Bariloche & the Lake District
Several chairlifts and the Aerosilla Cerro Bellavista carry passengers up to 2000m on Cerro Catedral, where there's a restaurant/confitería offering…
Must-see attractions in Argentina
Mendoza & the Central Andes
Lying within its namesake fauna reserve about 60km southeast of Malargüe, Laguna Llancancelo is a high mountain lake visited by more than 100 bird species…
Buenos Aires
The Farmacia de la Estrella (1835) is a functioning homeopathic pharmacy with gorgeous woodwork and elaborate late-19th-century ceiling murals depicting…
Tigre & the Delta
Near to Puerto de Frutos is Tigre’s amusement park with some fun attractions including roller-coaster rides and waterslides. Opening hours vary between…
Along the Río Paraná
The vast Casa de Gobierno (Government House) was built in 1909 and replaced the demolished cabildo (town council building), seat of the 1852…
Catamarca & La Rioja
Upstairs at the end of a shopping arcade, this museum has a terrific collection of ceramics representing different eras of settlement in the region.
Catamarca & La Rioja
This 'Triassic' path takes you past life-size replicas of dinosaurs whose fossilized remains have been found in the Talampaya area.
Mar del Plata
For the adventurous, there’s Playa Escondida, some 25km south of Mardel, which claims to be Argentina’s only legal nude beach.
Catamarca & La Rioja
This cooperative is a good place to watch weavers at work, and buy their goods. Follow Belgrano past the Hotel Belén to find it.
Cafayate
A slick operation in Cafayate's center, where you can taste all seven of its wines in a room that feels like an upscale lounge.
Museo Histórico Regional Gales
Coastal Patagonia
The old train station houses this fine small museum holding the belongings and photographs of Gaiman pioneers.
The Pampas & the Atlantic Coast
This small museum houses an interesting collection of 15 horse-drawn carriages from the early 20th century.
The Pampas & the Atlantic Coast
The Museo El Caserío is where the French painter Tristán Lacroix lived and worked in 1911.
Coastal Patagonia
A pretty plaza, with quiet benches in the shade of poplars and purple-blossom jacarandas.
Monumento Natural Bosques Petrificados
Coastal Patagonia
During Jurassic times, 150 million years ago, this area enjoyed a humid, temperate climate with flourishing forests, but intense volcanic activity buried…
Córdoba
Built at the beginning of the 18th century by the Jesuits, the Cripta Jesuítica was originally designed as a novitiate and later converted to a crypt and…
Museo Tradicionalista Fuerte Independencia
The Pampas & the Atlantic Coast
This historical museum, worth a walk-through for context, exhibits a large and varied collection on Tandil’s history. Photographs commemorate major events…
Museo Marítimo & Museo del Presidio
Ushuaia
Convicts were transferred from Isla de los Estados to Ushuaia in 1906 to build this national prison, finished in 1920. The depressing cells, designed for…
Rosario
In summer this strip beginning 5km north of downtown attracts crowds for its beaches. The mediocre public beach of Rambla Catalunya is backed by a…
Buenos Aires
This tiny museum traces Argentine theater from its colonial beginnings, stressing the 19th-century contributions of the Podestá family – Italian…
Iglesia, Convento y Basílica de San Francisco
Mendoza
Many mendocinos (people from Mendoza) consider the image at this church of the Virgin of Cuyo, patron of San Martín’s Ejército de los Andes, miraculous…
Museo Histórico y Numismático Héctor Carlos Janson
Buenos Aires
Housed in the former Buenos Aires Stock Exchange (1862), this interesting little museum tells the story of Argentina through its money. Starting with…
Buenos Aires
This museum is located in the colonial house where Bartolomé Mitre – Argentina’s first legitimate president elected under the constitution of 1853 –…
Córdoba
The Colegio Nacional de Monserrat dates from 1782, though the college itself was founded in 1687 and transferred first to the Franciscan order and then to…
Buenos Aires
This maze-like museum, in the basement of Palacio Paz, exhibits a frighteningly large collection of over 3500 bazookas, grenade launchers, cannons,…
Mar del Plata
Grand and castle-like, positioned on a cliff over the ocean, Torreón del Monje is hard to miss – look for the red domes and the stone footbridge…
Buenos Aires
This quirky and extensive police museum displays a whole slew of uniforms and medals, along with ‘illegal activities’ exhibits (cockfighting and gambling)…
Rosario
Opposite the racetrack in a tin-roofed bungalow, one of Rosario's loveliest buildings, this enthusiastically run museum in Parque Independencia has good…
Rosario
Rosario's best beach is Balneario La Florida, with services and a safe bathing area. Picturesque stalls behind it sell river fish. The summer-only 'Linea…
The Pampas & the Atlantic Coast
Within the Paseo del Bosque parkland is the former zoo, which is in the process of being transformed into a 'bioparque' housing only animals native to…
Inland Patagonia
Fallen giants are scattered in a pale sandstone landscape at this petrified forest, 30km southeast of Sarmiento off RN 26. From the visitor center, a…
Buenos Aires
Located in the Paseo La Plaza complex, this museum claims to be the only Beatles museum in South America. It showcases the Beatles memorabilia of owner…
Bariloche
This small museum is a good introduction to the region, from its volcanic origins and archaeological sites to a wealth of taxidermied wildlife, the life…
Buenos Aires
Located at the at the northeastern end of Plaza Lavalle, Argentina’s oldest and largest synagogue can be identified by the Jewish symbols that adorn the…
Salta & the Andean Northwest
One of Tucumán's many magnificent structures, this neoclassic beauty has a Parisian quality, and you won't miss it as it's right on Plaza Independencia…
Salta
Set on the plaza in the lovely cabildo (town hall), this collection ranges from pre-Columbian ceramics through to colonial-era religious art (admire the…
Parroquia Sagrado Corazón de Jesús de los Capuchinos
Córdoba
It's worth stopping by to check out this marvelous neo-Gothic church built between 1928 and 1934 – its glaring oddity is its missing steeple (omitted on…
Buenos Aires
Towering above the Casa Rosada, just south of Parque Colón on Av Colón, is the army headquarters at the Edificio Libertador, the real locus of Argentine…
Reserva Provincial Cabo Vírgenes
Coastal Patagonia
Magellanic penguins nest September through March at Argentina's second-largest penguin rookery in this provincial reserve. There's also a lighthouse and…
The Pampas & the Atlantic Coast
On the edge of the laguna, La Malvina – the elegant original estancia of Santa Rosa's founder – has been restored and reopened to the public. Now a…
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