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Free tour

Free tour of Buenos Aires: Heart of the city

4.87
Excellent(585)
Duration: 3 hours
Languages: English and Spanish
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Registered on 24 August 2020
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Hi there! We’re a group of passionate Buenos Aires–based guides with over 30 years of combined experience leading free walking tours around the world. After years of showing travelers cities across different continents, we’ve come together to share the one we all call home — Buenos Aires — from our own unique perspectives. Our goal? To make the city’s stories come alive. To help you feel the history in its streets, its people, its sounds, and its contradictions. From politics to tango, from architecture to football, from literature to nightlife — Buenos Aires has it all. And we want to walk you through it, not just to explain the past, but to understand the pulse of today’s Argentina. This city is alive, unpredictable, and endlessly fascinating. Join us on a journey through its myths, revolutions, passions, and dreams — and see why Buenos Aires is anything but boring. Come walk with us. Let’s make sense of the chaos together.
Free reservation and cancellation
Pay-what-you-want tour, no set price, reservation and cancellation are free

Tour description

Everything you need to know about Buenos Aires in three hours.

On this tour we will explore the heart of the city and will talk and learn about the fascinating political history of the Argentinian capital.

From life before the colonial times, the struggle and war of independence, and the waves of immigrants that forever changed the face of the city and the country. The “barn of the world” and how one of the richest countries of the world in the wake of the 20th ended in one of the biggest economic crises of the planet a century later. The lights and shadows behind the myth of the “Europe of the Americas”.

Tango, football, literature, psychotherapy, politics, dictatorships, and resistance, the history of Argentina has all of the ingredients for a passionate drama. And that reflects onto its population.

“To me, Buenos Aires is eternal, like water or air“ (as the famed writer Jorge Luis Borges once said)

Why does the seemingly never-ending energy of the city keeps mystifying onlookers and energizing passer-by’s.

During the tour we will see: 

  • The palace of the parliament
  • The square of the congress 
  • Palacio Barolo
  • Avenida de Mayo 
  • 9 de Julio avenue
  • The obelisk 
  • Evita’s giant homage 
  • Calle Florida 
  • A mural for Messi
  • Metropolitan cathedral 
  • Casa rosada (the pink house) 
  • Plaza de Mayo (the pulsating heart of the city) 

Highlights

What will we see on this tour?

Meeting point:
Av. Hipólito Yrigoyen 1750, C1089 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
We meet at the entrance of the of the “Biblioteca del congreso de la nación” (library of the country’s congress). If you are coming in Uber you can use the address: Hipólito Yrigoyen 1750, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. I’m usually the only person just standing there so shouldn’t be hard to find me.
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Outside visit
Biblioteca del Congreso de la Nación
This is the meeting point
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Outside visit
Congreso de la Nación Argentina
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Outside visit
Congress Square
Tour map

How much does this tour cost?

Free tours do not have a set price, instead, each person gives the guru at the end the amount they consider appropriate (amounts usually range from €15 to $50 depending on satisfaction with the tour).

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Who is this tour for?

Accessibility
Suitable for people with reduced mobility.
Groups
Accepts bookings of up to 10 people.
Pets
Suitable for bringing pets.

What should I know?

Minimum attendees
Requires a minimum of 5 people to conduct the tour.
Additional costs
The tour does not require payment for entries or additional expenses.
Free cancellation
If you cannot attend the tour, please cancel the reservation, otherwise the guide will be waiting for you.
Payment methods
Electronic or card payment accepted.
Free tour of Buenos Aires: Heart of the city
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