Remarkable buildings in Buenos Aires

Ex Harrods department store

Address: Florida 877 - RetiroThis building founded in 1914 was conceived, in its monumentality and features, as a replica of the famous Harrods store in London. It shared its time of splendour with Gath & Chaves, as symbols of the...

Paz Palace (Militar Circle now)

Address: Av. Santa Fe 750 - RetiroThis Palace originally belonged to one of the great Argentinean families, for which it keeps its last name: Paz Palace. Dr. José Camilo Paz was once the ambassador in Paris and, later, the founder...

San Martín Palace (Ceremonial venue pertaining to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Address: Arenales 761 - RetiroThis majestic Palace known as the San Martín Palace is today the Ceremonial venue pertaining to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship. Majestic in its form and style, this Palace is representative of the purest...

General Confederation of Labour (CGT)

Address: Azopardo 802 - San TelmoThe CGT (literally, the General Confederation of Labour) is a union organization that influenced the course of Argentinian history. Its origin dates back to 1930 as a result of the agreement between socialist and union...

San Alfonso Church and Petronila Rodríguez School

Address: Barzana 1515 - Parque ChasThe beginnings of the building of this church date back to 1932 and they are linked to the Jesuit fathers until 1939 when it was gifted to the Redentorist fathers. The founder of this beautiful...

Tunnels of the Block of the Lights

Address: Perú 294 -1ªpiso - MonserratThe set of buildings that makes up the “Manzana de las Luces” has a number of subterranean galleries that were built during the 18th century and that allowed for the connection among other neighboring buildings...

Miguel Cané Library

Address: Carlos Calvo 4319 - BoedoThis was the neighborhood’s first library and in its beginnings it was one of the most modern ones in the country since it had binding and a translation department. Currently it has 45,681 books. For...

National History Academy

Address: Balcarce 139 - MonserratThe National Academy of History occupies the building of Balcarce 139, on the site where the hero of Independence General Antonio González Balcarce was born and where the National Congress was raised between 1864 and 1905....

El Ateneo Bookstore

Address: Florida 336 - San Nicolás This is a representative building of the French academicism that signed the urban profile of Buenos Aires in the 20s, dragging a past filled with artistic and cultural history. It was inaugurated in 1927,...

Victoria Ocampo’s house

Address: Rufino de Elizalde 2831 - PalermoThis is among the city’s first modern buildings of clear rationalist tendency, by the architect Alejandro Bustillo. It was built in 1929 for Victoria Ocampo, one of the great figures regarding literature and among...