Bs Aires Neighbourhoods
Here's some information on some of Buenos Aires' major neighbourhoods.
Puerto Madero
This is the youngest neighbourhood in Buenos Aires located between the financial area and the River Plate; it has been the major importing/exporting center ever since the Colonial times in the country, as well as the driving force of its progress and the very first place the immigrants saw when they arrived to Argentina over a century ago. The docks and old warehouses were completely recycled and turned into state-of-the-art offices and fancy restaurants and hotels, creating a true leisure, gastronomic and business center. Its streets and boulevards are named after famous Latin-American women.
Recolecta
One of the most exclusive neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires, with mansions of French Academism contrasted with towers of modern architecture. It really stands out, particularly because of its lordly ambience and its tree-lined streets, restaurants, cafés, antique dealers and haute couture shops. The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Museum of Fine Arts) and the Our Lady of Pilar Basilica stand out, along with the neighbouring cultural and shopping center, and the famous cemetery, where some of the most honourable men and women of our country’s history are buried.
Palermo
This is one of the city’s largest and prettiest neighbourhoods, featuring parks, lagoons, wide avenues and groves. There are residences with great architectonic value, many of which house embassies and museums, such as the National Museums of Decorative Art and Oriental Art. The fondness for equestrian sports is shown in the Argentine Racecourse and Polo Tournaments or Pato matches (pato being a genuinely Argentine sport), all of them held at the Campo Argentino de Polo (Argentine Polo Field). Near the racecourse you can find “Las Cañitas” district, a place to enjoy fine food and nightlife.
San Telmo
San Telmo is one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods. Colonial houses and the old “conventillos” (big houses rented by poor immigrants who arrived massively to Buenos Aires at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century), were recycled and turned into ateliers for artists and craftsmen, antique dealers, bars, restaurants and tango houses.
La Boca
A neighbourhood created by immigrants —mostly Italian— who came to our country from 1880 to 1980, and conferred it a typical countenance it still shows today. Its characteristic features are one-floor houses, made of wood and sheet, painted in bright colours, built on posts so as to protect them from floods, sidewalks with different levels, old cobble stone streets, a ship cemetery, cafetines (small cafés) and naval warehouses, which altogether provide the typical harbour ambience. Caminito, is the most famous picture of La Boca, turned into a pedestrian-street-museum opened to Argentine artists and sculptors, Tango dancers and Tango singers; the Benito Quinquela Martín Museum of Fine Arts; and "La Bombonera"— the Boca Juniors soccer club stadium, where you cannot miss a match against its eternal rival, i.e. River Plate.