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Roots Earth in Buenos Aires: audio stories about 52 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 52 places in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in Latin America. The Buenos Aires stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Buenos Aires, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

The 52 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026.

Published 16 September 2026. Markdown: buenos-aires.md

The 52 places in Buenos Aires with audio stories

In the order the app shows them.

  1. Obelisco de Buenos Aires
  2. Casa Rosada
  3. Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral
  4. Teatro Colon
  5. Plaza de Mayo
  6. La Recoleta Cemetery
  7. El Ateneo Grand Splendid
  8. Caminito
  9. Cabildo of Buenos Aires
  10. Palacio Barolo
  11. Argentine National Congress
  12. Galerias Pacifico
  13. Floralis Generica
  14. MALBA
  15. National Museum of Fine Arts
  16. Kirchner Cultural Centre
  17. Teatro Nacional Cervantes
  18. Palace of Justice of the Argentine Nation
  19. Avenida 9 de Julio
  20. Avenida de Mayo
  21. Puerto Madero
  22. Plaza San Martin
  23. Torre Monumental
  24. Galileo Galilei Planetarium
  25. Buenos Aires Botanical Garden
  26. Parque Tres de Febrero
  27. Estadio Monumental
  28. La Bombonera
  29. Galeria Guemes
  30. Buenos Aires Stock Exchange
  31. Kavanagh Building
  32. Palacio de Aguas Corrientes
  33. Confiteria del Molino
  34. National Library of Argentina
  35. San Telmo
  36. La Boca
  37. Palermo
  38. Plaza Dorrego
  39. Cafe Tortoni
  40. Costanera Sur Ecological Reserve
  41. Tigre
  42. Abasto de Buenos Aires
  43. Belgrano
  44. Barrio Chino
  45. Caballito
  46. Fundacion Proa
  47. La Chacarita Cemetery
  48. Centro Cultural Recoleta
  49. Mataderos
  50. Lezama Park
  51. Parque Centenario
  52. Boedo

Is there an audio guide for Obelisco de Buenos Aires?

Yes. Obelisco de Buenos Aires has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian.

It is place 1 of the 52 Buenos Aires places in the app, at -34.60361, -58.38167. Every one of the other 51 places in the list above has the same two stories.

Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

How to use Roots Earth in Buenos Aires

Open Roots Earth and choose Buenos Aires. The city has its own map of places with all 52 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order.

You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 52 places in Buenos Aires, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 52 places in Buenos Aires, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. Obelisco de Buenos Aires

Coordinates
-34.60361, -58.38167
In one line
A stark white spire rising 67 meters above the city's widest avenue, the Obelisco was raised in 1936 for Buenos Aires's 400th anniversary. It marks the spot where Argentina's flag first flew in the capital.

2. Casa Rosada

Coordinates
-34.60806, -58.37028
In one line
Argentina's presidential palace, the Casa Rosada glows pink above the Plaza de Mayo. Unified into one Italianate building by 1898, its famous balcony has carried the voices of presidents and Evita to crowds gathered below.

3. Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral

Coordinates
-34.60741, -58.37328
In one line
Behind a portico of twelve columns that looks more like a Greek temple than a church, this neoclassical cathedral holds the tomb of liberator José de San Martín. Pope Francis once served here as archbishop.

4. Teatro Colon

Coordinates
-34.60108, -58.38308
In one line
One of the world's greatest opera houses, the Teatro Colón opened in 1908 after two decades of building. Its horseshoe auditorium seats nearly 2,500 and is renowned for acoustics ranked among the finest anywhere.

5. Plaza de Mayo

Coordinates
-34.60833, -58.37194
In one line
The founding square of Buenos Aires, laid out in 1580, the Plaza de Mayo has been the stage of Argentine public life for centuries. It saw the 1810 May Revolution and the vigils of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.

6. La Recoleta Cemetery

Coordinates
-34.58806, -58.39306
In one line
Opened in 1822 as the city's first public cemetery, La Recoleta is a labyrinth of nearly 4,700 ornate mausoleums in marble and bronze. Among its many leaders rests Eva Perón, in the Duarte family vault.

7. El Ateneo Grand Splendid

Coordinates
-34.59611, -58.39417
In one line
A 1919 theater turned bookshop in 2000, El Ateneo Grand Splendid sells books beneath a painted dome, with readers browsing in former opera boxes and a café set on the old stage. It is often called the world's most beautiful bookstore.

