Buenos Aires works well as a base: 10 minutes from Barracas, 2km from El Ateneo Grand Splendid.
Buenos Aires is in Buenos Aires F.D., Argentina, with about 2.9 million people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Barracas, about 4 km away.
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Within an hour or so of Buenos Aires: Cafe Tortoni (1 km), Palacio Barolo (1 km), El Ateneo Grand Splendid (2 km), La Boca (Caminito), Buenos Aires (3 km).
Where is Buenos Aires?
Buenos Aires is in Buenos Aires F.D., Argentina, about 4 km from Barracas.
Road trip
Drive to Buenos Aires
Add it as a stop and the planner works out the driving, the nights and what's worth seeing on the way.
Buenos Aires' oldest cafe, opened in 1858, with marble tables, stained glass and a basement tango room where Borges and Gardel were regulars. Expect a queue on Avenida de Mayo; order the chocolate con churros.
1 km · about 5 min drive
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Palacio Barolo
A 1923 tower built as an allegory of Dante's Divine Comedy: 22 floors for the poem's cantos, hell below, a working lighthouse for paradise at the top with views down Avenida de Mayo.
1 km · about 5 min drive
photogenic
El Ateneo Grand Splendid
A 1919 opera house converted into a bookshop, with the painted cupola, boxes and crimson stage curtain intact; the stage is now a cafe. Shelves fill the stalls under the original ceiling fresco.
2 km · about 5 min drive
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La Boca (Caminito), Buenos Aires
A colorful working-class neighborhood famous for its brightly painted corrugated-iron houses, tango dancers, and the passion of Boca Juniors football.
3 km · about 5 min drive
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Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
An ornate city of the dead with elaborate mausoleums housing Argentina's elite, including Eva Perón, in a labyrinth of marble and statuary.
3 km · about 5 min drive
museum
MALBA
Buenos Aires' leading contemporary art museum, showcasing the finest Latin American art from the 20th century onward.
5 km · about 10 min drive
restaurant
Don Julio
A Palermo parrilla where the walls are papered with bottles signed by diners and dry-aged beef is grilled over quebracho embers. Regularly named among the world's best restaurants; queues form before opening.
5 km · about 10 min drive
racetrack
Autódromo Oscar y Juan Gálvez
Permanent racing circuit in southern Buenos Aires opened in 1952, host of Argentine Grand Prix rounds and TC racing.