Puerto Madero Activities

Puente de la Mujer

The new pedestrian and pivoting bridge was built in Dock 3, in Puerto Madero neighborhood (at the level of Avenida de Mayo). It is the first work that the architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava built in Latin America. This bridge is 160 m. long by 5 m. wide. The metallic arm, 39 m. high, can be seen from Leandro N. Alem avenue. The bridge is prepared to move up whenever a ship has to get through. The pivoting mechanism is one of the biggest in the world. It has 20 electric and computerized motors in the main axle.
This bridge was granted to the City of Buenos Aires by the businessman Alberto L. González. It has been an investment of 6 million dollars. Built in Spain, its different fragments were then shipped to Buenos Aires.
The plastic interpretation of the work is a couple dancing tango, where the white mast represents the man and the curved profile of the bridge is the woman.

Dock 3 in Puerto Madero (between the vehicular bridges facing Macacha Güemes, Perón, Azucena Villaflor and Belgrano avenues)

Bus lines: 2, 4, 6, 9, 10, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 29, 33, 45, 50, 54, 55.


Ecological Reserve


This is a green space of 360 hectares with some unique features. The land was gained to the river by artificially refilling this area. As years went by, a wide variety of the typical River Plate flora and fauna started to grow up in this area. It has been officially declared as a “Natural Park and Reservoir Zone”.
It is a few blocks far from the financial and administrative city, on the southern cost of the River Plate.
You can take a walk or a bicycle ride down the paths that go to the river and stop to have a wonderful view from the sightseeing balconies.

Av. Tristán Achaval Rodríguez 1550

Bus Lines: 4, 29, 33, 53, 54, 64, 86, 129, 130, 152, 154, 159, 168, 186




1. De la Cárcova Fine Arts School
Tristán Achával Rodríguez 1701

This is the venue of the Museum of Exact Replicas. Reproductions of classic sculptures are exhibited in a normal size. Workshops and courses are conducted in this place also. At the interior park –decorated with a Moorish fountain and old trees- there is a parrilla.

2. Fountain of the Nereid
Tristán Achával Rodríguez 1600

This is a work made by the sculptor Lola Mora in 1903. This artist was born in the province of Tucumán. The work intends to represent Venus birth. The initial idea was to place it at Plaza de Mayo, but the naked figure generated so many problems that it was placed in Leandro N. Alem avenue. After fifteen years, it was moved to Costanera Sur. It was made of Carrara marble.

3. Ecologic Reserve
Tristán Achával Rodríguez 1550

Without any human intervention, the local fauna and flora began to inhabit the lands gained to the river during the 70’s. In 1986, it was officially declared as an Ecologic Reserve by the Buenos Aires government at that time. Five minutes away from Buenos Aires city center, it has a surface of 350 hectares. It is covered by pastures of cortaderas and forests of alders and willows. Hundreds of birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles inhabit this area. Guided tours are organized during the day and the night.

4. Costanera Sur
Between Azucena Villaflor and Tristán Achával Rodríguez

In 1918, it was inaugurated as a municipal leisure place. A long jetty separated the women bath area from men bath area, according to the rules of that time. The riverside became one of the most favorite places in Buenos Aires city. Since the 50’s, due to the River Plate contamination, it lost popularity.

5. Malecón Building
dock 1

Built in 1999, the project was directed by one of the most important architecture studios in the United States. This is an office tower comprising twelve floors. A great commercial center.

6. Ship Museum and Corvette Uruguay
Dock 4

It was built in British shipyards and brought to Buenos Aires by order of President Sarmiento in 1872. Between 1898 and 1961, it was the training ship of the Argentine Navy. It is 85 meters long and 13,3 wide. In 1901, it was driven to the Antarctica to rescue the Swedish expedition of the ‘Antartic’, which was wrecked by the immensity of the ice.

7. Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza Church
Dock 2

It depends from the Argentine Naval Prefecture. It was designed by the architects Poli, Casano and Zubillaga. It was inaugurated in 1996. It has a round base such as the Inmaculada Concepción church in Belgrano neighborhood.

8. Buenos Aires City Mill
Dock 2

On the eastern margin of the dock, this mill is located. It was built in 1891. It had manufactured flour until 1956. The style is aligned with the typical harbor functional architecture. It was officially declared as a part of the national patrimony.

9. Molinos Río de la Plata Building
Dock 3

This building was finished in 1902. That was the most wealthy period for Buenos Aires port. The telescopic drain silos helped to organize the loading and unloading of goods according to the storage aging.

10. Ship Museum and Frigate Sarmiento
Dock 3

It was one of the training ships that belongs to the Navy. It was built in England in 1898 by order of the Argentine government. It performed 39 voyages throughout the worldwide seas.

11. The Bridge of the Woman
Dock 3

This is a work by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. The bridge rotates 90 degrees so as to allow the passage of the ships. It had been built in 12 months and finished in 2001.

12. Christopher Columbus Monument and Park
Avenida de la Rábida

This work was encouraged by Antonio Devoto, a wealthy Italian immigrant, to celebrate the Argentine Independence centenary. It was made by the sculptor Arnaldo Zocchi and inaugurated in 1921.
Columbus figure -made in Carrara marble- weighs 38 tons and is 6. 25 meters tall.
The monument still has some traces of the missiles shot during the raid occurred in Plaza de Mayo in 1955, when the Marine airplanes tried to remove President Perón by force.

13. Hilton Buenos Aires
Dock 3

The hotel offers a different architectonical landscape in Puerto Madero and an event infrastructure that may answer to a great demand. It has a glazing foyer of 600 square meters and 421 rooms.

14. Monumental Antenna or Mast of the Italians
Intersection of De los Italianos avenue and Güemes street

At the center of the square, you can see the column and on top of it, a replica of San Marcos\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' Winged León, typical Venetian figure. The Government of Italy donated this sculpture –the meeting point for the Italian celebrations which take place in this city.

15. Puerto Madero Station
Intersection of Perón and Alicia Moreau de Justo avenues

A railway service of a high category arrives at this station. Trains are equipped with air conditioning and functional music. A tunnel built in 1912 which joins the port to the West of Buenos Aires adds a picturesque component to the landscape.

16. Puerto Madero Yacht Club
Dock 4

Inaugurated in 1997, it was initially projected by Camper, an English company which has been dedicated to port construction from 1782. It holds a Floating Club House of 2000 square meters, distributed in three plants. The 250 mooring lines are illuminated and among its services we find drinkable water, phone cable television, cleaning, maintenance and nautical repairs.


17. Center of Tourist Information
Dock 4

One of the seven centers of tourist aid offered by Buenos Aires city government. You can here be provided with maps, guides and brochures.

18. Bank Boston Building
Della Paolera 265

At the hall, you can see a mural which is 5.5 by 12 meters and was made by the Argentine painter Guillermo Roux and finished in 2005. The work has been made four years by Roux with the collaboration of Marina Curci and Laura Olalde