Having a beer in a Tango Bar in San Telmo

BEAUTIFUL BUENOS AIRES

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December 27th 2009
We write this following a wonderful and relaxing first week in Buenos Aires. We stayed in a hotel suite right in downtown for 4 nights as our apartment wasn't available until the 23rd December. It gave us a chance to explore downtown at leisure. Our first day was a Sunday so everything downtown was closed. The place to go was San Telmo and to get there we took a grotty train from a grott ... read more

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » La Plata

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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