See the essential BA's Musts from the Obelisco to La Boca (w/ride to La Boca)!
- When: Available 10:00pm (or ask!) daily, 365 days/year, rain or shine
- Duration: 4 hours (approximately)
- Price: USD $110 p/p all tax included. A minimum of 2 people is required. Ask about single person and large group pricing.
- Discounts: Discounts available for large groups.
- Meet: Hotel pickup is available at downtown hotels for a small additional fee (USD $20) if you let us know with at least 24hs advance advise. Otherwise your guide will wait for you at the door, outside the 'Petit Colon' cafe, corner of 505 Libertad St (with Lavalle St) one block away from Obelisco and across from the Law Courts, downtown, holding a small 'BA-Walking-Tours' sign. Get printable, bilingual ('good-for-taxi' or asking) directions here, or see map here.
- Note: after this ultra-enjoyable walk + drive, you will understand Buenos Aires (and Argentina!!) much better. It includes over 45 main city landmarks (different from our other walks). This is not a strenuous walk and full itinerary will be covered depending on time and circumstances at time of tour. At some point we'll stop for coffee or refreshments at some emblematic cafe of cultural or historical value. Snacks, drinks, hotel pickup, transportation, foot massage, mid-life-counseling, good sense of humour and gratuities are not included (actually sense of humour is poor, scarce and generally unavailable!)
Some key sights:
- Av. 9 de Julio & Obelisco (its erection explained)
- Plaza Lavalle: from posh to revolutionary
- Colegio Roca: literally a temple for knowledge
- Teatro Colon: one of the world's top Opera Houses
- Main Synagogue: The Jewish settlers and their contribution to local culture
- Teatro Cervantes: Spain in Argentina
- Music Stands Installation: literally no words
- Costaguta Palace: new-meets-old in esthetic harmony
- Law Courts: what is law like in Argentina?
- Jewelers Street: modern guilds alike medieval ones
- Masonic Headquarters: did freemasons free all of America?
- Music Stores St.: the modern guilds
- Pasaje Rivarola / La Piedad: aborted architectural trends
- Confiteria Del Molino: frozen belle-epoque beauty
- Congress Bldg. & Park: how many architects murdered?
- Mile Zero/Palacios Monument/Rodin's 'The Thinker'
- Av de Mayo: How we became Paris (and Madrid) of the South
- La Inmobiliaria: grandiose arquitecture starts with this
- Awesome Barolo Bldg.: Dante's Divine Comedy turns skyscraper
- Diario Critica/Hotel Majestic
- Iguazu Falls & Quixote Monuments + Evita's "hamburger" Mural
- Hotel Castelar/36 Billares/Cafe Iberia
- Cafe Tortoni
- Edificio La Prensa
- Pasaje Roverano
- Palacio Municipal (Evita's private rooms)
- Plaza de Mayo (here we board public transportation to La Boca)
- Tobacco, Modern Art Museum & Aristotle Onassis' peanuts
- Urban Concentration Camps & the 30,000 Dissapeared (Gral. Cacciattore's Highway)
- Lezama Park & National History Museum
- Pedro de Mendoza's Statue--Earliest Fortified Settlement Site
- Russian Orthodox Church (partly donated by the last Czar in 1914)
- James Brittain's "toll road" to La Boca
- La Boca & Caminito St. story ...and much more!
