Remarkable buildings in Buenos Aires

Embassy of Belgium

Address: Rufino de Elizalde 2830 - PalermoLocated right opposite Victoria Ocampo’s residence, it stands on Belgium Square. It was built by Alejandro Bustillo in 1930 for the Tornquist family to live. The façade displays complete symmetry, and corresponds with French...

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...

Jorge Luis Borges House

Address: Jorge Luis Borges 2135 - PalermoThis is the exact location where the writer lived between the ages of two and fifteen (1901-1914). It also kept the famous Borges’s Library, which belonged to his father and is present all through...

Nuestra Señora del Pilar Basilica

Address: Junín 1904 - RecoletaLocated in the most privileged area of the city, this is one of the few colonial constructions that are still standing. It dates back to 1716, when the Spanish Governor ordered its construction for the Order...

Faculty of Law

Address: Av. Figueroa Alcorta 2263 - RecoletaThe School of Law and Social Sciences of Buenos Aires University was founded in 1821, and has had the current venue since 1949. It is an imposing Doric building with a classicist structure that...

TV Channel 7

Address: Av. Libertador y Tagle s/n - RecoletaThis building is a work by the architect Clorindo Testa, very significant and original in its structure. Nowadays, the channel is called like in its origin when it functioned in a different place;...

National Library

Address: Agüero 2502 - RecoletaIt was created in 1811, after the Revolution, by decision of the National Government. It had four venues in the historic core around the Cabildo and the “Manzana de las Luces” before standing where it does...

Orthodox Russian Church

Address: Brasil 315 - San TelmoIt was the first church of this kind built in South America. It is located in front of Parque Lezama, this Muscovite-style building from the 17th century was inaugurated in 1904 based on the original...

San Pedro Telmo Church

Address: Humberto I 340 - San TelmoThis church began to be built during the last part of 1734 with the Jesuit preacher and architect Andrés Blanqui. It still keeps the original colonial austere features in its interior but its façade...