8. Caminito

Coordinates
-34.6393, -58.3628
In one line
A short, curving alley in La Boca lined with brightly painted corrugated-iron houses, born from a 1950s revival led by painter Benito Quinquela Martín. Today it is an open-air street museum filled with tango, color, and Genoese immigrant memory.

9. Cabildo of Buenos Aires

Coordinates
-34.60889, -58.37361
In one line
The white-arcaded colonial town hall on Plaza de Mayo, with its first floor completed in 1748 and its tower built in 1773. The only colonial public building left on the square, it was the hub of the 1810 May Revolution and now houses a national history museum.

10. Palacio Barolo

Coordinates
-34.60956, -58.38586
In one line
An eclectic 100-meter tower on Avenida de Mayo, built between 1919 and 1923 by Italian architect Mario Palanti. Its structure is themed on Dante's Divine Comedy, rising from a hellish base through purgatory to a paradise crowned by a working lighthouse.

11. Argentine National Congress

Coordinates
-34.60965, -58.39258
In one line
Argentina's monumental seat of legislative power, begun in 1898, inaugurated in 1906 and completed in 1946 to designs by Vittorio Meano and finished by Julio Dormal. Its 80-meter bronze-clad dome and crowning quadriga preside over Plaza del Congreso at the head of Avenida de Mayo.

12. Galerias Pacifico

Coordinates
-34.59917, -58.37472
In one line
A Beaux-Arts shopping arcade built between 1889 and 1891 as an elegant department store. Its glass dome shelters vivid 1940s frescoes by leading Argentine muralists, while its basement once hid a clandestine torture center during the dictatorship.

13. Floralis Generica

Coordinates
-34.58167, -58.39389
In one line
A giant steel-and-aluminum flower standing 23 meters tall in a Recoleta park, created in 2002 by architect Eduardo Catalano as a gift to Buenos Aires. Its great metal petals were designed to open by day and close at night, mirrored in a reflecting pool.

14. MALBA

Coordinates
-34.57697, -58.40339
In one line
A sleek limestone-and-glass museum in Palermo, opened in 2001 to house Latin American art collected by Eduardo Costantini. Designed by AFT Architects, it holds masterworks by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Tarsila do Amaral and other regional giants.

15. National Museum of Fine Arts

Coordinates
-34.58399, -58.39297
In one line
Argentina's foremost art museum occupies a former drainage pumping station on Avenida del Libertador, gathering European masters such as Goya, Rembrandt and Van Gogh alongside celebrated Argentine painters across more than thirty exhibition halls.

16. Kirchner Cultural Centre

Coordinates
-34.60333, -58.36944
In one line
Housed in the monumental former Central Post Office of 1928, this cultural centre opened in 2015 as one of Latin America's largest, famed for its suspended Blue Whale concert hall, grand staircase and soaring domed ceiling.

17. Teatro Nacional Cervantes

Coordinates
-34.59889, -58.38381
In one line
Argentina's national theatre opened in 1921, founded by Spanish actors María Guerrero and Fernando Díaz de Mendoza. Its ornate Spanish-Renaissance facade fronts the elegant María Guerrero hall, a stage central to the country's dramatic life.

18. Palace of Justice of the Argentine Nation

Coordinates
-34.60217, -58.38575
In one line
Designed by Norbert Maillart and completed in 1942, this monumental Neoclassical palace houses Argentina's Supreme Court. Its colossal columns and marble halls gave the surrounding Tribunales district its name and its imposing legal character.

19. Avenida 9 de Julio

Coordinates
-34.60778, -58.38139
In one line
Often called the widest avenue in the world, this 110-meter boulevard slices through central Buenos Aires. Named for Argentina's Independence Day, it carries up to seven lanes each way and centers on the towering Obelisco.

20. Avenida de Mayo

Coordinates
-34.60889, -58.37861
In one line
Opened in 1894, this elegant boulevard links Plaza de Mayo with the Congress. Its Art Nouveau and eclectic facades, historic cafés and the Palacio Barolo evoke Madrid and Paris, earning it National Historic Site protection.

21. Puerto Madero

Coordinates
-34.61194, -58.36472
In one line
Buenos Aires's newest neighborhood rose from a derelict 1890s port, its brick warehouses reborn as restaurants and lofts beside glassy towers. Santiago Calatrava's sweeping Puente de la Mujer arcs over the old docks, now the city's most fashionable waterfront.

22. Plaza San Martin

Coordinates
-34.595, -58.37556
In one line
A landscaped hilltop park in Retiro laid out in 1889 by Charles Thays, crowned by an equestrian monument to José de San Martín and ringed by grand mansions, towers, and ancient shade trees.

