Neighborhoods In Buenos Aires

Discover the best neighborhoods in Buenos Aires with curated recommendations from our editors.

Almagro

Almagro lies southwest of Recoleta but feels like a different world. Traditionally a gritty, working-class neighborhood, it spawned many tango greats, including the legendary Carlos...

  • 2 Restaurants
  • 1 Hotels
  • 11 Things To Do

Belgrano

Once rural villages far removed from urban life, Belgrano and neighboring Núñez now mark the transition from the city proper to the sprawling northern suburbs...

  • 9 Restaurants
  • 0 Hotels
  • 2 Things To Do

Centro

The historic heart of Buenos Aires, El Centro is still the focus of contemporary civic and commercial life. Plaza de Mayo is the original main...

  • 24 Restaurants
  • 18 Hotels
  • 46 Things To Do

Costanera Norte

It’s said that Buenos Aires was built with its back to the Río de la Plata, but the exception is the riverside strip of Costanera...

  • 0 Restaurants
  • 0 Hotels
  • 7 Things To Do

La Boca

Although La Boca is more touristy, it shares much of San Telmo's gritty history. La Boca sits on the fiercely polluted—and thus fiercely smelly—Riachuelo River...

  • 3 Restaurants
  • 0 Hotels
  • 4 Things To Do

Las Cañitas

Not quite as cool as Palermo but much less staid than Belgrano, Las Cañitas sits between the two both geographically and conceptually. In the late...

  • 2 Restaurants
  • 0 Hotels
  • 0 Things To Do

Palermo

Trendy shops, bold restaurants, elegant embassies, acres of parks—Palermo really does have it all. Whether your idea of sightseeing is ticking off museums, flicking through...

  • 48 Restaurants
  • 22 Hotels
  • 131 Things To Do

Puerto Madero

A forest of skyscrapers designed by big-name architects like Sir Norman Foster and César Pelli is sprouting up in Puerto Madero, a onetime port area...

  • 4 Restaurants
  • 6 Hotels
  • 7 Things To Do

Recoleta

Recoleta wasn't always synonymous with elegance. Colonists, including city founder Juan de Garay, farmed here. So did the Franciscan Recoleto friars, whose 1700s settlement here...

  • 23 Restaurants
  • 12 Hotels
  • 48 Things To Do

San Telmo

San Telmo, Buenos Aires' first suburb, was originally inhabited by sailors, and takes its name from their wandering patron saint. All the same, the mariners'...

  • 10 Restaurants
  • 6 Hotels
  • 69 Things To Do

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