Buenos Aires
Capital Of Argentina And An Autonomous City; Its Historic Centre Is A National Historic Area. Not A UNESCO Site; Tango Was Inscribed On The Intangible Cultural Heritage List In 2009 · Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the great European-built city of South America: Parisian boulevards, Italian food, Spanish grids and a population that talks, eats and dances late into the night. The historic heart is the Plaza de Mayo, where the pink Casa Rosada faces the colonial Cabildo and the cathedral that holds the tomb of San Martin, and from it Avenida de Mayo runs west past grand cafes to the Congress. Beyond, the city is a set of barrios with their own characters: San Telmo's cobbles and Sunday antiques fair, La Boca's painted tin houses and its football stadium, Recoleta's mansions and the cemetery where Evita lies, Palermo's parks, bars and restaurants. Tango was born here and it is still danced for real in neighbourhood milongas, not only in dinner shows. It is a city of bookshops, steak, theatre and politics, all of it visible on the street, and the economy swings so hard that prices can change within a month. Most visitors plan three days and wish they had a week.
Plaza de Mayo, San Nicolas, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, C1002, Argentina
A city that runs late: shops open mid-morning, lunch is at one or two, dinner begins after nine and restaurants fill at ten. Museums generally close on Mondays or Tuesdays. The San Telmo fair is on Sundays. Milongas start around eleven at night and run until the small hours.