The cosmopolitan Buenos Aires has its circuit luxury, ranging from highly distinguished places to stay to boutiques to buy quality products from local and international brands. The first alternative to high-end shopping is touring the Avenida Alvear, the best place to find luxury products in Buenos Aires. Located in the posh neighborhood of Recoleta, there are famous brands like Valentino, Cartier, Versace and Tiffany & Co. also shopping as Patio Bullrich and Galerias Pacifico are ideal for purchases of products from leading brands. The best antiques can be found in San Telmo or Flea Market located in Palermo. Now if what you want is to buy fashion and design objects must travel the Palermo Soho.
As for where, in addition to the wide range of luxury hotels mostly located in areas of Puerto Madero, Retiro and Recoleta sleep, increasingly gaining ground departments with amenities that can be rented per night and provide more privacy to visitors without losing the glamor.
To eat, the best and finest restaurants are located in Las Cañitas, Puerto Madero, Recoleta and Palermo. Also a must is to go see an opera in the majestic Teatro Colón, a scenario that combines the charm and luxury of its building with the best operas. Another must is part of one of the tango shows offered on select tanguerías of San Telmo.

Alvear Avenue

The, perhaps the most elegant of the city, Avenida Alvear was traced in 1885 at the initiative of Mayor Torcuato de Alvear. Although originally called Bella Vista, was later named in homage to the father of the official, Carlos María de Alvear, a man of outstanding performance in the dawn of Argentina. The avenue is born in the square Carlos Pellegrini and ends at the monument to Torcuato de Alvear. This work of John Lauer, opened in 1900, consists of a marble column Doric, surmounted by a winged figure representing the Gloria. In the middle, on the shaft, the bust of the first mayor of Buenos Aires and is found at the base three bas-reliefs depicting the central facts of his performance as a precursor of urban development of the city.
A series of aristocratic residences are built on Avenida Alvear: the Pereda Palace (now the residence of the Ambassador of Brazil), the Palace Ortiz Basualdo (which houses the French Embassy), the mansion of Concepción Unzué de Casares (Jockey Club) the Palace Álzaga Unzué (Four Seasons Hotel) and residence Duhau (Park Hyatt Hotel). These buildings reflect the influence of French academicism and give the avenue a Parisian air.
At the corner of Avenida Alvear and Ayacucho sophisticated Alvear Palace Hotel, built in 1928 by architects Valentine Brodsky and Estanislao Pirovano, and engineers Escudero and Ortúzar, documentation brought from Paris stands. The hotel has 280 rooms decorated in different styles, the Roof Garden (a luxurious lounge on the top floor) and spacious terraces from which the Río de la Plata currency. Throughout his nearly eight decades of history, the Alvear host to emperors, kings, presidents and world renowned artists.
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Galerías Pacífico

The building that houses the Galerias Pacifico, one of the main shopping centers of the city, is worth visiting for its beautiful facilities and mainly for its magnificent dome, decorated with murals by renowned Argentine painters: Antonio Berni, Lino Enea Spilimbergo Demetrius Urruchúa and Juan Carlos Castagnino.
Located in the suburb of San Nicolas, in the center (Avenida Córdoba and Florida), was built by architects Emilio Agrelo and Raul Le Levacher in 1889 to host the shops Au Bon Marché (at the same time beginning to arise other department stores like Harrod’s and Gath & Chaves). However, it never came to be used for its original purpose and, shortly after his failed inauguration, was sold to Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway, which finally gave it its current name (between 1896 and 1940 it housed the facilities delMuseo National Fine Arts and then, in 1944, was amended by Aslan and Ezcurra architects).
After several years in a state of neglect, the building was restored in 1990 to become the original draft mall. Reopened two years later, today is one of the busiest shopping centers in the city.
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