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Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires
Sparkling inside its glass walls, this airy modern arts museum is one of BA’s fanciest. Millionaire and philanthropist Eduardo Costantini displays his fine collection of Latin American art, which includes work by Argentines Xul Solar and Antonio Berni, plus some pieces by Mexicans
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Basílica Nuestra Señora de Luján
Lujáns undisputed focal point is this imposing neo-Gothic basilica, built from 1887 to 1935 and made from a lovely rose-colored stone that glows in the setting sun. The venerated statue of the Virgin sits in the high chamber behind the main altar. Under the basilica you can tour a
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Monumento Nacional a La Bandera
Manuel Belgrano, who designed the Argentine flag, rests in a crypt beneath this colossal stone obelisk built where the blue-and-white stripes were first raised. If rampant nationalism isn’t your thing, it’s nevertheless worth taking the elevator to the top for great views over the
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Museo de Artesanías Tradicionales Folclóricas
This intriguing museum in a converted colonial house has small displays of fine traditional artesanía (handicrafts) plus a good shop, but the highlight is watching students being taught to work leather, silver, bone and wood by master craftspeople. Other rooms around the courtyard
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Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Emilio Caraffa
One of the city’s best contemporary art museums stands ostentatiously on the eastern side of Plaza España. Architect Juan Kronfuss designed the neoclassical building as a museum and it was inaugurated in 1916. Exhibits change monthly. South of the museum the city unfolds into its l
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Museo Taller Ferrowhite
Grandiose and ghostly, Ferrowhite is the kind of landmark you see from far away and think what in the world is that? The castle-like power plant, built by Italians in the 1930s, sits beside massive grain elevators on the edge of the bay. Now it holds a small museum and cafe. But ha
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Museo Gauchesco Ricardo Güiraldes
Recently reinaugurated after major restorations – the building, like many others in town, sustained serious flood damage in 2009 – this sprawling museum in Parque Criollo dates to 1938 and includes an old flour mill, a re-created pulpería (tavern), a colonial-style chapel and a 20t
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Serranía de Hornocal
Twenty-five kilometers east of Humahuaca, this jagged row of rock teeth offers utterly spectacular colors. Tours run here but its driveable in a normal car with care. Its prettiest from 4pm onward, when the western sun brings out vivid hues. Turn left straight after crossing the br
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Museo Arqueológico Adán Quiroga
This fine archaeological museum displays a superb collection of pre-Columbian ceramics from several different cultures and eras. Some pieces – particularly the black Aguada ceramics with their incised, stylized animal decoration – are of truly remarkable quality. Also present are a
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Catedral de la Plata
Construction began on La Platas spectacular neo-Gothic cathedral in 1885, but the church wasnt inaugurated until 1932, and tower construction was only completed in 1999. The cathedral was inspired by medieval predecessors in Cologne and Amiens, and has fine stained-glass windows an
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Feria Artesanal
There’s a nightly handicrafts fair from mid-December to mid-March. Expect lots of handmade jewelry, carved wood, paintings and souvenirs. The rest of the year it’s a weekend-only event.
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Costanera
Rosario’s most attractive feature is its waterfront, where what was once derelict warehouses and train tracks has been reclaimed for the fun of the people. It stretches some 15km from its southern end at Parque Urquiza to the city’s northern edge, just short of the suspension bridg
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Casa Curutchet
The famed French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier only built two structures in the Americas: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard, and Casa Curutchet. The strikingly modern house, commissioned by the Argentine surgeon Pedro Curutchet in 1948, is a prime example of Le Corbusi
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Paseo del Buen Pastor
This cultural center/performance space was built in 1901 as a combined chapel/monastery/women’s prison. In mid-2007 it was re-inaugurated to showcase work by Córdoba’s young and emerging artists. There are a couple of hip cafe-bars in the central patio area where you can kick back
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Ruta del Adobe
The road between Tinogasta and Fiambalá is designated the adobe route for its ensemble of fantastic historic buildings. These are built with thick walls of mud, straw and dung and have cane roofs supported by algarrobo beams. Buildings are signposted off the road and include former
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Plaza Dorrego
After Plaza de Mayo, Plaza Dorrego is the city’s oldest plaza. It dates to the 18th century and was originally a pit stop for caravans bringing supplies into BA from around Argentina. At the turn of the 19th century it became a public square surrounded by colonial buildings that su
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Paraná Delta
Rosario sits on the banks of the Río Paraná upper delta, a 60km-wide area of mostly uninhabited, subtropical islands and winding riachos (streams). It’s rich in bird and animal life, and even the closest islands feel miles from anywhere, though you can see the city’s buildings loom
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Torreón del Monje
Grand and castle-like, positioned on a cliff over the ocean, Torreón del Monje is hard to miss – look for the red domes and the stone footbridge straddling the oceanfront road. This classic landmark is a throwback to Mar del Platas glamorous heyday. The Argentine businessman Ernest
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Convento y Museo de San Francisco
Santa Fes principal historical landmark is this Franciscan monastery and museum, built in 1680. While the museum is mediocre, the church is beautiful, with an exquisite wooden ceiling. The lovely cloister has a real colonial feel and is full of birdsong and the perfume of flowers.
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Museo de Bellas Artes de La Boca Benito Quinquela Martín
Once the home and studio of surrealist painter Benito Quinquela Martín (1890–1977), this fine-arts museum exhibits his works and those of other classic Argentine artists. Martín used silhouettes of laboring men, smokestacks and water reflections as recurring themes, and painted wit
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