The Cathedral

El Centro - Buenos Aires

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December 12th 2007
EL CENTRO - BUENOS AIRES We spent our first full day in Buenos Aires in El Centro, its downtown, which can arguably be considered a neighbourhood though, municipally speaking, it is comprised of parts of three barrios, Monserrat, Tribunales and San Nicholas. We navigated ourselves to Centre Ville by using the Subte, the Subway, built by the British in 1913, therefore running under the wron ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more