Private Jewish Walking Tour: AMIA, Libertad Synagogue and More

Overview

Led by a born-and-raised Argentine Jewish guide, this tour includes tickets to AMIA, the Libertad Synagogue, and the Jewish Museum, tracing the community's story from colonial times through to the present.

This tour goes beyond a street-level overview — it includes real tickets to AMIA, the Libertad Synagogue, and the Jewish Museum, and is led by a guide from the community itself. Because AMIA requires advance notice of visitors, this tour must be booked at least 72 hours ahead, and your original passport is required on the day. It does not run on the 18th of each month or during community holidays.

Highlights

• Once, Tribunales, and Retiro Walk the real neighborhoods that shaped Argentina's Jewish identity across history and politics.
• AMIA Visit the AMIA community organization's building with included admission.
• Libertad Synagogue Tour Buenos Aires' first synagogue, with admission included.
• Jewish Museum Explore the community's history and heritage at the dedicated museum.

What Stops Does This Tour Make?

A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.

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About This Tour

Led by a born-and-raised Argentine Jewish guide, this tour includes tickets to AMIA, the Libertad Synagogue, and the Jewish Museum, tracing the community's story from colonial times through to the present. This tour goes beyond a street-level overview — it includes real tickets to AMIA, the Libertad Synagogue, and the Jewish Museum, and is led by a guide from the community itself. Because AMIA requires advance notice of visitors, this tour must be booked at least 72 hours ahead, and your original passport is required on the day. It does not run on the 18th of each month or during community holidays.

Templo Libertad is Buenos Aires' oldest synagogue — construction on the current Romanesque Revival building began in 1897 and wasn't finished until 1932, designed by architects Alejandro Enquin and Eugenio Gantner with seating for around 700 worshippers, drawing on the style of mid-19th-century German synagogues. It was declared a National Historic Monument in 2000, and the Jewish Museum of Buenos Aires, founded in 1967 by Dr. Salvador Kibrick, sits right alongside it on Calle Libertad.

AMIA itself carries a much heavier, more recent history. On July 18, 1994, a bomb-laden van was detonated at the organization's headquarters, killing 85 people and injuring more than 300 — the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentine history, and the deadliest attack against a Jewish target outside of Israel since the Holocaust. Argentine federal courts have ruled that Hezbollah carried out the bombing on Iran's orders, a finding Iran has consistently denied; more than three decades on, no one has ever been convicted. Visiting AMIA today — a working community organization, not simply a memorial — means walking through a site that is still central to Buenos Aires' Jewish community and to an unresolved chapter of Argentine history.

Argentina's Jewish community is the largest in Latin America and among the largest outside of Israel and the United States, and its roots in Buenos Aires run back to the 19th century, when the first recorded minyan gathered here for the High Holidays in 1862 — more than a decade before the government formally permitted a rabbinate to practice in the country, in 1876. Walking through Once, Tribunales and Retiro traces that longer arc: a community that grew for well over a century before the AMIA attack, and that has continued to build and rebuild in the decades since.