# Roots Earth in Buenos Aires: audio stories about 52 places Canonical: https://rootsearth.com/cities/buenos-aires Published: 16 September 2026 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. ## 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. ## Roots Earth in short Roots Earth has audio stories about 5,665 places in 130 cities, 25 countries and 6 regions, written by local people. - No account - Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection - Audio stories in English and German in every city, and in Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian in 126 of the 130 cities Roots Earth for Android is available on Google Play: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootsearth.app](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootsearth.app). ## More from Roots Earth - [Latin America in the Roots Earth catalogue](https://rootsearth.com/cities#latin-america): every city in Latin America with its number of places and its languages. - [What Roots Earth is](https://rootsearth.com/app): the app in one page, how it works and what is in it. - [Questions travellers ask](https://rootsearth.com/faq): the cities, the languages, the account, listening without a connection. - [The 7 languages](https://rootsearth.com/languages): the seven languages with their codes and how many cities each one covers. - [Cordoba](https://rootsearth.com/cities/cordoba-argentina): 44 places in Argentina with audio stories. - [Mendoza](https://rootsearth.com/cities/mendoza): 42 places in Argentina with audio stories. - [Salta](https://rootsearth.com/cities/salta): 40 places in Argentina with audio stories. - [Santa Fe](https://rootsearth.com/cities/santa-fe): 40 places in Argentina with audio stories. 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