23. Torre Monumental

Coordinates
-34.5923, -58.3737
In one line
A 75-meter Palladian clock tower in Retiro, gifted by the British community for Argentina's 1910 centennial and inaugurated in 1916. Built of English stone and brick, it was renamed Torre Monumental after the 1982 Malvinas War.

24. Galileo Galilei Planetarium

Coordinates
-34.56972, -58.41167
In one line
A modernist planetarium in Parque Tres de Febrero, designed by Enrique Jan and inaugurated in 1966. Its hemispherical dome and futuristic form house a 360-seat sky theater, with an Apollo 11 moon rock and a Chaco meteorite on display.

25. Buenos Aires Botanical Garden

Coordinates
-34.58247, -58.4186
In one line
A 7-hectare garden in Palermo, designed by Carlos Thays and opened in 1898. It holds approximately 5,500 plant species across Roman, French, and Oriental sections, an Art Nouveau glasshouse, dozens of sculptures, and a famous resident cat colony.

26. Parque Tres de Febrero

Coordinates
-34.57333, -58.41472
In one line
A sprawling 400-hectare park in Palermo, opened in 1875 on land once owned by the deposed ruler Rosas. Known as the Bosques de Palermo, it holds rose gardens, lakes, a poets' garden, and a planetarium, all later expanded by Carlos Thays.

27. Estadio Monumental

Coordinates
-34.54528, -58.44972
In one line
The home of River Plate in Belgrano, inaugurated in 1938 and now the largest stadium in South America with capacity around 85,000. It hosted the 1978 World Cup final and serves as the main ground of Argentina's national team.

28. La Bombonera

Coordinates
-34.63565, -58.36465
In one line
The home of Boca Juniors in La Boca, inaugurated in 1940 and officially named the Estadio Alberto J. Armando. Its steep three-sided shape, nicknamed the chocolate box, holds around 58,000 fans and is famed for the way it seems to vibrate during matches.

29. Galeria Guemes

Coordinates
-34.6061, -58.375
In one line
An ornate Art Nouveau arcade of 1913 by Italian architect Francesco Gianotti, linking Florida and San Martin streets with a barrel-vaulted passage, shops, and a tower that once held one of the city's earliest skyscrapers.

30. Buenos Aires Stock Exchange

Coordinates
-34.60389, -58.37056
In one line
Argentina's principal securities market, founded in 1854, occupies a stately headquarters of 1916 by Alejandro Christophersen, paired with a modernist annex of 1977 by Mario Roberto Alvarez, on Leandro Alem avenue in the financial district.

31. Kavanagh Building

Coordinates
-34.59542, -58.37467
In one line
A pioneering modernist skyscraper of 1936 overlooking Plaza San Martin, its 120-meter concrete tower the tallest in Latin America when built. Commissioned by Corina Kavanagh, it remains an icon of rationalist design and an enduring city legend.

32. Palacio de Aguas Corrientes

Coordinates
-34.60056, -58.395
In one line
A lavishly decorated water pumping station of 1894, its eclectic facade clad in some 300,000 glazed tiles imported from Britain. Behind the ornate palace exterior stood vast iron tanks supplying the city, now partly a museum on Cordoba avenue.

33. Confiteria del Molino

Coordinates
-34.60889, -58.39222
In one line
A storied Art Nouveau cafe and confectionery of 1916 by Francesco Gianotti, facing the National Congress. Its corner turret rises about 65 meters, topped with stained-glass windmill sails. Closed in 1997, it is now a national monument under restoration.

34. National Library of Argentina

Coordinates
-34.58444, -58.39806
In one line
Argentina's national library, founded in 1810, occupies a striking Brutalist building of raised concrete designed by Clorindo Testa and opened in 1992. It rises in Recoleta on the former site of the residence where Juan and Eva Peron once lived.

35. San Telmo

Coordinates
-34.62056, -58.37167
In one line
One of the oldest neighborhoods in Buenos Aires, named for a parish established in 1806. Known for cobbled streets, antique shops, and tango, it draws crowds to its Sunday fair in Plaza Dorrego and its bohemian, lived-in atmosphere.

36. La Boca

Coordinates
-34.63556, -58.36472
In one line
La Boca is a working-class riverside barrio in southeast Buenos Aires, settled largely by Genoese immigrants. Famous for its brightly painted corrugated-iron houses, the Caminito street museum, tango roots, and the Boca Juniors football club.

