Free Recoleta & Retiro Tour Buenos Aires

3 Hours
3 Hours

Free Recoleta & Retiro Tour Buenos Aires

  • Breath the atmosphere of the “porteño” elegance as you walk past many of the sophisticated palaces built by the local land owners.
  • Learn about the tragedy of the Malvinas War and the consequences it still has in Argentina today.
  • Discover some of the green spaces that define the northern neighborhoods of Buenos Aires.
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Tour Features

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Monument to General San Martin

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Monumental Tower

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Pacific Galleries

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San Martin Palace

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Monument to the Fallen in the Falklands

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French Embassy

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Kavanagh Building

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Cordoba & Florida Avenue

These are some of the features your tour might include, but please bear in mind that every guide create their unique itinerary to provide the best possible experience.

Guides Leading this Tour

Rodrigo Salinas

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Where does the tour start?
You will receive the full meeting point details and a map after you finalize your booking, in a confirmation email.
Do I have to book my Free Tour?
Yes, it's necessary to book your Free Tour in order to receive the full meeting point details via email on time. This helps ensure an enjoyable experience and good coordination between guides and tour guests. Booking is free, quick, and easy!
Can I contact my guide?
Yes, you will be able to message your guide with any questions that you might have after making a reservation, up until the start of the tour.
Can I make a booking for a larger group?
Maybe! In order to keep the group sizes manageable, each guide sets their own limit of guests per booking and departure. Choose the Free Tour you want to book, select the number of people in your group, and see if there are any departures available that suit your needs.
Are Free Tours really Free?
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Jorge Luis Borges, a great writer from Buenos Aires, once said: “Argentinians are Italians who speak Spanish, think in French, and would like to be English.” A quote which perfectly reflects the well-earned reputation of Buenos Aires as being the most European city in the Americas. On the Free Tour of Retiro & Recoleta you will explore the most sophisticated area of the capital; a place so European in appearance and style, you will feel walking down the streets of a capital from the old continent. This is an elegant and easy walk along beautiful avenues where you will have fun learning about the contemporary history of Argentina. You will understand the importance of General San Martin in the great park dedicated to his memory, and you will understand why the impressive Tower of the English changed its name to Monumental Tower.

Discover how the wealthy 19th century bourgeoisie made a massive effort to “Europeanize” the city, materializing projects of great magnitude and worthy of Pharaohs; such as the Argentinean Pavilion of Paris’ 1898 World Exhibition which was dismantled piece-by-piece only to be put back together again on the other side of the Atlantic, or the Monumental Tower which is made only of British materials shipped across the ocean. Learn about the ever-so-complicated relationship between the UK and Argentina, which was so fertile at the end of the 19th century, when the Victorian empire financed the construction of the railway and commerce was plentiful between both countries, yet so difficult at the end of the 20th century due to the Falklands War.

Walk through Cordoba & Florida Avenue to see French shopping galleries built in imitation of the Bon Marche of Paris, but which copy the structure of the indoor streets of the Galleria Victor Emmanuel II of Milano. Admire the contrast between the late 19th century buildings and the impressive rationalist architecture from the mid-20th century, perfectly exemplified by the wonderful Kavanagh Building, an icon of Buenos Aires’ architecture. On the Free Tour of Retiro and Recoleta, amongst palaces and monuments that will make you doubt over which side of the Atlantic you are on, you will not only understand the Argentinean idiosyncrasy —so different to the rest of America— but also enjoy the most elegant and sophisticated Latin-American capital of all!

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