Part of the Argentina Travel Guide
← Back to ArgentinaBuenos Aires is where nearly every trip to Argentina starts, and it is worth more than the transit stop most itineraries allow it. The city was built to look at Europe, with Beaux-Arts facades, wide boulevards, and a cemetery in Recoleta that is a small city of its own. What it does with that inheritance is entirely Argentine.
The neighborhoods are distinct enough that you can spend several days without covering the same ground twice. San Telmo has the cobblestones and the Sunday antiques market. Palermo is broken into sub-neighborhoods of murals, restaurants, and parkland. Recoleta is formal and monumental. La Boca is bright, touristed, and worth a short visit rather than a long one.
The rhythm takes adjusting to. Lunch runs until three, dinner rarely starts before nine, and restaurants do not fill until ten. Give it a day and it becomes one of the best things about being here.
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