Cordoba!!!What's to say about Cordoba? Not much. It is the second industrial center of Argentina, but retains many of its historical buildings dating from the colonial era. El Centro (Spanish for "downtown") is the most important commercial area, with clothes, food, hardware, fishing equipment, shoes, computer shops, etc., but also most surprisingly, this city has the biggest concentration of "hotels by the hour". These are hourly rate hotels where people take their secret lovers for a romp in the good old proverbial hay. they vary from cheap establishments to the deluxe option with wall-to-wall mirrors, jaccuzis.... Use your imagination! these deluxe versions are a part of under the table Argentine culture that is very well disguised. Anyway, we didn´t get to experience these "love by the hour hotels" ( prices way out of a backpackers budget
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