Barrio Norte, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Barrio Norte, Buenos Aires?

Museums and churches mark the quarter. The Museum of Hispanic American Art Isaac Fernández Blanco fills the Palacio Noel on Suipacha with colonial silver and Cuzco-school painting, while the National Museum of Decorative Arts gathers its collection inside the Errázuriz palace nearby. The Basílica del Santísimo Sacramento rises close by.

Together they lend Barrio Norte its museum-lined, palace-lined character.

What is the history of Barrio Norte, Buenos Aires?

The quarter grew as a fashionable address. Wealthy families of Buenos Aires built French-style mansions and academicist apartment houses on the higher ground behind the port, and palaces such as the one that now holds the Museum of Hispanic American Art Isaac Fernández Blanco set the tone for the streets around Avenida Santa Fe. The avenue drew the shops.

Its façades still give Barrio Norte its Parisian air.

Where is Barrio Norte, Buenos Aires?

Barrio Norte spreads across the raised inland blocks of Buenos Aires between Avenida Santa Fe and Avenida Callao, an unofficial zone that overlaps Recoleta and Retiro, its edges marked by the Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Socorro and the museums along Suipacha. The land rises gently from the river. Wide sidewalks run everywhere.