Free Palermo Tour Buenos Aires

Understand Argentinian passion for tango and learn the history of this wonderful passionate dance.
Explore the hippest neighborhood in Buenos Aires, with the best bars, restaurants, and clubs or ‘boliches’.
Learn why Palermo was the favorite neighborhood of the greatest Argentinean writers, such as Borges or Cortazar.

Palermo neighborhood is located just behind Avenida de Santa Fe, one of the busiest thoroughfares in the capital of Argentina. With tree-lined streets, colonial-style buildings and colorful art street murals, Palermo shines with a unique, distinctive character. Join a local guide and explore the coolest neighborhood in Buenos Aires, the area with the highest density of cultural and gastronomic options in the city, an area so hip that they had to add Soho to its name! Join us on our Free Palermo Tour in Buenos Aires and discover how traditional tango has become a modern form of existence.

Walk through a neighborhood which used to be a suburb and now has become the home of the most cutting-edge movements in Buenos Aires. Imagine its past of dusty, dim-lit streets walked by bandits and ‘malevos’ whistling improvised tango tunes from shadow to shadow. Admire its transformation: How its humble one-floor houses with big wooden doors or rusty metal shutters have become works of art covered by murals or vertical gardens. Enjoy a fresh craft beer or a good glass of Malbec wine in one of its many trendy bars, where ‘porteños’ go to both see and be seen.

In the Free Tour of Palermo Buenos Aires, you will cover points such as the Italy Square, the Garibaldi monument or the Argentine Hippodrome. You’ll discover why this unique and special neighborhood had such great magnetism over great writers like Cortazar or Borges. You will learn about the Tango, you will enjoy a fun and relaxed evening of art and music, and you may even learn about the coolest 'boliches’ where to stay dancing until dawn. For Palermo Soho is fashion, gastronomy and leisure; street art and avant-garde music; tango and Mendoza wine... And, most importantly, a place where the cutting-edge meets tradition.