I have a passion for the Argentine capital, perhaps it was understood by the various posts that I spent with the words of one who loves her. Here's a nice guide Robert Mur de La Vanguardia of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwho has a blog from Buenos Aires. In the original language can be found here
I Baires querido
The Obelisk, Avenida 9 de Julio, the Plaza de Mayo, Casa Rosada, Puerto Madero, Recoleta and its graveyard, barrio de la Boca, Caminito, the Bombonera, the Calle Florida shopping, dinner and tango show in San Telmo la calle Corrientes and its theaters, the night of Palermo, Subte, the boat trip on the Tigre ... All these stereotypes are part of Buenos Aires most tourists, what the visitor expects to find at the first encounter with this amitie city, always at the world through the collective Peron, Gardel, Maradona and Evo's "do not cry for me Argentina ". But, as with any big city, cosmopolitan and mixed race, there are many other Buenos Aires, beyond the more typical.
There's probably a different city each porteño and every stranger who ends up seduced, abducted, or rather, by what is without doubt the cultural capital of South America, with the permission of São Paulo.
Besides the antique shops of San Telmo Sunday market or on Defensa street of the historic district, the capital of Argentina has a countless number of markets far from the tourist bus route. Market places generally in and around the many parks distributed in Baires, abbreviation with which he usually writes the name of the city in colloquial language.
In one of the inputs of Centennial Park, recently restored, you can find used book stands that are open daily. Inside the fence porteños sunbathe and relax beside the pond, while the geese to avoid going under the water jets in a corner, three girls play with a modern, urban furniture accessory. An inevitable living statue, as in other parks, entertaining children.
At eight blocks, or Cuadras, as they say in these parts, there is the Parque Rivadavia. Go on foot. Buenos Aires is a city to walk, perhaps the most European of American capital, with Montevideo. The trace its buildings and its aura reminiscent of Paris and at other times Madrid moments in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwith the humid climate created by the Rio de la Plata. Also in the parque Rivadavia there are stands of used books and magazines. One is devoted almost exclusively to El Gráfico, a prestigious Argentine sports magazine founded in 1919, one of the oldest publications on the continent. Hung, you see a whole collection of photos covers monopolized by the great football idol, Diego Armando Maradona. If you look a bit 'between piles and piles of magazines you can find the number which speaks of the passage of Pelusa to Barça.
Careful with pictures to Rivadavia, you can look bad. Many stands of books have given way to most popular products such as software, film or CD, of course, all pirated. The Centenary
Rivadavia and are in Caballito, one of its most traditional neighborhoods of the capital and at the same time, one of the less frequented by tourists.
There are other parks and markets. Patricios in the park, located in the same name and near the Barracas, another very popular, every Sunday there is a craft market, as well as drama and mime outdoors, especially for children. Crafts, as well as antiques, you can meet the Parque Chacabuco. And another area is the Parque Avellaneda, with a more urban. In contrast to this park every Sunday exhibitions at Feria de Mataderos allow to know the local and rural traditions, close the same building that until a few years ago served as slaughterers.
already out of Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, which will be governed by the current president from December of Boca Juniors, Mauricio Macri, another popular market is held, to Frutos de Tigre, which sells mostly basketry. If you want to mix
porteños , move the colectivo, called here as the city buses. They cover the whole city, home to 3 million people, and part of the metropolitan area, called the Buenos Aires conurbation , inhabited by 10 million people.
Public transport is still very cheap. The colectivo costs 80 cents (0.18 €), the Subte, that would be the subway costs 70 cents (0.16 €) and the taxi 2.60 pesos (0.60 €). However, do not trust, charges for all public transport are frozen, but there is latent inflation, masked by official statistics. In the streets
porteño pessimist complains about the middle class, with reason, the increased cost of living. For a European, the difference in the exchange is still beneficial, but who has come in recent years will see the evolution. Argentina is no longer living the crisis of 2001, economic growth has been spectacular and Buenos Aires is fashionable, especially for foreigners. Rental prices are going up in residential areas, central as a foam, which is still a meaningful indicator. Many porteños are renovating their old property, looking for a foreigner who earn a good return in dollars, something unthinkable just a few years ago. So if you plan to go to Buenos Aires, before you do, the better for your wallet.
In Palermo, where you can find most of the night fashion Buenos Aires, the passer-by discovered every day a new restaurant or a commercial property. The two most fashionable places, where you can eat, drink a glass and, finally, to dance, are the "Casa Cruz, quiet, and the" y Kim Novak "rogue really. For Palermo has become a hard San Telmo competitor, the true center of Buenos Aires, which is enjoying a vogue, and real estate is undergoing a restructuring process similar to that of Lavapies in Madrid or Barcelona in the Raval. There is Museum, an old Ferreria transformed into a nightclub, where only every Wednesday evening produces what is called "after-office". Tight clothes "office" require the brochures that announced this local fashion.
Although the Abasto is the district and Gardel tango par excellence, San Telmo is where you'll find most of the tourist restaurants with show included. But, if you will not find tourists who dance, go to the Barrancas de Belgrano, a square where during At weekends you can dance and play the tango in the street. The bar Homero, in Palermo Viejo, or the tango "Lo de Roberto, Almagro, are other places where the Argentine dance par excellence is steeped in atmosphere.
hour of shopping, forget the decadent Florida Street and look for other shopping centers. is one of the busiest in the vicinity of Juramento and Cabildo (ie the intersection of two roads, so that, with the conjunction, is how to indicate the addresses to Baires). To buy clothes you go to Cordoba and Scalabrini Ortiz. And if you want to buy the famous leather articles of the country, go to Scalabrini Ortiz y Warnes.
To eat is not necessary to recommend restaurants where serve the traditional asado, because they are in every corner, but if you want to discover a fun variant of parrilla, when you visit Puerto Madero, do not come back by bus tourists. Continue towards the river and Costanera discover some tiny food stands, carritos, call them, who distribute and economic sqisiti sandwiches of roasted meat. Looking for a wagon that is called "Mi sueño" de bondiola and ask for a sandwich with lemon. You will not regret.
Universidad Popular de las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, the Hippodrome, the mosque in Buenos Aires, the Faena hotel singular, the twelve first theatrical weekly or route imaginary Mafalda, perhaps speaking in other chronicles. But
do not waste time looking for the casino or porteños scenarios in which Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford turned Gilda, because that Buenos Aires B & W has existed only in the furniture of the Hollywood studios
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