This guided tour will show you the city of Buenos Aires, focusing on one of its most famous female leaders, Eva “Evita” Peron.
Peron (1919-1952) was a village girl who came to the big city to fulfill her dream to be an actress, and she did. In 1944, at a charity gala, she met Colonel Juan Perón and married him the following year. After he won the presidential election in Argentina, she became First Lady.
She served as First Lady for six years until she died from cancer, becoming one of the greatest leaders of Argentina. She promoted women’s suffrage, women in politics, labor and health reforms, and founded the charitable Eva Perón Foundation and the first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party.
Among the places you will visit on tour are Peron’s final resting place in her famous mausoleum at Recoleta Cemetery, the Evita Museum in Palermo, which review her life story and showcases many of her personal belongings, and the Casa Rosada, the pink house where she gave many speeches.
