How to get there

By Air
From Buenos Aires to Mar del Plata, Bahía Blanca, Villa Gesell, Necochea and Tandil.
By Land
From Capital Federal and cities in the interior of the country, to the main cities in the province.
Train
To La Plata, Bahía Blanca, Mar del Plata, Miramar, Pinamar, Sierra de la Ventana, Tandil and other cities in the interior. Tren de la Costa, boarding La Plata river.

Distances to La Plata
From Buenos Aires: 52 Km
From Mar del Plata: 363 Km

Distances to Mar del Plata
From Buenos Aires: 404 Km.
From Cordoba: 1120 Km.
From Mendoza: 1506 Km.

What to visit

Sun and Beach

The Pearl of the Atlantic: Mar del Plata.

Mar del Plata, located in the province of Buenos Aires, deserves a special attention. This city was founded more than a century ago. It is the most popular seaside resort in the country. Its Atlantic beaches are visited by more than 3 million of tourists every year.

Seaside resorts in the Atlantic Coast

The Atlantic Cast is full of seaside resorts where the Argentineans, specially the "porteños" (the people from Buenos Aires) spend the summer. Forests, sand banks, fishing boats, beaches, casinos and night life are the main attractions of very known places such as San Clemente del Tuyú, Santa Teresita, San Bernardo, Pinamar, Cariló, Villa Gesell, Miramar and Necochea.

Rural Tourism

Accommodation if very stately, high comfort farm houses, where you can do very typical works of the Argentinean country, watch skills exhibitions from the gauchos and taste the popular barbecues.
In order to know the environment of the Pampa region, it is necessary to visit some farm house or town from this very important agricultural and stockbreeder center that still preserves its paving streets, big houses and 19th century buildings, such as the local store called "La Blanqueada" in the Parque Criollo and the Gauchesco Museum "Ricardo Güiraldes". Nearby, you can see an old watchtower, which was the observation post used to prevent the attacks of the natives. Apart from this you have other farm houses, such as La Bamba, La Porteña, La Cina Cina, Los Patricios, El Ombú and La Oración. At the Tradition Party in San Antonio de Areco (10th of November), the gauchos participate in bright parades and folk shows.

Adventure Tourism

The seaside resorts and main cities in the interior have golf courses, racetracks, circuits, casinos and game preserves. In the south of the province you have walks and horseback riding in the sierras de Tandil y de la Ventana.

Delta of the Parana River

From Tigre ships go to sail the Parana River, a river which is full of islands with exuberant flora and extraordinary fauna.

Sports Tourism

Sports fishing in the Parana river, in lagoons and in the Atlantic coast. Capturing the silverside in the lakeside areas in Chascomús, Lobos, Junín and San Miguel del Monte.
Nautical Sports: sailing, canoeing, paddling, jet ski, water skiing and windsurf.
Horseback riding, polo, golf, hunting, fishing and flora and fauna observation in farm houses.

More info: fly fishing, night fishing.

Religious Tourism

The Basilica of Luján

In the western access, near Km. 71 and crossed by the Luján river we find this city, famous for its impressive gothic Basilica, Argentina's biggest religious sanctuary, with its towers of 106 meters rising over the Pampa plain. An image of the Virgin Mary, the Virgin of Luján is worshiped there since 17th century. This Virgin is known all over the catholic world.
The Basilica of Our Lady of Luján is the pilgrimage center most important of the country. Its Museum Complex is located in the buildings of the Cabildo (the Town Council) and the Viceroy House, and it includes the Colonial and Historical Museums, the Arms Gallery, the Artillery Museum and the Transport Museum.

Cultural Tourism

Natural Sciences Museum-La Plata

It keeps one of the most important paleontological collections of the world.

Other Important Attractions:

San Clemente del Tuyú's Aquarium.

The city of La Plata, the capital of the province of Buenos Aires, shows a harmonious reticular urban plan of an exceptional conception. Founded in 1882, La Plata is a modern city, with green spaces full of flora, several universities, museums and cultural and educational centers that made of it, at the beginning of the 20th century, the meeting place of learned investigators and professors and of students coming from the interior of the country and also from the exterior.

