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⭐ Highlights

3 Days in Buenos Aires — Essential Highlights

The world's finest steak at midnight, tango in a converted warehouse, Evita's tomb and Boca Juniors in La Bombonera

📍 Buenos Aires, Argentina 📅 3-day itinerary

Buenos Aires in 3 days: the Paris of the South, the city where midnight dinner is normal, the beef is unmatched and tango was invented in the brothels and conventillos of La Boca.

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San Telmo antiques, La Boca colours & tango milonga at midnight

09:00
🧊 San Telmo Sunday fair — antiques, tango dancers, 19th-century streets

The finest Sunday flea market in Latin America: colonial streets that froze in 1871 when the elite moved north.

⏱ 2.5 hrs 💶 Free
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13:00
🥩 Parrilla lunch — entraña, mollejas and chimichurri at El Desnivel

Grass-fed diaphragm steak and sweetbreads over charcoal: the Argentine beef that makes other beef taste mild.

⏱ 2 hrs 💶 ARS 3,000–5,000
16:00
🎨 La Boca El Caminito — corrugated iron painted with leftover boat paint

Where Italian immigrants built the most colourful street in Argentina with whatever colour they could find.

⏱ 2.5 hrs 💶 Free
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21:00
💃 Milonga at La Catedral — real Buenos Aires tango, no leg-flicking

200+ milongas per week in this city: close embrace, conversational, completely unlike the show version.

⏱ 4 hrs 💶 ARS 2,000–4,000
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Recoleta Cemetery, Boca Juniors La Bombonera & Don Julio steak

09:30
⚰️ Recoleta Cemetery — Evita's tomb in a city of marble mausoleums

4,691 vaults in named streets: Art Nouveau temples, Egyptian obelisks and Argentina's greatest dead.

⏱ 2 hrs 💶 Free
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12:00
🌿 Palermo Soho — jacaranda trees, boutiques and outdoor terraces

The most liveable neighbourhood in BA: Armenian street boutiques under violet-flowering trees.

⏱ 3 hrs 💶 Free
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16:00
La Bombonera stadium tour — the most atmospheric ground in Latin America

Maradona's club, Tevez's ground: the 49,000-seat "chocolate box" where football becomes religion.

⏱ 2 hrs 💶 ARS 3,000
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20:00
🥩 Don Julio — 800-label wine list and the finest ribeye in Argentina

Quebracho wood fire, ojo de bife, and Argentina's most awarded wine list. Book months ahead.

⏱ 3 hrs 💶 ARS 6,000–12,000
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Plaza de Mayo, MALBA & Teatro Colón farewell

09:00
🏛️ Plaza de Mayo — the Mothers march here every Thursday since 1977

The Pink House balcony where Evita spoke and the white obelisks of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo.

⏱ 2 hrs 💶 Free
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12:00
🖼️ MALBA — Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and the finest Latin American art museum

The most comprehensive collection of 20th-century Latin American art: Kahlo, Rivera, Berni, Botero.

⏱ 2.5 hrs 💶 ARS 2,500
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16:00
Café Tortoni — the oldest café in Buenos Aires since 1858

Where Borges, Gardel and every 20th-century Argentine intellectual drank coffee and debated everything.

⏱ 2 hrs 💶 ARS 1,000–2,000
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19:00
🎭 Teatro Colón — one of the five finest opera houses acoustically in the world

1908 opening, 2,500 seats, the finest stage in Latin America and acoustics cited alongside La Scala.

⏱ 3 hrs 💶 ARS 2,000–4,000+
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