Attractions in Buenos Aires

Argentina's iconic presidential palace with its distinctive salmon-pink facade. The balcony has been the stage for Argentina's most dramatic political moments.

One of the world's most extraordinary necropolises—over 6,400 marble mausoleums where Argentina's elite have been buried since 1822.

The Teatro Colon is one of the world's top five opera houses, rivaling La Scala and the Vienna Staatsoper, with acoustics considered among the finest on Earth.

A fantastical 100-meter Art Nouveau and Neo-Gothic skyscraper on Avenida de Mayo, designed as a physical allegory of Dante's Divine Comedy.

An elegant colonial church next to Recoleta Cemetery, one of the finest examples of early 18th-century Spanish Baroque in Buenos Aires.

A sleek asymmetric rotating pedestrian bridge in Puerto Madero by Santiago Calatrava, evoking a couple dancing tango.

Ranked among the world's most beautiful bookstores, housed inside a magnificently preserved 1919 theater with original frescoed ceiling and ornate balconies.

The 67.5-meter white obelisk at Avenida 9 de Julio and Corrientes is Buenos Aires' most recognizable landmark.

A vibrant open-air street museum in La Boca, famous for riotously colorful painted buildings, tango street performers, and working-class spirit.

Buenos Aires' main cathedral fronts Plaza de Mayo with a neoclassical facade of twelve Corinthian columns concealing a richly decorated interior.