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Buenos Aires, European city. 2 hours with an expert guide.
Buenos Aires, European city. 2 hours with an expert guide.
Tour Retiro and Recoleta
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Highlights
At Recorre BA we invite you to experience the city in a different way with guides specialized in the history of Buenos Aires. We are a team of architects and historians who invite tourists to tour the city of Buenos Aires experiencing its history, its architecture, its characters and the different transformations that have occurred over time.
Our proposal is to be able to understand the history of the city through the urban tour. The streets, the avenues, the parks and the various corners of Buenos Aires hide secrets that are worth telling.
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Itinerary
Plaza General San Martin
15 minsAdmission Ticket FreeWe will tell you about the founding of the city of Buenos Aires and the history of Plaza San Martín. Place where the liberator of America trained his grenadiers to cross the Andes. We will tell you about the various events around the squarePlaza General San Martin
15 minsAdmission Ticket FreeThe growth of the city would begin towards the south of Buenos Aires and, due to various circumstances of diseases, it would continue its growth towards the sector of Barrio Norte, Retiro and Recoleta. The place chosen by the Buenos Aires aristocracy at the beginning of the 20th century would be the Plaza San Martín sector, around the general's monument where the various residential palaces that we will visit outside were built. Argentina at the end of the 19th century inserted itself into the world as an agro-export economy. For this, a great infrastructure transformation will be carried out that will look to Europe as a great reference to follow. We will tell you how the Argentine society of that time copied from the uses and customs, the architecture and infrastructures of the European models.Plaza General San Martin
10 minsAdmission Ticket FreeWe are going to tour the interior of Plaza San Martin to tell you the various stories surrounding the Centennial of the May Revolution of 1910. The location of the great Centennial Pavilion and the myths behind its current footprint.Edificio Kavanagh(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeAn emblem of Buenos Aires architecture from the 1930s. A benchmark of rationalist and art deco architecture in Buenos Aires. It hides myths and legends of love and revenge against the wealthiest families in Buenos Aires society. Its location, style and decoration put the inhabitants of Plaza San Martín in tension for 1936Torre Monumental(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeFor the centenary of the May Revolution of 1910, the different European communities make gifts and presents for Argentina. The English society carries out a work with the aim of commemorating its London emblem. Big Ben and its great bell tower clock. Built by the English, with English materials in a strategic location between the Retiro railway station, El Puerto Madero and Plaza San Martín.Palacio Paz(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeOne of the palaces that we will visit is the Paz Palace. Mr. Paz, politician and landowner, commissioned the great palace to one of the most important architects in Europe. We will tell you the story behind its architecture. The myths and legends of the history of the Paz family.Palacio San Martin(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeThe current chancery of Argentina was a residence of the most important families of Buenos Aires. The Anchorena family. Work of the architect Alejandro Christophersen for 1905. We will tell you about the uses and customs of the Buenos Aires aristocracy at the beginning of the 20th century and how the Buenos Aires copied all their ways of living from European society. Myths and legends of love, betrayal and revenge behind this imposing palace of residencePalacio Estrugamou
10 minsAdmission Ticket Not IncludedWith the advent of the post-World War I crisis and the great crisis of the 1930s, Buenos Aires society suffered a significant economic blow, which led them to find new ways of living without losing their social status as a high-class Buenos Aires society. Large rental buildings begin to be built without losing the European architectural characteristics, uses and customs, and ways of living.Palacio Estrugamou(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeWe will visit and tour Arroyo street. One of the most European and beautiful streets in Buenos Aires. Its galleries, hidden bars, confectioneries and specialty cafeterias.Embajada de Francia(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeWe will visit another of the great housing palaces from the beginning of the 20th century. The Ortiz Basualdo Palace. Currently, the French embassy. A French academic architecture.Monumento a Carlos Pellegrini
10 minsAdmission Ticket IncludedWe will tell you about one of the most influential presidents in Argentine history and his relationship with Europe. Founder of one of the most important gentlemen's clubs in Argentina with the idea of copying the European models of equine clubs. The Jockey Club.
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