat of the Republic, almost exactly in the vertex that forms avenues 9 of Julio, 140 meters wide, North Diagonal, of 33 Current meters and the Avenue, also of 33 meters wide. Probably a many newness turns out to find out that exactly below the Obelisco two lines of superposed underground street cars run, the B and the D. On both tunnels a reinforced concrete platform forms the base, of 20 meters of each side and 1.50 meters of stop, that supports in two of its flanks on shoes of he himself material. Its visible structure has a length of 67 meters and means in its totality. 7 by 7 of base, and until the initiation of the apex 63 meters, that is 9 times the side of the base. The apex, that measures 4.5 meters, has in its greater part 3.5 meters of side. Inner he is hollow, but each 8 meters there is a slab with a hole in means. These slabs leave an emptiness in one of their angles where it is installed marine stairs to accede until his peak. In this one point, in its internal part, there is a sheave that would allow to hoist some bulk by the central hole of slabs. The Obelisco has front door in its base and four windows in its apex. This one superior part has been illuminated by outside years after its construction. Its interior has electrical illumination. And although it is invisible given its height, the Obelisco is provided with lightning rods very small, whose cables run by the interior. It is had with armed cement, replacing primitive marble slabs. This change was made as a result of the loosening of some of these slabs, motivated by deficiencies in his hurried construction. The Obelisco weighs 170 tons, cost 200 thousand pesos national currency and was designed by the architect Alberto Prebisch. Its erection was arranged by Municipal Intendance, in charge of Don Mariano de Vedia and Mitre, like a tribute to the centenary of the foundation of Buenos Aires

Jardin Botanico

It was inaugurated in 1898; it considers the work summit of landscape architect and French Carlos Thays. In an area of almost eight hectares account with between 5,000 and 6,000 plant species. The Argentine flora receives the most important, with species characteristics of each province. Other sections are intended flora from every continent. The Garden is decorated with numerous sculptures and sources.

Zoo de Buenos Aires

It was created for more than 100 years.
It is a walk which can devote much of a day:possesses a variety of animal species and an architecture that reproduces classics of the world.
The portal is a reproduction of the Arch of Titus Triunfal in Rome; the Palace of Elephants is a replica of the Temple of the goddess Nimaschi in Mumbai, later is the Temple of Vesta, construction circular of 16 Corinthian columns copy of which is in Rome.
The Zoo blanket also numerous works of art, as the Niña with flowers, a copy of the work of the Italian Canova, the Mono fallen, from Passani, and a female figure carved by the Argentine sculptress Lola Mora.

Palermo Hollywood

Among John B. Justo, Santa Fe, Niceto Vega and Dorrego
The railway is the limit of Palermo Soho. On the other side extends Palermo Hollywood, name which is due to the presence of studies of cinema and television, producers and radios.
The area is distinguished by its bars and by the quality of its restaurants: international dishes, ethnic cooking and dishes of author.

Palermo Soho, the Best Soho of the world.

Palermo Soho is a small area of Palermo Viejo around Plaza Serrano (officially Plazoleta Cortázar), and it is a newly fashionable area for fashion, design, restaurants, bars and street culture. The atmosphere in many cafés and restaurants strives to be alternative, which makes this area of the city especially popular with young, upper-middle class Argentines as well as foreign tourists. The traditional low houses have been adapted into boutiques and bars, creating a bohemianfeel. The square has a crafts fair.

La Boca

La Boca it is a district of Buenos Aires, in Argentina. It is located in the Southeastern limit of the city.
In the zone where at the moment is the Mouth, it was the place where Pedro de Mendoza it made the first foundation of Buenos Aires in 1536.
To the residents of La Boca and by extension to its football team, the popular Boca Juniors, deformation is still known like Xeneizes (“zeneixi”, that is to say, genoveses, in its own one dialecto). The immigrants constructed metal plate houses channeled, often mounted on piles or high foundations due to the frequent floods, and painted with shining colors.
Harbor and proletarian zone, the greater artistic exponent of the district was Benito Quinquela Martin, a painter who reflected the tasks of the port and the daily life of his people in neoimpresionist style.
The vicinity of the Brook is one of the sectors of the city more visited by tourists to be very tie to the mythology of tango. Return of Rocha, where the Brook makes an ample curve, he is one of his more characteristic places, like Caminito, a side street immortalized by the tango of he himself name, of Juan de God Filiberto. There they are sold paintings, souveniers and crafts. Sundays there are pairs of tango that dance on their pavement.
The shore was turned stroll and a work of engineering hydraulics has sworn in the curse of floods. The stage of Juniors Mouth is considered a monument by xeneizes. Call The Chocolate box by its high launching slips that give box form him, the spectacle of a party of soccer it is unforgettable by the recognized fervor from the fans (become fond of) from Mouth and its carnival from lights from flare, papers of colors and pumps of roar there.
The Brook shows a landscape of boats left, the skeleton of an old one bridge of iron and the silhouettes of silos and constructions industrialists in the other border. This rough landscape, only mitigated by the colorful one of the houses, inspired the tango Fog of the Brook, of the musician Juan Carlos Cobián and the poet Enrique Cadícamo.
In addition to the Quinquela Museum Martin, in La Boca is the exhibition hall of the Foundation Prow, that makes Argentine contemporary painting samples and Latin American.

Taking a walk by the Rosedal

The concurred sector more, surrounded by one by the lakes of the park is the Rosedal, prote'ge' in all its contour by a forged iron grate. Their greater attractiveness is: The Garden of the poets, that exhibits busts that important writers of different countries remember; the Patio Andalusian, constructed in 1929 and flattered porla city from Seville to the city of Buenos Aires; the Public square, cover of enredaderas trepadores rosales and that culminates in the escultórica work of Emile Peynot “Floral Offering to Sarmiento”; and the Bridge, magnificent construction of wood that crosses the lake, made on design of the recognized architect Benito Carrasco in 1914. The Rosaleda, itself, with its numerous stonecutters of different classes from roses, is the heart of the park, where all the springs bloom more of the 12,000 units of roses that lodge in an explosion of color and aromas.

The schedules in which the Rosedal is the public open are: Summer: 8.00 to 20,00 hs. Winter: 9.00 to 18,00 hs.