Buenos Aires City Tours
To visit Buenos Aires is to go on a guided city tour and get to know some of the secrets of this enigmatic metropolis, after the breakfast in the Hotel You will start with the city tours, San Martín Square is the first stop. Among its green hillocks, there is a monument in memory to the fallen soldiers of Malvinas War in 1982. Opposite it, Florida pedestrian street starts- an attractive walk to go shopping and along which thousands of persons working downtown Buenos Aires; The transfer goes to retiro neighbourhood. During the trip, you can observe the mirror towers called Torres Catalinas Norte, Kavanagh Building and Sheraton Hotel.
In retiro, you will find the Railway Communication Center with Mitre, San Martín and Belgrano railway lines. To the right, you will see Monumental Tower , previously called "Torre de los Ingleses", which has a big clock similar to the Big Ben and which was a present of the British Government. Along Libertador Avenue, there are many public buildings which are very important and have notable architectural ornaments such as the seed of the National Government- Casa Rosada (Pink House), the School of Law and the School of Social Sciences with neoclasic style.
In Carlos Thays Square, you can observe figures by Bottero, the Palais de Glace and, at the back, you will see the Municipal Center of Exhibitions where world wide known fairs are held.
Next, there is a giant flower called "Floral Genérica". This is a particular sculpture which weighs eighteen tons and is twenty meters long, having forty meters of diameter. It opens in the morning and closes in the evenings; continue to Palermo neighborhood, you will pass by Portugal and Greece Embassies which have clear Renaissance cuts, ahead you will see the Museum of Art, Science and Technology which has important works of art by Antonio Verdi and Frida Kahlo, Then, you will see the Japanese Garden, where there are beautiful orchids and artifitial lakes full of colorful fish. There, you will also enjoy its picturesque Tea House which makes the place the cultural center of this community in Argentina, arriving to Palermo, you will see the work of architect Carlos Thays who designed the area of parks popularly known as "Los Bosques de Palermo" (Palermo’s Forest). Here there is a lake called "Lago de los Suspiros" (Lake of Sighs). It is a beautiful artifitial lake surrounded by ancient trees and an elegant rosebush garden with suspension bridges, In the surroundings you will see the Planetarium called Galileo galilei which was created in 1967. On the corner of Libertador Avenue and Dorrego Street, you will observe the Argentinean Racetrack, being evidence of the architectural style of the belle époque where, appart from horse races, important social events take place, Across the railway track, you will see Islamic Cultural Center called King Fahd with its imposing mosque with room for a thousand and six hundred faithful persons, Then you will start going back along the same Avenue to pass by the Zoo of the city. From the trellis you can see the cages with allegorical decorativ motives indicating the country of origin of the animals. Thus, you can observe the Asian Palace for elephants, the Byzantine ruins for flamingoes and the Medievalfortress for tigers.