I enjoyed my tour of this old family mansion that was built on top of old tunnels and was later used as tenement housing after the family abandoned it when yellow fever hit the area. The building was beautiful and the tour provided a great history lesson on the city of Buenos Aires. On the English tour we had an American girl (me), two Australian girls, an older French couple, and a younger Brazilian couple. The Brazilian husband had to translate for his wife but got bored of that after five minutes and the two mostly wandered around by themselves. I don't think the French couple understood much and they too were soon giving a tour to themselves. The two Australian girls were very attentive and asked a lot of questions. A LOT of questions. At first I thought they must be students and doing the tour for a school assignment, but neither of them were taking notes. Then I thought perhaps they were testing the knowledge of our tour guide, but they seemed genuinely interested and the questions weren't malicious (although I think that forcing someone to answer that amount of questions has got to be at least a little malicious). I decided that they must have just been trying to figure out what exactly they spent twenty-five pesos to go on a tour of. The Lonely Planet city guide book lists it as one of the top five museums to visit in Buenos Aires--just go with it.
They offer tours during the day and then in the evenings they rent the place out for private events. Can't you just picture a long banquet table running through here?
The tunnels twist around under the city for blocks with more still being excavated.
I enjoyed my tour of this old family mansion that was built on top of old tunnels and was later used as tenement housing after the family abandoned it when yellow fever hit the area. The building was beautiful and the tour provided a great history lesson on the city of Buenos Aires. On the English tour we had an American girl (me), two Australian girls, an older French couple, and a younger Brazilian couple. The Brazilian husband had to translate for his wife but got bored of that after five minutes and the two mostly wandered around by themselves. I don't think the French couple understood much and they too were soon giving a tour to themselves. The two Australian girls were very attentive and asked a lot of questions. A LOT of questions. At first I thought they must be students and doing the tour for a school assignment, but neither of them were taking notes. Then I thought perhaps they were testing the knowledge of our tour guide, but they seemed genuinely interested and the questions weren't malicious (although I think that forcing someone to answer that amount of questions has got to be at least a little malicious). I decided that they must have just been trying to figure out what exactly they spent twenty-five pesos to go on a tour of. The Lonely Planet city guide book lists it as one of the top five museums to visit in Buenos Aires--just go with it.
They offer tours during the day and then in the evenings they rent the place out for private events. Can't you just picture a long banquet table running through here?
The tunnels twist around under the city for blocks with more still being excavated. 
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that looks super cool. I could see a sweet game of 'hide and go seek' down there...
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