Best places to live in Córdoba, Argentina, for life on foot

Districts

Nueva Córdoba

Apartment towers full of students, with shops, bars and cheap places to eat on every block and Parque Sarmiento and the university campus at its edge. Lively and loud, especially at night.

Güemes

Low old houses turned into bars, galleries and design shops, with a craft fair at the Paseo de las Artes on weekends. Walkable to the center, quieter by day than by night.

Cerro de las Rosas

A residential district of houses in the north-west, with shops and restaurants strung along Avenida Rafael Núñez. Away from that avenue most errands need a car.

La Cañada, a stone-walled stream, runs through the center. There is no subte: people get around by bus and trolleybus, on foot or by car, so how much is within walking distance of an address matters more here than in the capital.

Living in Córdoba, Argentina as an expat often starts in Nueva Córdoba, because everything is close and rentals are plentiful, and then moves outward once the noise wears thin. The trade-off is plain: the further toward the hills you go, the greener and quieter it gets, and the longer the walk to a shop or a bus stop. Many shops outside the center also close for the afternoon siesta, so a ten-minute walk to a grocery does not help at three o'clock. Compare a central address with one in the north-west before deciding.