Tigre
The city of Tigre, named after the yaguareté, the american tiger that inhabited the region., is the door to the delta. The city is linked to Buenos Aires by means of a long continuous chain of residential suburbs that extend along the coast. One can travel along a freeway that links Tigre to Buenos Aires in a few minutes or by train from Retiro Station or travel by car along the residential neighborhoods between Buenos Aires and Tigre.
This city lived times of splendour at the end of last century as a center of social activity during the summer months when hotels, luxurious villa and rowing clubs were built.

There are interesting circuits to visit in the Tigre:
1) From the Tourist Office, walking to the right and following Lavalle street, one can see the rowing clubs, the Monument to the Rower, the place where the River Tigre flows into the River Luján. One can also visit the Museo Naval, the Naval Centre and the old Tigre Club which today is a Culture Centre. On the Avenida Liniers we can find large old houses and the Museo de la Reconquista which celebrates the reconquest of Buenos Aires from the British in 1806-1807.

2) From the Tourist Office, walking to the left, after crossing the Av. del Libertador Gral San Martin, and walking along Lavalle street, skirting the River Tigre towards the bridge one gets to the Immaculada Concepción Church ( 1770, in Av. Liniers 1500) and to the old Customs House (Av. Liniers and Esmeralda). Going back to the Av. Liniers towards the Av. of the Libertador, one can admire the façade of Peró House (Av. Liniers 1396) and the Museo de la Prefectura ( Naval Police Museum, Av. Liniers 1264). Along the Av. del Libertador to the right one will find a popular library called Sarmiento, after a president of Argentina. Crossing the Av. of the United Nations one gets to the new station of F.G.B.M.

3) leaving the Tourist Office, towards the left, crossing the Bridge Sacriste on the River Tigre, and turning to the left for Mitre street you arrive at the Delta Station of the Tren de la Costa. Skirting the roads of the train along four blocks until Sarmiento street, and bending towards the left you get to.the Fruit Port.

Other visits in Tigre are the Fruit Market and the Parque de la Costa.

The Fruit Market originated in the thirties, today it is no longer used to sell the production of fruit and wood coming from the delta but rather as an important market for crafts and regional products from rustic furniture to typical ponchos. It is visited by tourists and local residents. Open from Monday to Sunday. The Parque de la Costa is a recent enterprise: it is an amusement center, similar to the most modern ones of the world, including russian mountains and other games and big areas with restaurants and bars.

National Naval Museum
The museum harbours a collection of historical objects, arms, documents, uniforms, maps, sailing instruments, squares and war flags, scale models of all type of ships. It shows in a very clear way, the development of the Argentine National Navy. There are also objects of the 1982 war of the Atlantic. There are numerous artillery pieces and airplanes of the Naval Aviation. Visits: Monday to Thursday from 8.30 to 12.30 - Friday from 8 to 5.30 a.m. - Saturdays and Sundays from10 to 6.30 a.m.. Open the whole year round. Victorica Street 602. Tel: 4749-0608.

Museo de la Reconquista:
It is located in front of the historical place, by the Reconquista River, where on August 4, 1806 Santiago de Liniers and a group of men disembarked, coming from Colonia del Sacramento (Republic of Uruguay). Their purpose was to reconquer Buenos Aires which was in British hands. The museum is in the old house of the Goyechea family, and its rooms are dedicated to the Reconquest and Defense of Buenos Aires. Other rooms have objects which are related to the history of Tigre and its first Church, the Tigre Hotel and Tigre Club. In a building nearby, inaugurated in 1994, there is a library, a museum shop, an administrative office and an auditorium for conferences and recitals with a capacity for 120 people. Visits: Wednesday to Friday from 10am to 6 pm.- Saturdays and Sundays from 2pm to 6pm.Padre Castañeda street 470. Telefax: 4512-4496.

Naval Police Museum
This museum, inaugurated in October 1985, houses the cultural patrimony of the Naval Prefecture. It has six rooms: institutional history; iconography, communications, diving, sailing and aviation; arms and explosives. Visits: Wednesday to Sundays from 10 at 12 and 2 a.m. to 6 a.m.hs. Liniers Street 1264. Tel: 4749-6161

Sarmiento Museum:
This house which belonged to Domingo F. Sarmiento, was built in 1855, and was declared. National Historical Monument. It is located on the river Sarmiento in the first section of islands and it has a collection of objects which belonged to him. In front of the house there is a bust of him and of his mother's Doña Paula Albarracín. Visits: Wednesday to Sundays from 10 to 6 pm..

Tigre Club:
Built in Renaissance style, the building was declared National Historical Monument. The building is being reconstructed and will be a Cultural Centre in the future. At the beginning of the century these living rooms were visited by the most outstanding personalities in the Argentine society and many foreign visitors as well. The first casino of the country worked here, until the year 1933 when it was moved to the city of Mar del Plata.

The Inmaculada Concepción Church
It was built in 1760 with a straw roof and adobe walls. Due to a flood in 1805 it suffered considerable deteriorations and it rested in ramshackle state up to 1820. It was reconstructed in 1821 and again in 1880. Finally in 1945 it was built in colonial style.