Stroll by Corrientes Avenue, Buenos Aires

Corrientes Avenue is one of the most representative and important streets of Buenos Aires city and one of the most loved by the porteños. Corrientes is the bookstores, coffeehouses, theaters and pizza Restaurants Avenue.

Corrientes Avenue is the exe of night and bohemian live in Buenos Aires city and the one that identifies the Porteño. In its bars and theaters the Tango was created and along its history the tango was played by the main orchestras and singers among them the popular tango idol Carlos Gardel, who actually lived in a house located on Corrientes avenue

Corrientes born at Puerto Madero neighborhood and ends at Chacarita, it is 70 blocks long. Between 1910 and 1938 the old street was widened and transformed into an avenue. Its name as the nearby avenues Cordoba and Santa Fe comes from the name of an Argentinean Province. The avenue goes through the center and the “Once areas”, Abasto, Almagro and Villa Crespo, typical Buenos Aires areas with a strong tango historic.

The Corrientes avenue friends association, place in some of the corners tango scenes compose by sculpt figures as the one that can be appreciated in Corrientes and Drago street corner.

The majority of the most traditional pizza restaurants are located on Corrientes Avenue, especially at downtown: Güerrín, Los Inmortales, Banchero, Las Cuartetas and el Palacio de la Pizza, but also can be found in Villa Crespo, Almagro and Chacarita.

In its 8,6 Km. length the numeration varies from 1 to 6.900, and among its 70 intersections the main is the one with 9 de Julio avenue, where the visitors Hill find the Obelisk the most representative Buenos Aires icon.

In the Obelisk surroundings between Callao Avenue and Esmeralda Street (in downtown), Corrientes has the highest concentration of bookstores and theaters in the city. Practically all the main theaters in Buenos Aires are situated in this Branch: Maipo, Gran Rex, Ópera, Avenida, and San Martín, Astral, Lola Membrives, Multiteatro, Metropolitan and Alvear, among others.
The Corrientes bookstores used to be open after midnight, especially on weekends, the biggest ones has bars and show rooms.

This part of the avenue also concentrates a big quantity of bars and the most famous cafés in Buenos Aires, as: La Giralda, La Paz or El Vesuvio.

Hotels close to Corrientes Avenue
Gran Hotel Argentino
Castelar Hotel
Hotel Sarmiento Palace
Howard Johnson Plaza Florida Street
Hotel Rochester Concept