Microcentro / Monserrat is the political and financial core: Casa Rosada at Plaza de Mayo, the Cabildo, banks, and endless suits at lunch. Avenida de Mayo carries cafes with marble tables, wooden booths, and chandeliers that survived coups and crises. Corrientes glows with theater marquees and bookstores that stay open past midnight.
Obelisco marks the center of the skyline and the constant flow of buses. After office hours, pedestrian streets like Florida empty, leaving street vendors and musicians under fading neon. Protests and celebrations both gather here; horns echo between towers.
Historic churches and covered passages hide between office blocks, and a short walk leads to San Telmo's cobblestones. Duck into a passage or a confiteria and you can watch the city's contradictions sit together at the same counter.