Private Guided Tours of Buenos Aires with Maria!

Discover the specifics of urban art in Buenos Aires and its socio political influences while you enjoy local life beyond the strictly touristic areas of La Boca. These neighborhood is steeped in art and history, and home to some of the most huge and spectacular murals in the city as well as a recent urban art district and place of festivals and artistic projects. "La Usina del Arte", La Boca art district and Caminito Street are the stars.

This walk combines the historical framework that has shaped the different facets of the graffiti and urban art movement of Buenos Aires with large scale projects far off the beaten path and takes and in-depth look at the effects of politics, economics and social change on Buenos Aires street art and activism.

We will end the tour at Caminito, where you can stay for souvenir and soccer outfit shopping, or to visit the wonderful museums and places of interest such as Fundación Proa, Quinquela Martin Fine Art Museum, Museo de la Pasión Boquense or Colón Fábrica, or just sit for people watching while you enjoy a good cold beer with a “choripán” (typical sausage sandwich), a must to approach Argentine popular gastronomic culture.

Highlights:

• Parque Lezama
• Usina del Arte cultural center
• Murals by worldwide known Street artists
• Bombonera (Boca Juniors Stadium)
• Caminito

During this tour we will walk from Recoleta to Palermo Woods, and make some stops at the following points of interest: Recoleta neighborhood: well known for its French architecture, its beautiful museums, its wide green areas and, most of all, its worldwide famous graveyard: Recoleta cemetery; place of the last rest of Evita Perón, among other iconic people, this cemetery (third in importance in the world) is also considered a piece of art itself.

We will continue walking towards Palermo to appreciate the Floralis Generica, an outstanding sculpture gifted to the city by the Argentinian architect Eduardo Catalano in United Nation Square; walk by Palermo Chico: also referred to as Barrio Parque, designed by the French-Argentine landscape architect Charles Thays, characterized by its grand mansions and Tudor-style homes complete with private gardens, today home of Embassies, local television and sporting celebrities.

We will end the tour at the outstanding National Library, a landmark piece of brutalist architecture, built after the demolition of the residence of Juan Perón and Eva Duarte by the militars. On the outside gardens there is a trendy gin and tonic bar made with different types of gin and an artisan tonic where you could stay for a refreshing drink.

Highlights:

• Alvear Avenue
• Café La Biela
• Recoleta Rubber Tree (the oldest tree in the city)
• Recoleta Cemetry
• Florális Genérica and Law School
• Barrio Parque (also called Palermo Chico)
• National Library

Experience a ride through the Northern districts of the city, in a fun and insightful way. On your bike, you will be able to see wonderful landscapes of the city and make some few stops for historical references, guided by professionals. Palermo and Recoleta, are both residential best-of-cool districts, famous for its French-style majestic buildings, large wonderful parks, exclusive thoroughfares, aristocratic bars, exquisite restaurants and first- rate shops.

Starting in San Martín Square, we will ride North to Floralis Generica, an outstanding sculpture gifted to the city by the Argentinian architect Eduardo Catalano in United Nation Square, in the start of Palermo Chico. This Neighborhood, also referred to as Barrio Parque, designed by the French-Argentine landscape architect Charles Thays, is characterized by its grand mansions and Tudor-style homes complete with private gardens, today home of Embassies, local television and sporting celebrities.

We will keep on riding towards the Rose Garden, a beautiful park with more than eight thousand roses surrounded by an artificial lake, the Patio Andaluz, a Greek bridge and the beautiful garden of Poets, with sculptures of famous worldwide writers. On our way we will be able to see some wonderful spots such as the Japanese Garden, Horse race track and Polo Field, National Library, Fine Arts Museum, Planetarium Galileo Galilei and Eco-Park (former zoo).

Highlights:

• San Martin Monument
• Malvinas Soldier Memorial and English Tower
• Floralis Genérica and Law School
• Barrio Parque (also called Palermo Chico)
• Rose Garden (closed on Mondays)
• Monument to the Carta Magna and Four Regions of Argentina

Please note: this is a combined walking and driving tour - in addition to your guide, a driver will be at your disposal for the duration of the tour.

This tour will give you some clues about the genocide that devastated the country during the 1970s, taking the lives of close to 30,000 people. The historical importance and the legacy of Eva Duarte, “Evita”, are unquestionable. But nothing is above debate for Argentineans. Her leadership continues to generate controversy till today. This is why we intend to face the mighty task of touring the city of Buenos Aires to explore the lights and the shadows of her life through those iconic places where her memory is kept alive.

We will start in the mythical Plaza de Mayo, the stage for some of Perón and Evita’s more memorable speeches. We will continue to the see the Ministry of Public Works, a massive tower that looms over the 9 de Julio Avenue, to appreciate the “Mural de Evita”, a giant mural with Evita´s portrait which occupies both the Southern and Northern side of this building.

We will drive then through the lavish district of Recoleta, home of Perón’s main enemies (“the oligarchy”, as he called them), to visit Evita’s tomb in the Recoleta cemetery. We will pass by the National Library, (built there after Peron and Evita´s residence was demolished) to catch a glimpse of Evita´s Monument. We wil end at Museo Evita, a former halfway house to underprivileged single mothers during the Peronist administrations.

Highlights:

• Plaza de Mayo
• Mural de Evita Evita´s tomb at Recoleta Cemetry

• National Library
• Eva Perón Museum

Please note: this is a combined walking and driving tour - in addition to your guide, a driver will be at your disposal for the duration of the tour.

This tour will give you some clues about the genocide that devastated the country during the 1970s, taking the lives of close to 30,000 people.

To get on topic, we will stop by some of its most significant landmarks such as Plaza de Mayo (May Square), political hub of the country, and the place where many people first heard of the atrocities of the military government through the peaceful demonstrations of the mothers of the desaparecidos, soon after called Madres de Plaza de Mayo (Mothers of May Square); ESMA, the biggest and most feared detention center transformed into the Museum of Memory, a space that invites to ponder on State terrorism and the struggle for democracy.

These sites will help us too unravel some of the causes that led to the dictatorship and the silent genocide of political dissidents. We will finish the tour walking through the “Parque de la Memoria”, an extensive green space of 14 hectares by the Río de la Plata river, where art and nature merge to become a place of remembrance, homage, testimony and reflection.

Highlights:

• Plaza de Mayo
• ESMA Museum and Site of Memory
• Parque de la Memoria