Avenida de Mayo
Avenida de Mayo, San Isidro, B1839, Argentina
Avenida de Mayo is Buenos Aires' most architecturally significant street — a 1.
Café Tortoni
825 Avenida de Mayo, Comuna 1, Buenos Aires, C1084, Argentina
Café Tortoni is the oldest coffee house in Buenos Aires — open since 1858 on Avenida de Mayo, and the café that most embodies the city's literary and intellectual tradition.
Casa Rosada
Balcarce 50, Monserrat, Buenos Aires
The Casa Rosada is Argentina's presidential palace — a pink Italianate building on the eastern side of Plaza de Mayo that is most famous for the balcony from which Eva Perón addressed the descamisados (the shirtless ones, Argentina's working class), Maradona celebrated the 1986 World Cup victory, and every Argentine president since has addressed the nation in moments of triumph or crisis.
Cementerio de la Chacarita
680 Guzmán, Comuna 15, Buenos Aires, C1427, Argentina
Chacarita is Buenos Aires' largest cemetery and Recoleta's working-class counterpart — a massive necropolis that houses the remains of Carlos Gardel (the greatest tango singer in history), Juan Domingo Perón (the populist president who shaped modern Argentina), and the everyday porteños whose tombs tell the story of the city's immigrant communities in a way that Recoleta's elite vaults cannot.
Congreso Nacional
Av. Hipólito Yrigoyen 1849, Buenos Aires
The Congreso Nacional is Argentina's parliament building — a Greco-Roman colossus topped by an 80-metre dome that anchors the western end of Avenida de Mayo and faces the Casa Rosada two kilometres away across the political geography of the city.
Plaza de Mayo
Plaza de Mayo, Monserrat, Buenos Aires
Plaza de Mayo is the political heart of Argentina — the square where every major event in the nation's history has played out, from the May Revolution of 1810 that gave the plaza its name to Eva Perón's balcony speeches to the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo who marched every Thursday for decades demanding information about their children 'disappeared' by the military dictatorship.
Recoleta Cemetery
1760 Junín, San Fernando, B1722, Argentina
Recoleta Cemetery is the most extraordinary burial ground in the Americas — a miniature city of 4,691 above-ground vaults arranged along tree-lined avenues, housing the remains of Argentina's presidents, generals, Nobel laureates, and oligarchs in marble mausoleums that range from restrained neoclassical to full-blown Art Nouveau fantasy.
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