37. Palermo

Coordinates
-34.5775, -58.42528
In one line
Palermo is the largest barrio in Buenos Aires, a sprawling district of parks, lakes and tree-lined avenues. Once the estate of Juan Manuel de Rosas, it now blends grand green spaces with fashionable sub-neighborhoods, embassies, galleries and nightlife.

38. Plaza Dorrego

Coordinates
-34.62056, -58.37167
In one line
Plaza Dorrego sits at the heart of historic San Telmo, a small colonial square ringed by old cafes and antique shops. Once the focal point of the city's grandest barrio, it now hosts a famous Sunday antiques fair and open-air tango.

39. Cafe Tortoni

Coordinates
-34.60861, -58.37861
In one line
Cafe Tortoni, founded in 1858 on Avenida de Mayo, is the oldest cafe in Buenos Aires. A Belle Epoque landmark of marble tables and stained glass, it has hosted writers, musicians and tango legends, and remains a National Historic Monument.

40. Costanera Sur Ecological Reserve

Coordinates
-34.60389, -58.3525
In one line
The Costanera Sur Ecological Reserve is a wild green expanse on the Rio de la Plata beside Puerto Madero. Built on landfill from the 1970s and rewilded by nature, it became a protected reserve in 1986 and now shelters abundant birds and wetland life.

41. Tigre

Coordinates
-34.41667, -58.58333
In one line
Tigre is a delta town about 28 kilometers north of Buenos Aires, set among the channels of the Parana Delta. Famous for its rowing clubs, Belle Epoque mansions, the Puerto de Frutos market and launch trips through the islands.

42. Abasto de Buenos Aires

Coordinates
-34.60361, -58.41083
In one line
The Abasto is a monumental Art Deco building that served as the city's central produce market from 1893 until 1984. Designed in the early 1930s with soaring concrete vaults, it reopened in 1998 as a shopping center in the neighborhood tied to tango legend Carlos Gardel.

43. Belgrano

Coordinates
-34.5625, -58.45833
In one line
A leafy northern barrio established in 1855, Belgrano briefly served as Argentina's capital in 1880. Its shaded barrancas, round church and grand avenues make it one of the city's most genteel quarters.

44. Barrio Chino

Coordinates
-34.55778, -58.45
In one line
Buenos Aires's compact Chinatown grew along Arribeños street in Belgrano from the 1980s. A ceremonial paifang arch, busy supermarkets, temples and restaurants make these five blocks the heart of the city's East Asian community.

45. Caballito

Coordinates
-34.61667, -58.45
In one line
Sitting at the geographic center of Buenos Aires, Caballito takes its name from a little-horse weathervane on an old pulpería. A residential barrio of English-style houses, parks and the city's first subway line.

46. Fundacion Proa

Coordinates
-34.6397, -58.362
In one line
A contemporary art museum on La Boca's riverfront, founded in 1996.

47. La Chacarita Cemetery

Coordinates
-34.59083, -58.45972
In one line
Born of the 1871 yellow fever epidemic, La Chacarita is the largest cemetery in Buenos Aires, spanning 95 hectares. Tango legend Carlos Gardel rests here among avenues of mausoleums honoring artists, musicians and statesmen.

48. Centro Cultural Recoleta

Coordinates
-34.58639, -58.39222
In one line
Housed in a Franciscan convent founded in 1716, this Recoleta landmark became a cultural center around 1980. Colonial cloisters reworked by Clorindo Testa now hold exhibitions, concerts and workshops beside the famous cemetery.

49. Mataderos

Coordinates
-34.66667, -58.5
In one line
A working-class barrio named for its slaughterhouses and cattle market, Mataderos keeps gaucho culture alive. Its Sunday folk fair, begun in 1986, fills the streets with folk music, criollo food, crafts and horseback games.

50. Lezama Park

Coordinates
-34.62667, -58.36944
In one line
Lezama Park spreads across a leafy rise in southern Buenos Aires, its 8 hectares once a private estate. Tradition marks this barranca as the site of the city's first 1536 founding by Pedro de Mendoza.

51. Parque Centenario

Coordinates
-34.60639, -58.43556
In one line
Parque Centenario forms a great green circle at the geographic heart of Buenos Aires. Designed by Carlos Thays, the park's planned 1910 inauguration was delayed and work was completed in 1920; it wraps a lake, an amphitheater, and a natural sciences museum.

52. Boedo

Coordinates
-34.63333, -58.41667
In one line
Boedo is a working-class neighborhood of cafés, tango, and literary memory in southern Buenos Aires. Named for independence figure Mariano Boedo, it gave its name to a left-leaning 1920s writers' group and to the famous corner of San Juan and Boedo.

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