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Glaciarium
Unique and exciting, this gorgeous museum illuminates the world of ice. Displays and bilingual films show how glaciers form, along with documentaries on continental ice expeditions and stark meditations on climate change. Adults suit up in furry capes for the bar de hielo (AR$140 i
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EcoCentro
Celebrating the area’s unique marine ecosystem, this masterpiece brings an artistic sensitivity to extensive scientific research. There are exhibits on the breeding habits of right whales, dolphin sounds and southern elephant-seal harems, a touch-friendly tide pool and more. The bu
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Plaza de Mayo
Planted between the Casa Rosada, the Cabildo and the city’s main cathedral, grassy Plaza de Mayo is BA’s ground zero for the city’s most vehement protests. In the plaza’s center is the Pirámide de Mayo , a white obelisk built to mark the first anniversary of BA’s independence from
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Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
This is Argentina’s most important national arts museum and contains many key works by Benito Quinquela Martín, Xul Solar, Edwardo Sívori and other Argentine artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. There are also impressive international works by European masters such as Cézanne, D
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Pajcha – Museo de Arte Étnico Americano
This eye-opening private museum is a must-see if you’re interested in indigenous art and culture. Juxtaposing archaeological finds with contemporary and recent artisanal work from all over Latin America in a series of sumptuously realized displays, it takes an encouragingly broad v
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Museo Marítimo & Museo del Presidio
Convicts were transferred from Isla de los Estados (Staten Island) to Ushuaia in 1906 to build this national prison, finished in 1920. The cells, designed for 380 inmates, held up to 800 before closing in 1947. Famous prisoners include illustrious author Ricardo Rojasand and Russia
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Centro Cultural del Bicentenario
This excellent cultural center is an airy, modern space housing three museums, all imaginatively displayed; the highlight is the anthropological collection , with a stunning array of indigenous ceramics, jewelry and flutes. Fossils of mastodons and glyptodonts, extinct creatures th
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Los Seismiles
West of Fiambalá, the paved road winds its way up into some serious mountains, topping out at the Chilean border. Its a stunning drive, with no services apart from a white-elephant hotel halfway between Fiambalá and the frontier. Los Seismiles are the peaks above 6000m, and youll s
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Museo del Cablecarril
This old cable-car station documents the extraordinary engineering and mining project that created modern Chilecito at the beginning of the 20th century. The simple, picturesque museum preserves photos, tools and documents, as well as communications equipment, including an early ce
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Parque Nacional Los Cardones
Flanking the winding RP 33 from Salta to Cachi across the Cuesta del Obispo, this takes its name from the cardón (candelabra cactus), the park’s most striking plant species. The most picturesque part is the Valle Encantado, accessed via a 4km track (driveable) at Km61. A few furthe
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Cemeterio de la Recoleta
This cemetery is arguably BA’s number-one attraction, and a must on every tourist’s list. You can wander for hours in this amazing city of the dead, where countless ‘streets’ are lined with impressive statues and marble mausoleums. Peek into the crypts and check out the dusty coffi
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Garganta del Diablo
An 1.1km walkway across the placid Río Iguazú leads to one of the planet’s most spectacular sights, the Devil’s Throat. The lookout platform is perched right over this amazingly powerful, concentrated torrent of water, a deafening cascade plunging to an invisible destination; vapor
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Parque Nacional Iguazú
On the Argentine side of the marvelous falls, this park has loads to offer, and involves a fair amount of walking. The spread-out entrance complex ends at a train station, with departures every half-hour to the Cataratas train station, where the waterfall walks begin, and to the Ga
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Puerto Mar del Plata
Mar del Plata is one of Argentina’s most important fishing centers. Its port area, 8km south of the city center, is worth a visit, though public access to the jetty – and its graveyard of ruined ships, half-sunken and rusting in the sun – is now restricted. You can still watch the
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El Shincal
Seven kilometers west of Londres are the Inca ruins of El Shincal. Founded in 1471, the town occupied a commanding position in the foothills of the mountains, surveying the vast valley to the south. The setting is spectacular, with fantastic views and great atmosphere. The renovate
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Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio
Showcasing the most important fossil finds in Patagonia, this natural-history museum offers outstanding life-sized dinosaur exhibits and more than 1700 fossil remains of plant and marine life. Nature sounds and a video accent the informative plaques, and tours are available in a nu
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Centro Cultural Kirchner
Néstor Kirchner just had to leave a physical legacy, and this breathtaking cultural center is possibly his best. It’s located in Buenos Aires’ ex-main post office, a massive beaux-arts structure eight stories tall and filling an entire city block. Dozens of rooms hold art galleries
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Museo de Arqueología de Alta Montaña
One of northern Argentinas premier museums, this has a serious and informative exhibition focusing on Inca culture and, in particular, the child sacrifices left on some of the Andes’ most imposing peaks.The centerpiece is the mummified body of one of three children (rotated every s
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Quilmes
Dating from about AD 1000, Quilmes was a complex indigenous urban settlement that occupied about 30 hectares and housed as many as 5000 people. The inhabitants survived contact with the Inca, which occurred from about AD 1480 onward, but could not outlast the siege of the Spaniards
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San Ignacio Miní
These mission ruins are the most complete of those in Argentina and impress for the quantity of carved ornamentation still visible and for the amount of restoration done. No roofs remain, but many of the living quarters and workshops have been reerected. First founded in 1610 in Br
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