Arte y Esperanza

Buenos Aires


This store sells fair-trade, handmade products by Argentina’s indigenous craftspeople. It's an excellent place to shop for silver jewelry, pottery, ceramics, textiles, mate gourds, baskets, woven bags and wooden utensils.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Buenos Aires attractions

1. Museo Etnográfico Juan B Ambrosetti

0.07 MILES

This worthwhile anthropological museum was created as an institute for research and university training – and as an educational center for the public. On…

2. Ministerio de Economía

0.09 MILES

In June 1955 Argentine naval aircraft strafed Plaza de Mayo in the first step of a military coup, killing more than 300 civilians who were gathered in…

3. Museo de la Ciudad

0.1 MILES

This small museum was closed for ongoing renovations at the time of research, but in the future you should expect exhibitions on porteño life and history…

4. Farmacia de la Estrella

0.1 MILES

The Farmacia de la Estrella (1835) is a functioning homeopathic pharmacy with gorgeous woodwork and elaborate late-19th-century ceiling murals depicting…

5. Museo Casa Rosada

0.13 MILES

Behind the Casa Rosada, look for a glass wedge: it's the roof of this bright and airy museum, housed within the brick vaults of Argentina's old aduana …

6. Casa Rosada

0.15 MILES

The Casa Rosada was named for its distinctive color. It was from the balcony here, at the presidential palace, that Eva Perón famously addressed the…

7. Edificio Libertador

0.16 MILES

Towering above the Casa Rosada, just south of Parque Colón on Av Colón, is the army headquarters at the Edificio Libertador, the real locus of Argentine…

8. La Librería de Avila

0.17 MILES

The city's oldest bookstore – there has been a bookshop on this historic corner site since 1785 – has a number of rare and antique texts as well as recent…