The cosmopolitan Buenos Aires has luxury tours, including from highly distinguished places to stay to boutiques to buy quality products from local and international brands. The first choice for high-end shopping is touring the Avenida Alvear, the best place to find luxury goods in Buenos Aires. Located in the upmarket neighborhood of Recoleta, there are famous brands like Valentino, Cartier, Versace and Tiffany & Co. also malls like Galerias Pacifico and Patio Bullrich are ideal for purchases of products from leading brands. The best antiques can be found in San Telmo or the flea market located in Palermo. Now if what you want is to buy fashion design objects and 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 glamor.
To eat, the best and finest restaurants are located in Las Cañitas, Puerto Madero, Recoleta and Palermo. Also a must is to go to see an opera in the majestic Teatro Colon, a scenario that combines the charm and luxury of its building with the best operas. Another must is to participate in any of the tango shows are offered in select tango of San Telmo.
Meet all the activity of the city Cultural Agenda view programming and Teatro Colon.
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, he was then named in homage to the father of the official, Carlos Maria 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 Alvear Avenue: the Pereda Palace (now the residence of the Ambassador of Brazil), Ortiz Basualdo Palace (which houses the French Embassy), the mansion of Concepción Unzué de Casares (headquarters of the Jockey Club) , Alzaga Unzue Palace (Four Seasons Hotel) and the 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 and Estanislao Pirovano Valentin Brodsky, and engineers Escudero and Ortúzar, with documentation brought from Paris stands. The hotel has 280 rooms decorated in different styles, the Roof Garden (a luxury room on the top floor) and spacious terraces from which the Rio de la Plata currency. Throughout his nearly eight decades of history, the Alvear host to emperors, kings, presidents and world renowned artists.
PACIFICO GALLERIES
The building housing the Galerias Pacifico, one of the major trading centers of the city, is worth visiting for its beautiful installations and mainly for its magnificent dome, decorated with murals by prominent Argentine painters Antonio Berni, Lino Enea Spilimbergo Demetrio Urruchua and Juan Carlos Castagnino. Located in the suburb of San Nicolas, in the center (Avenida Cordoba and Florida), was built by the 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 of the National Museum Fine Arts and then, in 1944, was amended by the Aslan and Ezcurra architects). After several years in a state of neglect, the building was recovered in 1990 to turn it into the original draft mall. Reopened two years later, today is one of the busiest shopping centers in the city. In the angle that gives Viamonte and San Martin streets Centro Cultural Borges works. Meet the history of Retiro and find out all the activities of the commune in the Cultural Agenda.
PUERTO MADERO
The renovation of the old port began in 1989 with the State Reform Act and the creation of the Corporación Antiguo Puerto Madero. Main objective was to develop its 170 hectares and revalue the central area of the city.
The old docks were recycled goods, preserving their fronts exposed brick and cast iron beams to maintain its historical value. The renovation of these sheds, aligned at regular intervals against the ponds, gave elegance, prestige and identity to Puerto Madero, with its vaulted arcades form galleries. Today, house lofts and emblematic buildings with unique views, offices, restaurants, pubs, universities and various works of high architectural quality.
Port district of excellence, this harbor area became, after decades of inactivity, an international example of urban restructuring. The development of a new relationship between the city and the river, recycling its docks, the opening of new streets and boulevards, including parks and squares and, above all, the redefinition of public space, made this area one of the most picturesque of Buenos Aires.
RETIRO
Retirement is one of the most tourist districts, the Plaza San Martin and Florida Street shopping area. Currently, the Retiro is one of the most elegant of Buenos Aires. The spacious squares, stately homes, its luxury hotels and high office buildings form a mosaic where converging the present and the past of the city.
