The visit begins in the corner of the streets Balcarce and Mexico. In Balcarce you will find an old deposit of 1880, first originally the annex of the old House of Currency .

Then turning to the left down the street Chile, admire the facade of what was the South American Company of Notes of Bank.

In front of this it is the headquarters of the Foundation Antorchas, good and recent example of recycling of two old buildings.

The street slope Chile, with their paved original, it is the beginning of this neighborhood. In this area there is numerous tanguerías. For Balcarce it arrives until the Passage San Lorenzo.

The physical limit of San Telmo went until the second half of last century, because somewhere around the stream ran Third of the South that was born where it is today the Square Constitution. It tubed it to him in 1865, being the first work of this type. To enter for the passage to know numerous examples of the domestic architecture of last century. As curiosity, in the N° 380 the Minimum House are, in the N° 319 will find the Patios of San Telmo, this house very as amended that dates of ends of the XVIII century, one with colonial plant and three successive patios; today it is transformed in artisans' shops and artists. It can visit one another. At the end of the passage, on Defense, a recovered house of 1860, and recycled for commercial use, it constitutes other good example of respect to the past.

To continue for Balcarce and to lower until Av. Independencia, today enlarged to coast of the old neighborhood. The passage is closed to the traffic of vehicles on Sundays, taking place activities artistic, popular dances there had improvised tango shows.

It is a famous tango place, created in 1968 by the singer of tangos Edmundo Rivero who was presented there during almost 2 decades. In this same corner it worked, approximately 165 years ago, the English Hospital that moved in 1848; the place was occupied by the warehouse Banks of the Silver. It was winery shop later with wholesale and smaller, and later, the restaurant Russian Volga. In the wall Balcarce has more than enough they are still come iron rings that, in another time, they were good to tie the horses.

From the Paseo Colon toward the river the imposing building of the engineering Univerity is observed.

It was originally built to be headquarters of the Foundation Eva Perón with a gigantic Greek propileo and, contiguous, the harmonic twin buildings of the Secretary of Agriculture and Cattle raising. En el centro de la avenida, ocupando la plaza coronel Olazábal, el grupo escultórico llamado Canto al Trabajo .

From Paseo Colón consents to the Passage Giuffra.

To continue the walk for Balcarce toward the south, for where formerly the ravine arrived at the river. In the corner with Carlos Calvo an old construction exists without ochavas, of the XVIII century, and next to this another of the same time called House of Castagnino.

On Carlos Calvo's block that lowers toward the Walk Columbus, observe the small and very proportionate building of the Danish Church.

Ascending for Carlos Calvo, the next block also possesses numerous examples of old construction. In the N° 319 find a house that subsists from 1780, today recycled in restaurant. In the N° 383 are another bicentennial residence, the House of Esteban de Luca.

To continue, turning to the left for street Defensa. It was this the Real Street of the Port that communicated the city of the Trinidad, from Plaza de Mayo, with the port of Santa María from the Buenos Aires in the Riachuelo and it was prolonged toward the territories of the south. It was during the XVII and XVIII centuries the dynamic artery of the incipient town. It begins the densest and varied sector of antique dealers in the city here. In the vicinity is also the great Market of San Telmo.

To continue for Defense until arriving at the Square Dorrego, in the same square, in days of week they invade the place the tables of the neighboring coffees, allowing to enjoy a bustled ambient, considerably less charmer that in days Sunday, when takes place the Fair of San Telmo.

It meets on Sundays and it possesses salespersons' positions occupying the square and the surrounding streets, offering a great variety of old objects and curiosities. Created in 1970, it celebrates their birthday annually during the week of Buenos Aires (around November 11) with showy party in those that participate all the people, disguised a little more than the habitual thing. Important tourist attraction of the city.

They surround it the streets Defense, Humberto I and two small streets where varied examples of domestic architecture cohabit of among ends of the century IXX and beginnings of the XX one, being the oldest those of the encounter of Defense with Bethlehem. The exception constitutes it, on the same Bethlehem, a house of net court rationalist, works of the Arq. Alejo Martínez, in year 1935.

In street Bethlehem 443 are the Foundation Forner-Bigatti.

To few meters of the square, in street Humberto I, will find the Church of Nuestra Señora de Belén and contiguous to this temple it is the Penitentiary Museum.

