Day 4 - Markets even I liked, missing restaurants and sexy tango shows.
April 22nd 2007 Another lazy morning before we jumped back on the very good metro and headed to San Telmo. San Telmo used to be a rich area until a yellow fever epidemic in the early part of the 20th century. Big mansions were abandoned and poorer imigrants moved in. Cobblestone streets and on Sundays a huge antique fair that was beyond belief. They had all sorts of amazing things from really old clothes in grea
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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 
