Opened in 2001, the museum is housed in an aristocratic residence that Peron expropiated to convert into a women’s shelter for his wife quasi-statal wefare agency. Its worth a visit to see the range of myths she has inspired in Argentina. Paintings, posters and busts are displayed alongside clothes she wore on tours of Europe. Monday Closed.

Created in 1967 as a token of thanks from the local Japanese Community. BA’s Japanese Gardens is one of the largest in the world outside of Japan.You’ll fond over 150 species of flora here, many brought from the mother country and some on sale at the small shop next to the entrance.Once you’ve fed the ravenous ornamental carp (they jump like Michael Jordan) you can refresh yourself at the all day tearoom which serves green teas and restaurant.The highlight of the day is the ceremony of tea which starts at 5pm and everybody is welcome to join.

Polo is played in Buenos Aires from September to November, that is, in spring. The latter is  the golden month when the venerable Abierto Argentino de Palermo (Argentinian OPen) is contested. Campo Argentino de Polo Avenida del Libertador 4300. A wonderful polo field, in Palermo, with capacity for 45,000. Tickets for all tournaments are available from Ticketek 5237 7200.

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Tarsila de Amaral and other groundbreaking painters share the walls with wonderful but not internationally famous Argentinian modern masters such as Antonio Berni and Jorge de la Vega. There is also an excellent cafe and a terrace restaurant, plus a cinema specialising in cult and art house retrospectives. An essencial visit for anyone interested in culture and the arts, This is easily the best privately managed museum in Buenos Aires and probably Argentina.

The street’s name – meaning “little walkway” comes from a 1926 tango. The  corrugated zinc shacks stacked up on each side of the walk way on their resplendent colours to the imaginative but impoverished locals who begged incoming ships for excess tints of paint.These days the street is thronged with Tango Dancers, Artisans and tourists But Caminito’s chaos and colour continues to charm.

This Cemetery is “home” to hundreds illustrious corpses, laid out in compact maze of granite, marble and bronze mausoleums- most of the materials were shipped from Paris and Milano- and a slow walk down its avenues ad alleyways is one of the city’s unalloyed delights. Originally a public cemetery on the fringes of the city, It’s now even herder to get into than the psot apartments that overlook it. These days most visitors come to see the final resting place of Evita.They are also impressive collective  tombs, great pantheons and cenotaphs inches away from oneanother. Like the city as a whole, a salmagundi of architectural styles acts in counterpoint to the strict uniformity of the street plan