museum
MALBA
Buenos Aires' leading contemporary art museum, showcasing the finest Latin American art from the 20th century onward.
23 km · about 25 min drive
Buenos Aires, Argentina · South America
Tigre works well as a base: 10 minutes from General Pacheco, 25km from El Ateneo Grand Splendid.
Tigre is in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with about 31,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is General Pacheco, about 7 km away.
Tigre is one of the 135 partidos of the Buenos Aires province in Argentina. It is located in the northern area of the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan region. This district encompasses a significant portion of the Paraná Delta and its low-lying islands, as well as a continental zone containing its administrativeRead more
head, the city of Tigre, along with other localities such as Don Torcuato, General Pacheco, Benavídez, El Talar, Rincón de Milberg, and Nordelta.
The partido is bounded to the north by the Paraná de las Palmas River, which separates it from the San Fernando Partido; to the northeast by the Río de la Plata; to the southeast by San Fernando Partido and San Isidro Partido; to the south by San Martín Partido; to the southwest by San Miguel Partido and Malvinas Argentinas Partido; and to the west by Escobar Partido.
Its total area, including the islands, is 368 km2 (142 sq mi). As of the 2022 Census, the district had a population of 446,949 inhabitants.
Famous Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges described the area with the words: "no other city do I know that adjoins a secret group of green islands, which get lost at unknown waters of such a slow river that literature called it frozen..."
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Within an hour or so of Tigre: MALBA (23 km), Don Julio (23 km), Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires (25 km), El Ateneo Grand Splendid (25 km).
Tigre is in Buenos Aires, Argentina, about 7 km from General Pacheco.
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museum
Buenos Aires' leading contemporary art museum, showcasing the finest Latin American art from the 20th century onward.
23 km · about 25 min drive
restaurant
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.
23 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
An ornate city of the dead with elaborate mausoleums housing Argentina's elite, including Eva Perón, in a labyrinth of marble and statuary.
25 km · about 30 min drive
photogenic
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.
25 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
Iconic 67-metre obelisk in the centre of the Plaza de la República, marking the heart of Buenos Aires.
27 km · about 30 min drive
cafe
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.
27 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
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.
27 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
Buenos Aires' oldest neighborhood with a famous Sunday antique market, milonga dance halls, and colonial architecture.
29 km · about 35 min drive
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