Wander Argentina | Travel & Tours in Buenos Aires & Beyond

Yerba Mate: A Guide to Argentina’s Popular Pick-Me-Up Tea

It’s a daily ritual, a symbol of Argentine identity, and a South American superfood. Yerba mate is Argentina’s official national drink and the country’s second most-consumed beverage after water. Across Argentina, people have mate tea on the mind when they place the kettle on the stove first thing in the morning. A good day starts […]

Football Argentina: The Classic Teams & Famous Rivalries

Argentina’s First Division-Superliga (Super League) represents the best teams in the Argentine football. Argentina’s First Division Championship is considered one of the best in the world of football, so it’s hard to imagine that the first organized game took place at Buenos Aires Cricket club in 1867. In 1893 Argentina was the first country aside […]

Telos: History & Myths of Argentine Sex Hotels

Argentina’s sex hotels (known as telos) are inevitably surrounded by mystique. Find out which widely disseminated urban myths are true of false.

Café Culture: A Guide to Ordering like a Local

Argentina has long enjoyed a thriving coffee culture brought by the Italians, long before Starbucks hit the scene. Check out our guide to ordering coffee in Argentina. Italian coffee culture has spread throughout the world in the last twenty years or so, replacing the previously ubiquitous instant coffee and watery percolator fare with macchiatos and […]

The Best 16 Argentine Movies and TV Shows to Stream Online

Perfect for lovers of movies or those just looking for another series to binge-watch online, we’ve gathered a list of the best Argentine films and TV shows to watch this year. Including a whole range of genres, from crime dramas to unmissable Argentina ‘new cinema’ classics, the question, “What should I watch on Netflix tonight?” […]

The Plaza de Mayo: Argentina’s Most Famous Square

The Plaza de Mayo is as fundamental to Argentine political history as La Boca and homesick immigrants are to tango. The square is a political hub, financial and administrative center and throughout history has been a symbol of disaster, rebellion and hope. In May 1810, the May Revolution began in what was then called the […]

Haunted Buenos Aires: Ghost Stories of the City

Buenos Aires is a lively metropolis but it has a spooky side. Parts of the city were constructed on top of old burial grounds, soldiers died on the streets of San Telmo while fighting the English, torture occurred in secret prisons during the Dirty War, and a central tourist attraction is a VIP cemetery. Argentina’s […]

The Naval Center: A Beaux-Arts Gem on Florida St.

At 801 Florida Street, across from Galerías Pacifíco, the huge arched doorway overlooked by an ornate cast iron sea nymph blowing his bugle gives a hint to the magnificence inside. The 1914 Beaux-Arts building, one of Florida Street’s architectural gems, is home to the Argentine Naval Center. The naval club, founded in 1882, is a […]

Galería Mitre—Baroque Architecture on Florida St.

Galería Mitre, at Florida St. 343, with its Jesuit-inspired baroque style is one of the most ornate and unique buildings along downtown Buenos Aires’ pedestrian mall. The unusual moldings of the building’s façade are inspired by indigenous art from the northern regions, where the Jesuits had many missions beginning in the 1580’s. The moldings are […]

Galerías Pacífico: Florida Street’s Shopping Mall

The 1991 debut of Buenos Aires’ downtown shopping mall, Galerías Pacífico, is what saved downtown’s Florida Street from becoming a complete ghost town in the 1990’s. The opening of the three-floor 180-shop mall was also a financial blow to the already hemorrhaging Harrods Buenos Aires a block away, and in part led to Harrods Buenos […]

Harrods Buenos Aires and the Decline of Florida Street

In 1914, Britain’s most prestigious department store, Harrod’s, decided to open an overseas branch in Argentina. The beautiful Belle Époque style building takes up most of the block at Florida 877, and for many years was the city’s most elegant department store. Harrods Buenos Aires remains the first and only foray into foreign territory […]