Tango dancers (26 K)

Buenos Aires
From its beginnings Buenos Aires, together with the surroundings that constitute Greater Buenos Aires grew and became a great metropolis of more than 12 million inhabitants.
Each neighbourhood, integrated the city but kept its own peculiarities and caracteristics. These peculiarities were those that gave origin to the typical inhabitant of Buenos Aires: the porteño, called this way due to the decisive influence of the port.
A bridge between America and Europe, Buenos Aires can look like Madrid in the Avenida de Mayo, Paris in the Avenida Alvear, Berlin in Palermo, London in its railway stations, Budapest in the old city or Naples in La Boca.
Much can be said about the intense cultural life, the multitude of shows and artistic offer of Buenos Aires. Artists from all over the world come to perform in Buenos Aires.
For those who are tempted with shopping, Buenos Aires offers, not only international brands in fashion, but also a varied range of local designs of very high quality and its traditional leather manufacture.
The cafés of Buenos Aires mark one of the distinctive features of its society. It is the environment where good part of its social life takes place.
Buenos Aires has a net of transport made up of a very extended service of buses (called colectivos) and of a net of underground.

The centre, what is known as "the city", is growing towards Catalinas and Puerto Madero, these neighbourhoods concentrate on economic activity, the main banks and financial entities.

Vista de la Ciudad (44 K)

The Argentine Capital City presents itself in all its variety and with a long list of places of interst.
Downtown, what is known as the "city porteña" grows constantly and it includes modern neighbourhoods such as Catalinas and Puerto Madero, which concentrate on business and where the principal banks and enterprises , both national and international have come together.
Embedded in this sector are restaurants and the best hotels.
The Plazas de Mayo y de los dos Congresos linked by the magnificent Avenida de Mayo, they form the government centre both executive and legislative powers.
The neighbourhood of San Telmo still has the atmosphere of the first years of the history of the city. There, artisans and antique dealers have their fair every Sunday in the main square, Plaza Dorrego.
In the Recoleta, and Retiro and the northern neighbourhoods live the wealthier people.

Caminito in La Boca  (34 K)

To the north, Palermo, one of the most extended neighbourhoods in the city, although divided in three sectors each one with its own characteristics, they harmonize like an indivisible entirety. An area with wide green parks, which include artificial lakes, the Botanical Garden, the Zoo and the Rosedal (rose garden), it forms the biggest lung of the city. Palermo Chico is a distinguished residential area occupied by luxurious mansions and diplomatic headquarters. And finally Palermo Viejo, simple quarter immortalised by Borges, today also known as Villa Freud, because it is the area where many psychologists live.
La Boca and the popular Caminito is one of the most picturesque neighbourhoods in the city, where the immigrant from Genoa built his houses with foils and other materials that came as ballast in the ships that came in search of agricultural products.