Puerto Madero - From port failure to tourism success
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Puerto Madero - From port failure to tourism success

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Duration
2:15 hours
Vive Buenos Aires
Vive Buenos Aires
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.

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Description

Puerto Madero: From port failure to tourism success

On this tour we will explore the newest and at the same time one of the oldest neighborhoods in the City of Buenos Aires: Puerto Madero

We'll begin our tour at the Juana Azurduy monument, enjoying a unique view of the historic center to our right and a broad panorama of Puerto Madero to our left. This setting allows us to understand and put the Puerto Madero neighborhood into context.

We'll discuss the curious story of how a failed port transformed itself into a thriving tourist destination and a cutting-edge neighborhood over the decades.

From the original plan's desire to demonstrate power and money, its subsequent abandonment, and its rediscovery in the 1990s, the neighborhood now home to the city's best restaurants.

We'll take a scenic walk through the picturesque canals of Puerto Madero, the iconic warships ARA Sarmiento and ARA Uruguay and their stories, and the Women's Bridge, a symbol of the neighborhood.

We'll explore the residential areas of Puerto Madero, along with historic structures from the old port, now converted into museums and art galleries. We'll also explore the neighborhood's relationship with the city center and have the opportunity to appreciate the impressive views of the historic center from Puerto Madero.


And we'll talk about the development of the avant-garde architecture that they brought to the neighborhood.

A failure transformed into a success.

On this tour we will see:

- Former Central Post Office Building
- Monument to Juana Azurduy
- Pink House
- Libertador General San Martín Building
- President Sarmiento Frigate Museum Ship
- Women's Bridge
- Silos of Puerto Madero
- Argentine Women's Park
- Alvear Tower
- Argentine Customs