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Rosario
City in Santa Fe Province, Argentina

Rosario

Rosario, officially the Autonomous City of Rosario, is a city in central Argentina, in the south of the province of Santa Fe.

Plan a trip to Rosario→From Buenos Aires

Located 300 km (186 mi) northwest of Buenos Aires on the west bank of the Paraná River, it is the country's third-most populous city after Buenos Aires and Córdoba. With a growing and important metropolitan area, Greater Rosario has an estimated population of 1,750,000 as of 2020. One of its main attractions includes the neoclassical, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco architecture that has been preserved in hundreds of residences, houses and public buildings. The city is also famous for being the birthplace of revolutionary Marxist Che Guevara and footballer Lionel Messi.

Get in

Getting to Rosario

There are daily flights (50 min) from Buenos Aires Aeroparque Airport and Ezeiza Airport, although still the more convenient way to get into the city is to hire transport at EZE Airport. It is a four hour trip. There are also flights from/to Brazil, Perú, Panama, and Uruguay. Trenes Argentinos runs a daily train from Buenos Aires.

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    Rosario North
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    Rosario South

    San Martín 6230 (In the southern suburbs).

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    Mariano Moreno
See

Worth seeing

Historical journey through the boulevards, appreciating the city's architectural wealth

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    National Flag Memorial
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    El Che Guevara

    The house where Ernesto Guevara was born.

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    Parque de la Independencia
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    Estadio Gigante de Arroyito

    Rosario Central's home ground hosted matches of the 1978 World Cup.

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    Paseo del Siglo
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    Paseo del Caminante
Do

Things to do

Rosario is swimming with things to do for both tourists and locals. Providing an adventurous variety of services such as: kayaking, biking, skydiving, horseback riding, sailboating, Spanish classes, dance classes in both folklore and tango, guitar and drum classes, as well as capoeira and many others.

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    City Center Rosario

    Rosario is home to the largest casino in South America.

Eat

Where to eat

Rincon Vegetarian Restaurant (Mitre St between Córdoba St and Santa Fe St). For ARS11 you get an all-you-can-eat buffet with all sorts of innovative vegetarian goodies. Good if you want a break from steak.

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    Parrilla la Estancia

    Pellegrini 1510 (Av Pellegrini and España St),.

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    Touche de Creme

    Zeballos 953,.

How locals move

Getting around Rosario the local way

  • Get inThe colorful baby buses (custom-made minibuses) commonly running between Bacoor and Cavite City and Naic ply the main coastal highway which passes through the downtown.

From Wikivoyage: Rosario (Cavite), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see file page), Wikimedia Commons.