Puerto Madero travel guide

East of the city centre at Puerto Madero, the 19th-century docks have been successfully transformed into an attractive area with lots of good restaurants, among the modern developments of offices, shops, housing and even a university campus. It’s a good place for a walk, among the tall brick buildings, with their cranes and winches now freshly painted. Restaurants are mostly found along the waterside of the old warehouses lining Avenida Alicia M de Justo from the northern end of Dique 4, where you’ll find a helpful tourist information kiosk in a glass construction under one of the cranes.

Walking south, there are a couple of interesting ships to look at. By Dique 3, there’s the Fragata Presidente Sarmiento (Av Dávila and Perón, T011-4334 9386, Mon-Fri 0900-2000, Sat and Sun 0900-2200, US$1, free for children under 5) which was the Argentine flagship from 1899 to 1938, and is now a museum. Walking further south, in Dique 1, Avenida Juan de Garay, is the Corbeta Uruguay, the sailing ship which rescued Otto Nordenskjold’s Antarctic expedition in 1903. Also over Dique 3 is the striking harp-like bridge, the Puente de la Mujer (Bridge of Women) (daily 0800-2100) suspended by cables from a single arm.