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Palermo Soho and Palermo Hollywood
Buenos Aires' trendiest district of boutique shops, concept stores, artisan design markets, street art, and the city's finest café culture and restaurant scene centred around leafy plazas.
▲ Steady·Score +20
Buenos Aires
Best Things to Do in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires' greatest neighbourhoods, tango, steak houses, museums, and experiences in the 'Paris of South America'.
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Recoleta Cemetery and Evita's Tomb
One of the world's most extraordinary cemeteries — a city of ornate marble mausoleums where Argentina's elite are interred. Eva Perón's tomb draws pilgrims from across the world to this labyrinthine necropolis.
▲ Steady·Score +13
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Tango Show and Milonga in San Telmo
Buenos Aires is the birthplace of tango — watching a passionate stage performance at Café de los Angelitos or dancing at a neighbourhood milonga (social dance) are non-negotiable Buenos Aires experiences.
▲ Steady·Score +10
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Parrilla Dinner: Argentina's Finest Beef
Eating at a traditional Buenos Aires parrilla (grill restaurant) — a perfectly seared bife de chorizo, mollejas (sweetbreads), and morcilla black pudding with Malbec wine — is the definitive Argentine experience.
▲ Steady·Score +10
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La Boca and El Caminito
The colourful corrugated iron houses of El Caminito in the La Boca dockworker neighbourhood are Argentina's most photographed street. Tango dancers perform outdoors and street artists display their work.
▲ Steady·Score +10
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Puerto Madero Waterfront and Ecological Reserve
The regenerated docklands neighbourhood offers converted red-brick warehouses now home to top restaurants, the stunning Puente de la Mujer bridge by Calatrava, and the wild grassland ecological reserve behind.
▲ Steady·Score +9
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San Telmo Sunday Market
Buenos Aires' oldest neighbourhood comes alive every Sunday with a massive antiques, art, and crafts fair in Plaza Dorrego — tango buskers, vintage finds, and empanadas eaten on street corners.
▲ Steady·Score +9
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Feria de Mataderos Folk Market
On Sunday afternoons, the Mataderos gaucho market in the city's outskirts delivers folk music, traditional dances, horse demonstrations, and the best locro stew and pastelitos pastries in Buenos Aires.
▲ Steady·Score +8
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Bookshops of Buenos Aires (El Ateneo Grand Splendid)
El Ateneo Grand Splendid — a former 1919 theatre converted into a bookshop — is regularly named the world's most beautiful bookshop. Buenos Aires has more bookshops per capita than any city on Earth.
▲ Steady·Score +6
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MALBA (Museum of Latin American Art)
The Museo de Arte Latinoamericano houses Argentina's finest collection of 20th-century Latin American art — Frida Kahlo, Fernando Botero, Diego Rivera — in a stunning modernist building in Palermo.
▲ Steady·Score +6
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Tigre Delta Day Trip
An hour from Buenos Aires, the Paraná River Delta's waterways, rowing clubs, and weekend houses are accessible by launch boat from Tigre's fruit market dock — a completely different Argentina from the capital city.
▲ Steady·Score +5
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Teatro Colón Opera and Ballet
Consistently ranked among the world's top five opera houses, the Teatro Colón's Beaux-Arts interior is one of Buenos Aires' greatest architectural treasures. Evening performances and guided daytime tours are essential.
▲ Steady·Score -1
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