Beautiful façade and purple tree!

El Puerto de Nuestra Señora Santa Maria del Buen Aire

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November 10th 2008
Sooo... after a long flight: here we are in El Puerto de Nuestra Señora Santa Maria del Buen Aire, better known as Buenos Aires. 😊 I don´t think I´d remember for long the official/original name. Today we dived into discovering the city. We don´t have much time as tomorrow we are leaving for Puerto Iguazù, so with full list of things to see in our heads we start straight at one of the ... 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