Microcentro

Buenos Aires downtown, also known as Microcentro, is the busiest place in town. Financial, institutional, and commercial center of Buenos Aires, its main streets are the popular Corrientes Avenue, Florida pedestrian street, and the beautiful De Mayo Avenue. The epicenter of political demonstrations and social events in the history of Argentina is the Plaza de Mayo (May Square), where the Casa Rosada, the national government, stands. From its balcony the country's leaders have addressed the people, as Eva Peron did. And a few blocks further, we find Buenos Aires' most representative historical monument, the Obelisk.