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The borough of Recoleta is home to a number of places of interest, including the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Biblioteca Nacional, the Centro Cultural Recoleta, the Faculty of Law of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, the Basílica Nuestra Señora de Pilar, the Palais de Glace, the Café La Biela and the Cementerio de la Recoleta, where ...
The Obelisk (Spanish: Obelisco de Buenos Aires) is one of the city's most famous landmarks and a venue for various cultural activities and other events. It is placed at the heart of Buenos Aires. Porteños refer to it simply as El Obelisco. The obelisk was built in May 1936 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first founding of the city.
Buenos Aires, La Reina del Plata City of Buenos Aires is in the midst of a tourism boom, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council, [7] it reveals strong growth for Argentina Travel and Tourism in 2007 [8] and in coming years, and the prestigious travel and tourism publication; Travel + Leisure Magazine, a monthly publication leader in the worldwide market of travel magazines, travelers ...
The Cueva de las Manos, literally "the cave of hands", in Río Pinturas contains an exceptional assemblage of prehistoric cave art created by hunter-gatherer communities. In addition to the numerous stencils of human hands, there are depictions of people, plants, hunting scenes, and animals, in particular guanacos that are still present in the ...
Academia Nacional del Tango de la República Argentina: Buenos Aires: Dance: History of the tango: Ángel María de Rosa Municipal Museum of Art: Junín: Art: ARA Presidente Sarmiento: Buenos Aires: Maritime: 1890s training ship: ARA Uruguay: Buenos Aires: Maritime: 1870s Corvette museum ship Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum: Buenos ...
Caminito ("little walkway" or "little path" in Spanish) is a street museum and a traditional alley, located in La Boca, a neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The place acquired cultural significance because it inspired the music for the famous tango " Caminito (1926) ", composed by Juan de Dios Filiberto .
The Guardia Urbana de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires Urban Guard) was a specialized civilian force of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, that used to deal with different urban conflicts with the objective of developing actions of prevention, dissuasion and mediation, promoting effective behaviors that guarantee the security and the integrity of ...
The Bank of the City of Buenos Aires (Banco Ciudad de Buenos Aires), doing business as Banco Ciudad, is a publicly owned, municipal commercial bank in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was founded on May 23, 1878, under the name Monte de Piedad (Piety Mount), with the purpose of fighting usury in the city (mostly targeting the growing wave of ...