Buenos Aires for couples
Day 1 covers San Telmo and La Boca on foot — the 1897 market hall, Caminito's painted houses, steak at La Brigada. Day 2 heads north to Recoleta Cemetery and Palermo's parks and parrillas. Day 3 is the civic centre: Plaza de Mayo, Teatro Colón, choripán near the Obelisco, and a milonga after dark. About 26 kilometres total.
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3-day itinerary
Day 1 covers San Telmo and La Boca on foot — the 1897 market hall, Caminito's painted houses, steak at La Brigada. Day 2 heads north to Recoleta Cemetery and Palermo's parks and parrillas. Day 3 is the civic centre: Plaza de Mayo, Teatro Colón, choripán near the Obelisco, and a milonga after dark. About 26 kilometres total.
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Must-see
Teatro Colón. Not the Casa Rosada, not La Boca — the opera house that took 18 years and outlived two of its three architects. Take the guided tour any weekday morning for about 3,000 ARS. The seven-story horseshoe auditorium, its painted dome, the acoustics that engineers still fly here to record — this is why Buenos Aires calls itself the Paris of South America.
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Food culture
Buenos Aires runs on beef, late dinners, and a café ritual that treats 4pm as sacred. Parrillas slow-grill asado over wood embers for hours. Pizza here is thick, doughy, and nothing like Italy's — order it with fainá on top. Dinner rarely starts before 10pm. The best eating happens in neighborhood bodegones where the menu hasn't changed since the 1970s.
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Where locals go
Villa Crespo between Scalabrini Ortiz and Dorrego is where under-35 porteños actually eat weeknights — bodegones with no English menus, wine by the penguin jug. Chacarita around Jorge Newbery has the bars that replaced early Palermo Hollywood. San Telmo's actual residents surface Monday through Thursday once the Sunday-market crowd clears out. Boedo and Caballito remain almost entirely tourist-free.
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Where to stay
Palermo Soho for first-timers — it's walkable, safe at night, and within fifteen minutes of most things you'll want to see. Budget $80–140 for a well-located apartment, $150–250 for a boutique hotel. Recoleta if you want quieter streets and proximity to the cemetery and MALBA. San Telmo for repeat visitors who like cobblestones and don't mind rougher edges.
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