Buenos Aires: Be Enticed!
Why not spend a few extra days exploring the wonderful cosmopolitan city of Buenos Aires. The city’s melting pot of cultures can keep any traveller busy for days. Learn more about the tango or street food, take a cooking course, or discover the city’s eclectic architecture, or uncover the psyche of porteños through their street art and graffiti. Below are some tour suggestions that will enhance a visit to Buenos Aires:
The City Speaks: Graffiti & Street Art : In recent years restriction-free Buenos Aires has become a breeding ground for street art and graffiti. As one of the latest contemporary artistic expressions, Graffiti is marginal and transgressive, political and poetic. It is free expression for both local and international artists. Street art and graffiti is well rooted in the culture of Buenos Aires where porteños express their ideas whether political, social and even sentimental.
This 4 hour tour showcases street art and graffiti. It starts with a visit to the Modern Latin American Art Museum-MALBA, which houses the 1930´s Argentine answer to Mexican Muralism “Manifestación” by Antonio Berni, The tour continues along the streets of Palermo to experience the contemporary evolution of this artistic expression.
Buenos Aires Architecture Through the Years : Buenos Aires is a city with a rich architectural legacy. On this tour explore the city’s history from Colonial to Post Modernism architecture. This 3 or 4 hour tour will reveal examples of Neoclassicism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Rationalism buildings. Admire the Granados Ditch, the House of Spiritual Exercises, the Metropolitan Cathedral, the Colon Theatre…to name a few. Buenos Aires is a collage of architectural styles that reflects the city’s identity and history
Buenos Aires Market : One of the best ways to learn about a city is through your taste buds. Dishes are a reflection the city’s history and traditions, how people live, what food they produce and how they prepare it. Begin your introduction of Buenos Aires’ food and wine with a visit to Mercado del Progreso, a local market in the rarely visited small neighborhood of Caballito. Learn about produce from beef to garlic to cheese to lemons. From the market head to San Isidro to enjoy lunch at a small local restaurant located in a small private house.
Street Food Tour
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Street food is another way to experience
what porteños’ taste, chose and enjoy.
On this tour, explore on foot the street food in the San Telmo area. En-route stop at an empanada stand, savour
the irresistible choripan and end with pizza that has its own Buenos Aires’
personality. End the tour with an
Italian influenced food…Italian gelato!
Cooking Class : Take a cooking class in an informal private kitchen or in a formal restaurant. Both are hands on experience and are fun ways of learning about Argentina food traditions. Enjoy the fruits of your labour at the end of the class.
Tango - Mi Buenos Aires Querido : Tango as defined by Enrique Santos Discepolo (the philosopher of tango) is "a sad thought to be danced". On this 4 hour tour you follow in the footsteps of Carlos Gardel, the voice of tango. The tour begins with a visit the Museo Carlos Gardel in the neighbourhood of Abasto. From here you stroll along the streets with images of Carlos Gardel and song lyrics written on sidewalks. The Carlos Gardel underground station is decorated with images of the singer. This area is also rich in architecture and theatre. You may even come across an impromptu tango lesson!
