La Boca – a neighborhood in Buenos Aires | Photo: Eddy Ancinas
Buenos Aires, home for one-third the population of Argentina (13 million people) is the gateway to all the splendors of Argentina. Tango, soccer, opera, art galleries and street fairs, cafí©s, shopping and dining in all the different neighborhoods are some of the city’s most pleasant pursuits.
Where to go on Sundays: San Telmo,
a popular Buenos Aires neighborhood
where they tango in the streets
Photo: Eddy Ancinas
As you explore the parks and plazas, wide avenues and narrow cobblestone streets, look up at the art deco, art nouveau, gothic and stately Parisian facades; and you will know why Buenos Aires is known as “The Paris of South America.â€
With British formality, Parisian style, Italian spontaneity and a Spanish soul, the city and the people have their own unique identity — as different from their fellow countrymen and the rest of Latin America as are the lonely windswept plains of Patagonia from this cosmopolitan capital.