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Touring the City

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February 21st 2007
We spent one day touring Buenos Aires in an organized tour, seeing a modern European style city with wide streets, beautiful parks, Eva Peron’s grave in a cemetery with lots of interesting mausoleums, a beautiful national Cathedral. A highlight was a visit to a very colorful area of the city which is now populated by artists. Originally it had been very poor and the folks painted their corru ... read more

South America » Argentina » 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