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Parque Provincial Ernesto Tornquist
This 67-sq-km park, 25km from Sierra de la Ventana, draws visitors from throughout the province. There are two entrances. The first is 5km west of Villa Ventana and home to the Centro de Visitantes , which has a small display on local ecology. The main hike here is Cerro Bahía Blan
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Paseo del Bosque
Plantations of eucalyptus, gingko, palm and subtropical hardwoods cover Paseo del Bosque, parkland expropriated from an estancia at the time of the city’s founding. It attracts a collection of strolling families, smooching lovers and sweaty joggers, and contains various interesting
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Obelisco
The city’s unmistakable landmark is the famous Obelisco, which soars 67m above the oval Plaza de la República and was dedicated in 1936, on the 400th anniversary of the first Spanish settlement on the Río de la Plata. Following major soccer victories, boisterous fans circle the Obe
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Los Pibes del Playón
This small bakery is a locally-owned cooperative run by an energetic woman, Cristina Mangravide, who wanted to improve the lives of La Boca’s poorest children. Home made baked goods, including alfajores – those delicious sweet cookie sandwiches Argentina is famous for – are created
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Museo de la Ciudad
This upstairs museum was being remodeled at the time of research, but in the future you should expect exhibitions on porteño life and history. Downstairs is a large annex hall showcasing changing exhibits, while next door is an atmospheric restaurant with the Argentine art of filet
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Facultad de Ingenieria
This neoclassical and monstrous building is the engineering school for the Universidad de Buenos Aires. It was originally built for the Fundación Eva Perón and is an oddball landmark once described by Gerald Durrell as ‘a cross between the Parthenon and the Reichstag.’In front of t
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Albúfera Mar Chiquita
Fed by creeks from the Sierras de Tandil and sheltered by a chain of sand dunes, the lagoon Albúfera Mar Chiquita alternately drains into the ocean or absorbs seawater, depending on the tides. This creates a unique ecosystem boasting huge biodiversity, and is the only lagoon of its
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Ministerio de Economía
In 1955 naval aircraft strafed the Casa Rosada and other nearby buildings during the Revolución Libertadora, which toppled Juan Perón’s regime. On the northern side of the appropriately bureaucratic Ministerio de Economía, an inconspicuous plaque commemorates the attacks (look for
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Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales
Way over to the west, the oval Parque del Centenario is a large open space containing this excellent natural-science museum. On display are large collections of meteorites, rocks and minerals, seashells, insects and dinosaur skeleton replicas. The taxidermy and skeleton rooms are e
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Museo Acatushún
The impressive Museo Acatushún was created by Natalie Prosser Goodall, a North American biologist who married into the family. Emphasizing the region’s marine mammals, the museum has inventoried thousands of mammal and bird specimens; among the rarest specimens is a Hector’s beaked
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Museo del Bicentenario
Behind the Casa Rosada you’ll notice a glassy wedge marking this airy and sparkling underground museum, housed within the brick vaults of the old aduana (customs house). Head down into the open space, which has over a dozen side rooms – each dedicated to a different era of Argentin
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Las Marianas
One of the prettiest wineries in the region, this one was built in 1922, abandoned in 1950 and reinstated in 1999. The main building is gorgeous, with thick adobe walls and a few examples of the original winemaking equipment lying around. The mountain views out over the vineyard ar
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Glaciar Perito Moreno
Among the Earths most dynamic and accessible ice fields, Glaciar Perito Moreno is the stunning centerpiece of the southern sector of Parque Nacional Los Glaciares. Locally referred to as Glaciar Moreno, it measures 30km long, 5km wide and 60m high, but what makes it exceptional in
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Reserva Natural Sierra del Tigre
This park is 6km south of Tandil, at the end of Calle Suiz, off Av Don Bosco. The rocky hills are fun to climb, and in spring the reserve is filled with fragrant wildflowers. The peaks offer views of the town to one side and the patchwork pampean farms stretching out from the other
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Cañón de Talampaya
The focus of a visit to the park is this spectacular dry (usually) watercourse bounded by sheer sandstone cliffs. Condors soar on thermals, and guanacos, rheas and maras can be seen in the shade of algarrobo trees along the sandy canyon floor. A series of enigmatic petroglyphs carv
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Parque Lezama
Scruffy Parque Lezama was once thought to be the site of Buenos Aires’ founding in 1536, but archeological teams have refuted the hypothesis. Today’s green park hosts old chess-playing gentlemen, bookworms toting mate (traditional Argentine tea) gourds and teenagers kissing on park
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Mercado de San Telmo
This market was built in 1897 by Juan Antonio Buschiazzo, the same Italian-born Argentine architect who designed Cementerio de la Recoleta. It occupies the inside of an entire city block, though you wouldn’t be able to tell just by looking at the modest sidewalk entrances. The wrou
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Teatro Colón
This gorgeous and impressive seven-story building is one of BA’s most prominent landmarks. It’s the city’s main performing-arts venue and the only facility of its kind in the country, a world-class forum for opera, ballet and classical music with astounding acoustics. Occupying an
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Trinidad Ruins
Spectacular ruins, with the red-brown stone of the church contrasting strongly with the flower-studded green grass and surrounding hillscapes. Unlike at the Argentine missions, there is much decoration preserved here: the scalloped niches still hold timeworn sculptures, and the fon
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Güirá Oga
On the way to the falls, this is an animal hospital and center for rehabilitation of injured wildlife. It also carries out valuable research into the Iguazú forest environment and has a breeding program for endangered species. You get walked around the jungly park by one of the sta
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