Crossing the street, an old construction, the school Guillermo Rawson

From the square, advancing for Defense toward the south, the following block possesses numerous local and galleries with antique dealers' business whose detailed visits one another it recommends for the variety and wealth of the exposed material. They stand out for their span Gallery of the Defense .

When arriving to the corner to deviate to the left for Av. San Juan gives birth to know the Museum of Modern Art , follow the walk for Defense, in Brazil to turn to the left to visit the Russian Orthodox Church

This walk is completed visiting, to the front, the Park Lezama.

Located in the exact point where it finishes the long line of ravines that, from the province of Santa Fe, it accompanied to the river Paraná and their continuation in the river de la Plata until the mouth of the Riachuelo. It is said that it is here where Pedro de Mendoza founded the first city. In 1582, Garay granted this lot to the captain Alonso de Vera. In 1812 the English Daniel Mackinley and it installed a fifth looking to the river. To their death the North American Charles Ridgely Horne bought it who enlarged the property and it built a luxurious mansion on he remains silent Defense. In 1857 he sold it to Gregorio Lezama, rich merchant married with Angela Alzaga. It is him who make the current park, bringing many exotic species and extending even more the property. It enlarged and it beautified the residence and it decorated the garden with statues and artistic glasses, surrounding everything with a high fence of grills. Their widow gave it to the Municipality in 1894, to condition of staying her husband's name. The park conserves that atmosphere , getting rich with the perspectives at different level of its old ravine.

In Defense and Brazil is the main access to the square, with the Monument to Pedro de Mendoza.

Walking toward the center of the square, next to the walk of the ornamental glasses, a monument donated by the city from Rome to Buenos Aires, the Roman Wolf, inaugurated in 1923, replica in brass of the statue that is in the Campidoglio of Rome.

Leaning on an ornamental plinth composed by a source and two reliefs in brass, to the left it has a human figure representing the river of the Silver and, to the right, other representing to the river Tiber.

To continue the walk for the borders of the square, beginning it in Av. Brazil, to visit a rectangular pond surrounded by tiers that form an amphitheater.

If you advances you observes Fugitive Diana's beautiful statue, in this place from 1938, it works of the sculptor Louis Vinieux and carried out according to the approach of naturalistic representation of the Art Nouveau. Continue skirting it toward Paseo Colón, to see the beautiful source of the House Du Val D'Osne of Paris.

Later on the Bust of Ulrico Schmidl and advancing toward Av. Martin García is the Cruzeiro .

Lowering until the level of Av. Martin García will be able to observe the Monument to the International Cordiality and to finish the journey of the park, we suggest to visit the National Historical Museum .

It occupies the one that was the residence Lezama. It was dedicated to museum from their donation for the widow of Lezama. They are conserved testimonies of the history of the Argentina that reflect every period, here beginning with the viceregal one, with remains of the nao Marañona, of the XV century, relics of the missions, paintings of the XVIII century (so much of Spanish origin as cuzqueñas) and some excellent pieces of furniture of the XVIII and XIX centuries. In other rooms they are exhibited, as trophies of the wars of Independence, taken flags to the Spaniards in the battles of Suipacha and Montevideo. The whole furniture of the original room is in the superior level where the Gral died. San Martin, brought from the house of Grand Bourg, France, as well as a replica of the front of the same one.

They are, also, the rooms of the Campaigns Sanmartinianas, where can notice himself the magnitude of the same ones.

In another sector the battle of Ituzaingó is described, where the Brazilian flag is also exhibited that the Admiral took Brown in the Combat de los Pozos.

There is another dedicated place to the period of confrontations between unitary and federal, with interesting documentation and objects that belonged to Juan Manuel of Roses and to their daughter Manuelita.

But it is in the rooms that harbor the pictorial collections where the best notes in our history of uses and customs are observed, with engravings carried out by such artists as Carlos Enrique Pellegrini, Hipólito Bacle and Carlos Morel. Finally it will find the collection that makes obligatory the visit to this museum, Cándido López's paintings (the Cripple of Curupayti), 32 oils where scenes of the war of the Paraguay are described, in which this painter participated and where it suffered the loss of his wounded right arm in combat. Their importance transcends the merely historical thing, because it is works of great artistic value, where the coloring, the wealth of the particulars and the frank realism of the story make of them main part of the Argentinean artistic patrimony.