Located immediately to the north of the Plaza de Mayo. During the Colony, the neighborhood was organized around the Convent to Church of The Merced, the one that was then to only 1 block of the river, where they gave smaller bottom crafts and called era the Well of The Merced.

Around 1802 it was built in the place (between Perón and Sarmiento), a called jetty Boneo, for their manufacturer's name that concentrated on him the ultramarine activity of passengers and it loads.

When in 1794 the Real Consulate was founded in Buenos Aires, this was in the current Mitre and it Reconquers, beginning the linking of the English trade with the neighborhood. The mercantile prosperity of principles of the XIX century attracted an important number of British immigrants, being formed a bourgeoisie that was settling in this neighborhood with its residences and trade houses. It received this way the name of English Neighborhood.

In 1810 is founded the British Commercial company here at home of Mr. Clark and, in 1830, Juan Manuel of Rosas donated the land for the construction of the Church Anglican Cathedral Saint John the Baptist, current Anglican cathedral of Buenos Aires, in 25 de Mayo, between Sarmiento and Perón. The Scotsmen shared the temple and the North Americans formed in 1836 the Primera Methodist Church of Buenos Aires, with temple in the current Av. President Perón, among 25 de Mayo and it Reconquista.

The bank activity begins around 1822, with the installation of the first bank in Argentina, in the living rooms of the mansion consular English. The development of the bank City takes place starting from 1854, when being founded the Exchange in the current corner of Pte. Perón and San Martin.

From then on, numerous entities were settling down in a monumentalidad unfolding. The first buildings adopted the image of an Italian neorenacimiento, in the Victorian English version that represents a sense of solidity, prosperity and prestige, as appropriate image for the financial and bank buildings.

The Walk begins in North Diagonal with street Florida, in the 5 corners, to lower for Bartolomé Mitre toward the river, crossing a sequence of luxurious buildings of different times, where the narrow streets of having traced fundacional provide distance shortage to appreciate in perspective the beautiful facades and the even better ones you finish off, with their domes and towers.

In street Bartolomé Mitre, to few meters of Florida, on the right sidewalk, a board announces that in that property the Dr. Mariano lived Moreno between 1805 and 1811. Today is headquarters of the Bank of Bostón .

On the left sidewalk the Former Bank of Santander appears, it continues him the Bank Credit Lionnais(Ex Bank Tornquist)

Arriving to the street San Martin, in the diagonal ochava and with perspective from both streets, it is the Bank of the Province of Buenos Aires.

In the following block of Mitre with Reconquista, it is the spectacular Bank Lloyds.

In the faced corner, it is the building of the Company Advance.

In the Northeast corner it finds the Deutsche Bank

Arriving to the corner is the National Bank of Development

To the left appears, to block and mediates, the Anglican Cathedral of Buenos Aires. In the corner, on the ochava of the right, it is the access to the building of the Exchange.

The building that harbors the current enclosure has access for the two streets, being wider to important the one that is on 25 de May0. Work of modern architecture of the study of Mario A. Alvarez, 1971, possesses great width and transparency, in spite of having a tower of 14 floors in the superior part.

The opaque volume of the 1er floor that covers the entrance is the oporaciones enclosure, where they are the electronic boards; it is only accessible for partners or bag agents. From here toward the Av.Corrientes will find a concentration of Exchange offices.

Returning to Sarmiento, turned to the river, in half of the block the File and Museum of the Bank Province is to the left "Dr. Arturo Jauretche"

From here until San Martin and to the right, to block half it is the Museum Mitre.

By San Martin toward the Plaza de Mayo, to block half, it is the current headquarters of the Central Bank of the Republic Argentina

In San Martin 216 are the Numismatic Museum of the Central Bank and the Library Raúl Prebisch .

Continuing for San Martin until Perón and walking a block for this last one, you arrives to the corner with Reconquista, where the bank headquarters of Spanish Bank of the Rio de La Plata and Bank Francés of the Rio de La Plata and then, the church and the convent of Our Mrs. of the Merced, they finish this walk.