Buenos Aires, Argentina City Guide
For over 20 years, Pamela Lanier's Buenos Aires, Argentina Travel Guide has been your connection to Buenos Aires's tourism community with invaluable details on local attractions, restaurants, shopping, museums, history, outdoor recreation and more.
Events
 Buenos Aires is a busy, hustling, bustling city, and there is always something going on. There are plenty of events to be enjoyed in Buenos Aires all year round.
In January, the Cancha de Boca Stadium Action, known as the sweet box, this horseshoe-shaped stadium built in the 1940s, each year seats up to 60,000 for Argentine. Each Sunday in January and on bank holidays, the Argentine Crafts & Traditions Fair brings country fare to the city, with free dance, music and craft workshops, plus stands offering silver, wood textiles and other goods opposite the cattle market (Mercado de Hacienda. In late February and early March more than 150 performers gather to give nearly 100 free shows and concerts at this festival also featuring finals of the Metropolitan Ballroom Tango Championship. Also in March, is The Marathon for Women. This annual marathon coincides with the March International Women's Day. With April comes the Buenos Aires Book Festival that spans over three weeks, drawing more than a million book lovers to the La Rural Exhibition Complex. Taking place each May at the Predio Ferial de Palermo, the Feria de Galerias de Arte also known as Arte BA, showcases Argentine painters, sculptors, graphics experts, photographers and videographers. May is also Military Parade month, with a military parade commemorating the Revolucion de Mayo (May Revolution).
June marks the Anniversary of Carlos Gardel’s Death - the passing of the famed tango vocalist. The International Video-Dance Festival takes place in July at the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center. La Rural International Exhibition features livestock, agriculture and industry exhibits offering insights into current international market conditions. The Argentine leg of the FIA World Rally Championship takes place in July as well. August brings an exodus from the city to prime Argentine ski resorts, and the Snow Carnival. Host to the world’s great performers, Teatro Colon opened in 1908, and now has a year around event schedule with tours of the historic in September. October is time for the World Tango Festival, followed by the International Guitar Festival, at Polo fans flock to the world-class Argentine Open Championship, running late November through early December. In early November, Gay Pride weekend marks 1969’s formation of the city’s first ever gay assembly. The year closes out in December with the International Tango Festival, National Tango Day, and the Polo Argentine Open.
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