Where to obtain information.
La Plata
Secretaría de Turismo y Deporte de la Provincia de Buenos Aires - Dirección General de Turismo: Calle 12 y 53, Torre II, 13° piso. Tel. (221) 4295553. Fax: (221) 4295554.
Email: info@vivalaspampas.com

Junín
Dirección Municipal de Turismo y Deportes: Av. R. Sáenz Peña 145. Tel. (2362) 444856. Fax: (2362) 444112.
Email: subcom@junin.mun.gba.gov.ar

Lobos
Oficina Municipal de Turismo: Salgado 40. Tel./Fax: (2227) 431450.
Email: subcom@lobos.mun.gba.gov.ar

Luján
2 Oficina Municipal de Turismo: Edificio "La Cúpula", Parque Florentino Ameghino. Tel./Fax: (2323) 428680.
Email: coproturluj@s6.copenet.com.ar

Mar del Plata
Ente Municipal de Turismo, Cultura y Deporte: Belgrano 2740. Tel. (223) 4944140 / 4951777 (Información). Fax: (223) 4942553.
E2mail: turismo@mardelplata.gov.ar
Oficina de Informes Turísticos: Bv. Marítimo 2400, Local 51/52.

Miramar
Ente General Alvarado de Turismo: Calle 28 N° 1086. Tel./Fax: (2291) 420190.
Email: egatur@miramar-digital.com

Monte Hermoso
Secretaría de Turismo: Av. Intendente Majluf 778. Tel./Fax: (2921) 481123.
Email: secturismo@mhermoso.com.ar

Necochea
Dirección Municipal de Turismo: Av. 79 y Av. 2. Tel./Fax: (2262) 425983.
Email: subcom@necochea.mun.gba.gov.ar

Pinamar
Secretaría de Turismo. Av. Bunge 456. Tel./Fax: (2254) 491680.
Email: unestilodevida@pinamar.gov.ar

San Bernardo
Oficina de Turismo: Av. San Bernardo y Calle 19. Tel. (2257) 463027.
Email: info@lacostaturismo.gov.ar

San Clemente del Tuyú
Oficina de Turismo: Calle 2 Nº 2090. Tel. (2252) 430718.
Email: info@lacostaturismo.gov.ar

San Miguel del Monte
Oficina de Turismo: Av. Costanera y Fray Fco. Martínez. Tel. (2271) 421138. Fax: (2271) 442969.
Email: monte@mun.gba.gov.ar

San Nicolás de los Arroyos
Dirección Municipal de Turismo: Av. Alberdi 25. Tel. (3461) 421070.
Email: turismo@sannicolas.mun.gba.gov.ar

Sierra de la Ventana
Dirección Municipal de Turismo: Av. Roca 19. Tel./Fax: (291) 4915303.
Email: info@comarcaturistica.com.ar

Tandil
Dirección Municipal de Turismo: 9 de Julio 555. Tel. (2293) 432073.
Email: tandilturismo@infovia.com.ar

Tigre
Ente Municipal de Turismo: Lavalle y Ricardo Fernández. Tel./Fax: (11) 4512-4497.

Tres Arroyos
Dirección Municipal de Turismo: Brandsen 181. Tel. (2983) 433154, Int. 11. Fax: (2983) 431648.
Email: turismo@tresa.mun.gba.gov.ar

Villa Gesell
Secretaría de Turismo: Buenos Aires y Camino de los Pioneros. Tel. (2255) 457255.
Email: turismo@gesell.com.ar

Buenos Aires
Casa de la Provincia de Buenos Aires: Av. Callao 237. Tel. (11) 4371-7045. Fax: (11) 4375-2993.
Email: turismo@casaprov.gba.gov.ar

Link
www.vivalaspampas.com
www.lacostaturismo.com.ar
www.mardelplata.gov.ar
www.gesell.com.ar

Sources:
Secretaría de Turismo de la Nación
Secretaría de Turismo de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
Ente Municipal de Turismo-Mar del Plata
Secretaría de Turismo y Cultura de la Ciudad de Villa Gesell
Secretaría de Turismo del Partido de la Costa .