Our hotel - Hotel Colon, in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires: the City of beef, maté and the Tango

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May 20th 2010
After having gotten to know Buenos Aires, with its decadent architecture, variety of restaurants and its boutique shops, I could fully understand why it is known as “The Paris of the South”. With a population of 13 million, in a country with only 40 million residents, it really is a sprawling metropolis, but the city centre itself is rather conveniently compact. Our bus from Cordoba arrived ... read more

South America » Argentina » Buenos Aires » Buenos Aires

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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