Last Day in Buenos Aires City

We woke up at half past eight, we made our baggage, had breakfast and save everything in the bus. We set to “Puerto Madero”, doing a city tour around this neighborhood while a guide told us some things about this place.

Puerto Madero

“Puerto Madero” is one of the 48 neighborhoods in which Buenos Aires City is divided. Its location near the centre of the city, the extension of it and the sight to the river made this place one of the most exclusive of Buenos Aires.

It is called in that way owing to Eduardo Madero, a merchant that presents three project of port, the last was approved by the President Julio Argentino Roca in 1882.

We met the hall of Hilton Hotel, an extremely famous hotel, we crossed the “Puente de la Mujer”, a rotary port designed by the Architect Santiago Calatrava in Buenos Aires City.

Puente de la Mujer

Puente de la Mujer (Spanish for "Women's Bridge") is a rotating footbridge for Dock 3 of the Puerto Madero commercial district of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is of the Cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge type and is also a swing bridge, but somewhat unusual in its asymmetrical arrangement. It has a single mast with cables suspending a portion of the bridge which rotates 90 degrees in order to allow water traffic to pass. When it swings to allow watercraft passage, the far end comes to a resting point on a stabilizing pylon.

After that we visited the frigate “ARA President Sarmiento” which turned in 1897 into the first bout modern school that Argentina built specifically with that objective.

Fragata Sarmiento

It was built in England, did 39 journeys around the world crossing 1.100.000 nautical miles always in peace missions. Now it is in the Dock III, in Puerto Madero, turned into a museum.

We went over inside the frigate it and it started raining, consequently we went back to the bus going to Tigre, where we had breakfast on a bout.

Tigre

Tigre (Tiger) is a town in the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, situated in the north of Greater Buenos Aires, 28 km (17 mi) north of Buenos Aires city. Tigre lies on the Paraná Delta and is an important tourist and weekend attraction, easily reached by bus and train services, including the scenic “Tren de la Costa”. It is the principal town of the Tigre Partido.

The town sits on an island created by several small streams and rivers and was founded in 1820, after floods had destroyed other settlements in the area, then known as the Partido de las Conchas.

Later, the ship took us in a ride to the Sarmiento house. A guide explained us that in that place lots of school were founded, Sarmiento lived lots of time, wrote books, etc. We came back to the bout and due to the rain we could visit the “Parque de la Costa” and “Puerto de Frutas”.

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