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 Florida st.,Plaza
de Mayo, Avenida De Mayo, Café Las violetas
Meeting point Corner of florida and maipu outside the Florida
Garden café or your hotel.
Public Transportation: Metro:
Finishing point: Cofiteria lLas Violetas
Time: 4 hours
Pricing:
usd 40 per person
Meeting Point: outside the Florida Garden coffee shop.at 9.00. at the
intersection of Florida and Paraguay or at your hotel
1. Centro Naval
This is one of the city's most exquisite buildings, a masterpiece of
cast stone architecture. A nude sea god in a Spanish galleon,
announcing triumph through a conch shell, oversees its corner doorway.
Naval themes continue along the upper balustrades. The building was
opened in 1914 and was designed by Swiss architect Jacques Dunant.
2. Galería Mitre
This is one of the most visually impressive and unusual buildings on
Calle Florida. It was designed in a robust Spanish colonial style,
imitating the Argentine missions along the Paraguayan border
4. Gath & Chaves
You'll notice the BANCO MERIDIEN sign under a glass-and-wrought-iron
doorway simulating old Parisian subway entrances. Look above and you
will still see the old name of this one-time British department store
on the corner tower
5. HSBC Building
This ornate Spanish Gothic building, one of my favorites, is faced
with travertine marble and the corner entrance is covered with heavy
bronze doors
6. Galería Guemes
The Calle Florida entrance of this turn-of-the-20th-century shopping
gallery is nothing special, and the most interesting thing is the sign
for Piazzolla Tango, held in the basement theater. However, step
through the threshold and you'll find one of the city's most exquisite
buildings. It was designed by Francesco Gianotti, an Italian architect
who also designed the now-closed Confitería del Molino.
7. Bank of Boston
This is another ornate Spanish colonial building, even more exquisite
than the HSBC bank, full of exquisite details on its facade and within
the interior. Much of the limestone and structural steel necessary to
make this building came from the United States. The 4-ton bronze doors
were made in England.
8.city hall building neoclasical style. Mostly closed to tourist but
guided tours are available.
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9 Plaza de mayo Visit the cathedral, the Pink house and the banking
area with its magnificent turn of the century buildings, like the
Banco de la Provinncia de Buenos Aires with its italian marbled
interiors
The tour continues along florida until it intersect Avenida de mayo.We
will walk down ave de mayo visit the Castelar Hotel, Barolo tower and
the 36 billares Cafe.After that we will take the oldest trolley in
Latin America –Line A-- all the way to our final stop at Confiteria
las violetas .an Art Nuveau cafe visited by celebrities, politicians
and tango icon Carlos Gardel back in the 1940.
Confiteria Las
violetas one of the many old cafes in Buenos Aires since 1884 |
Buenos Aires, the capital of
Argentina, is one of South America's biggest cities with 2.7
million inhabitants (13 million in the larger metropolitan area).
For a city of this size the metro network is still very small
although it's by far the oldest subway in South America.
The first line of the metro, Line A, was built and initially
operated by a private company called Anglo American Tramway
Company and opened already in 1913.
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