Audio tours
in Buenos Aires

From the most iconic symbol in Argentina to the historic heart of the nation. A walk through downtown Buenos Aires that reveals what buildings, streets and squares hide behind their facade. Approximate audio duration: 30

The most powerful opera house in the southern hemisphere. A journey through and around the Colón that reveals why the world's greatest musicians consider Buenos Aires a mandatory stop. Approximate audio duration: 15 minu

A journey through Recoleta Cemetery where Argentine history rests among marble, legends and influential families. Audio duration: approx 22 minutes.

A journey through Buenos Aires most colorful street where art, tango and Italian immigration created an open air museum. Audio duration: approx 20 minutes.

Pink by decree, built over a colonial fort, and the stage for the speeches that marked a century. Walk around the seat of Argentina's executive power, look up at Evita's balcony, and go down to the ruins buried beneath i

Twelve columns, not a single tower, and a Liberator buried inside. Explore Argentina's most important church, discover why it looks nothing like any other cathedral, and stay for the changing of the guard that protects t

Four hundred years of Argentine history packed into less than a hectare. Walk around the city's oldest pyramid, understand why the Mothers never stopped walking in circles, and discover why this square remains the politi

Where barefoot friars once kept their orchard, Buenos Aires built its first public cemetery, and around it the elite raised palaces to live in and vaults so as never quite to die. Here lie presidents, enemy warlords and

In 1871 yellow fever killed some fourteen thousand people in Buenos Aires, and it started in a tenement in San Telmo. Wealthy families, already drifting north, finished leaving, and their mansions were split into rented

Tango was born in the late nineteenth century on the shores of the River Plate, among immigrants, creoles and Afro-Argentines, blending habanera, milonga and candombe. Respectable families saw it as brothel music, until

Between the mid nineteenth century and 1930 some six million immigrants arrived in Argentina, and almost all of them came in through the port of Buenos Aires. By 1914 one in three people in the country had been born abro

Between 1976 and 1983, a Navy school on Avenida del Libertador operated as one of the largest clandestine centres of detention, torture and extermination of Argentina's last dictatorship. Around five thousand people are

In 1936, for the four hundredth anniversary of the first founding of Buenos Aires, the city raised a white needle almost seventy metres tall in a matter of weeks, at the widest crossing downtown. Many people loathed it,

Between 1976 and 1983, Argentina's military dictatorship set up dozens of secret detention centres in and around Buenos Aires, many of them in garages, basements and houses in ordinary neighbourhoods, a few metres from p

In 1880, as national troops and the forces of Buenos Aires province fought on the edge of the city, President Avellaneda moved his government to a neighbouring town, Belgrano, and Congress met there for months. In its to

The Teatro Colón took eighteen years to build: its first architect died soon after work began, the second was murdered and the third finished it in time to open in 1908 with Aida. Today conductors rank it among the fines

A few blocks from the Casa Rosada, most visitors walk straight past the oldest quarter of Buenos Aires. Here stand the city's oldest church, the block where the Jesuits educated the men of the May Revolution, colonial tu

From 1889 onwards, thousands of Jews from the Russian Empire, and later from Poland, Syria and Morocco, arrived in Buenos Aires. Many settled around Once station and in Villa Crespo, where they built synagogues, Yiddish

South of Buenos Aires, on the banks of the Riachuelo, Argentina's first industrial district was born: hide warehouses, meat-salting plants, tanneries, meatpacking plants and huge factories. The wealthy families who lived

Juan Domingo Perón was elected president three times, overthrown in 1955, spent seventeen years in exile and came back to win again. Eighty years on, his movement still divides Argentina and has produced governments of a