Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

The city of Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina and a worldwide metropolis. It is located in the point in which the Rio Paraná becomes the Rio de la Plata opened to the Atlantic Ocean.
The Rio de la Plata and the Riachuelo are the natural limits on the east and south of the city, while on the north and west the avenue general paz. This avenue connects the city with the province of Buenos Aires, a place with a high concentration of population and strong economic activity.
Buenos Aires nowadays is the most important city of Argentina; it’s the economic and political heart, has the main harbor and is the seat of the state government. It is a city full of museums, theaters and historical corners, among them all the ones that stand the most out are the Plaza de Mayo, in which its located la Casa Rosada seat of the Executive branch; the famous Colon Theater, one of the most famous theaters in the world; the cemetery of the Recoleta the oldest and aristocratic one in the continent and the Obelisco, built to celebrate the fourth centenary of the city foundation and where for the first time the Argentinean flag was raised.
It is very popular the neighborhood of La Boca where most of the Italian immigrants of the XIX century established, so different to the San Isidro, a high class residential neighborhood. Other attractions are The Mezquita of Palermo, the biggest Islamic temple in South America and Tierra Santa, the only religious park in continent, where images of Jerusalem of more than 2.000 years old are reproduced.
Many personalities had been born in the city, writers as Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, musical symbols as Carlos Gardel (writer and interpreter of tangos, like “Mi Buenos Aires querido” or “Volver) and the politician Evita.

The city of the tango and football

Among the external symbols of the city we can find The Tango which many architectural works had been dedicated to, one of them is the pedestrian bridge in Puerto Madero made by Santiago Calatrava. This work represents a couple dancing tango where the white mast is the man and the curved figure of the bridge is the woman. This kind of music is heard in every neighborhood of the city, although the most traditional ones are San Telmo and El Abasto.
Also stands out in the city the passion for football, almost half of the Argentinean teams among them the well-known River Plate and Boca Juniors, belong to Buenos Aires.
The Casa Rosada “The Pink House”
This palace known as the Casa Rosada “Pink House”, is the seat of the executive branch. Located where the fortress of Buenos Aires was, is composed by two buildings, no identical, joined by a central arch which can be reached through the Plaza de Mayo. The meaning of the pink colour is that symbolizes the union of two historical oppositte political ideologies, the strong red of the federales and the white of the unitarios.

The Plaza de Mayo

This square is the place in which the city of Buenos Aires was born, in the centre of it there is a white pyramid that holds up the statue of the republic. Opposite to the square is the colonial Cabildo, symbol of the independence and next to it are the Cathedral, the Pink House and some ministries.

The Colon theater and the National library of Argentina

This neoclassic building was inaugurated in 1908 twenty years after was built. Is the biggest and most important one of South America with an attendance of 4200 people. Many concerts, operas and ballet shows are exhibited.
The national library was inaugurated in 1992, in this modern building the famous writer Jose Luis Borges used to write his works. The building is composed by three huge underground deposits and an elevated body supported by four impressive mainstays.

The Colon Theater

National Library

Written by: Daniel Blachere
Posted by: Fernando Cabrera
Translation: Lucas Ensinck
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TANGO

The Tango

Buenos Aires is a province with so many places to be visited, each one with its own attraction to any person, either visitors or not. It’s located in the centre of the country and is the province with the most cultural, social and economic activities, also is the most populated one.As we don’t want to waste the plenty of places Buenos Aires has to offer we will be dedicating a post for each place.

No doubt that tango is the style and dance music that characterizes Argentina the most and even more the region near the Buenos Aires’ harbor and surroundings.
Basically in the orquest, the bandoneon with its particular sound plays an essential part in it.
The language used in the composing of the lyrics is known as “lunfardo”, which means a vulgar expression of feelings and sadness referred to life’s things and love, the suffers and eradication of the immigrants.
On of the most attractive things about this dance is the particular and complex choreography characterized by a series of precise movements made by the couple in which the man is the one who takes the lead of the dance guiding the woman the movements all along the dance.

Places, directions and schedules

Sitios Argentina

Shows at night

Tango City

Buenos Aires

Mi Buenos Aires querido

Caminito “The Path”

A place that nobody should miss is the well know “Caminito” path. It’s located in the neighborhood of La Boca on Garibaldi, Araoz de Lamadrid, del Valle Iberlucea and Magallenes streets.
The path is one of the favorite tours for the Argentineans and visitors. Its name has been given by a famous 1926’s tango wrote by Gabino Coria Peñalosa and Juan de Dios Filiberto.
Its well known because of its epic houses made by chapa and painted with too many colors, many recognized artists painted on them.
In Caminito and surroundings many street show are exhibited and on weekends a market of artesanias occupies the streets.
Other of the attractions in this place are the exhibitions of tango, typical Argentinean dance characterized by its lyrics, music and dance which gets the attraction of the tourists.
Buenos Aires is full of milongas shows, another Argentinean dance, and Argentinean restaurants.

Some of the most recognized milongas can be found in the following:

Buenos Aires Tourism

Written by: Fabian Eckerdt
Posted by: Fernando Cabrera
Translation: Lucas Ensinck
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