Buenos Aires Travel Guide

Travel guide to Buenos Aires, Argentina with comprehensive information about events, shopping, and major Buenos Aires sporting events to help you enjoy your visit more.

Buenos Aires Overview

Argentina's capital city is one of the most glamorous cities in South America. Buenos Aires is a vast and exciting place to visit, a city that has clung to its Spanish roots, yet exists with flair that Madrid or Barcelona would struggle to emulate.

Lying at the mouth of the famous River Plate facing the open expanse of the Atlantic Ocean, Buenos Aires is a true world city, home to more than 10 million people, birthplace of Maradona, Eva Peron, and the tango. Its unique mixture of urban sprawl and elegance, of poverty and wealth, means that it is a city like no other.

If Dubai is a city of contrasts, Buenos Aires is a city of contradictions, a place of optimism and light that can sometimes be the most depressing place on earth, and a place that oozes culture and revels in wealth, while at the same time has a dirty halo of shanty towns spread around it.

Welcome to Buenos Aires, a symbol of South America.

Top Buenos Aires Attractions

For many people, the most intense experience of Buenos Aires is the Tango. This passionate dance originated in the sultry nightclubs of the city more than a hundred years ago, and has developed an entire culture and mythos. The Tango clubs of Buenos Aires are fast being replaced by more modern nightclubs and bars, but the passion invoked by this intimate dance still attract competitors from all over the world.

Aside from dancing, other attractions of Buenos Aires include museums and galleries, as well as many stunning buildings from the Spanish Era. Close to the city there are some stunning beaches, and a ferry ride across the estuary of the River Plate will take you to the laid back capital of Uruguay - Montevideo.

Shopping in Buenos Aires

Despite their country's recent economic problems, the residents of Buenos Aires still love to look good, and as a result of this, the city is still a great place to go shopping for clothes.

Inspired by the latest European fashions, but sold at rock bottom prices, clothes are great value in the city, and whether you buy in a boutique or a marketplace, you can always find bargains that will make you feel good.

Buenos Aires Sporting Events

Forget Celtic Vs Rangers, or Everton against Liverpool, The rivalry between Boca Juniors and River Plate, the two most popular football teams in Buenos Aires is perhaps the fiercest in world football and makes the all other contests look like a playground scrap.

With support between the sides divided on racial, geographic, religious, and even economic grounds, and rivalry whipped up by the various sections of the Argentine media, Buenos Aires derby matches are the stuff of legend.

There is no love lost between fans of the two sides, and their games are frequently marred by extreme violence, although if you have the nerve, and are able to get a ticket, the atmosphere is incredible - especially if your team win.