Avenida de Mayo (May Avenue)

One of Buenos Aires' most beautiful streets. It links the Pink House with the Congress. Ideal for walking through during day and/or night. This avenue is an exclusive area of the Spanish community and testimony of Buenos Aires of the beginning of the 20th. Century. It also gathered the most important hotels of that time, many cafes, among them the Tortoni (Art Nouveau) where the most important Porteño artists got together; and theaters like the "Avenida". Subway Line A exit Estacion Peru.

Plaza de Mayo (May Square)

Located between Rivadavia and Hipolito Yrigoyen Avs. and Bolivar and Balcarce Streets. The first place to visit. Located in downtown, this is the city's most historical place. Argentina's most important events happened here. May Revolution of 1810, the Constitution of 1860, the massive Peronist concentration of 1945, the events of December 2001 ...

Every Thursday the Mothers of May Square gather here to claim for their missing children. In front of the Square we see the Casa Rosada (seat of the National Government), the City Hall and the House of Culture, the Cabildo and the Cathedral. Warning: watch out with the pigeons of the Square ... They can leave you a "present". You can buy corn or bread to feed them. Subway Line A exit at Estacion Plaza de Mayo.

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.