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The City of Buenos Aires
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Population: 12 Million.
Location: Province of Buenos Aires (Capital City).
Buenos Aires is a vibrant and seductive port city that stretches south-to-north along the Rio de la Plata. Astonishingly safe and clean, Buenos Aires is the most elegant and busy metropolis in South America.
It has been the gateway to Argentina for centuries. Porteños, as the multi-national people of Buenos Aires are known, possess a rich cultural identity as they highly value their European heritage; for instance, Italian and German names outnumber the Spanish one, and the lifestyle and architecture are markedly more European than any other city in South America. One of the world's finest opera houses, the Teatro Colón, flourishes here on the plains alongside the river. Porteños are intensely involved in Buenos Aires cultural life, and they will gladly share the secrets of their city if you listen to them and relate your own stories in return.
As one of the most influential cities in South America, Buenos Aires is full of culture. You'll find museums, theatres, cinemas, discos, concerts, fair, festivals and special events offered at all hours, all year long.
The city´s physical structure mosaic is as varied and diverse as its culture. Buenos Aires does not have a dominating monument, or a natural monolith that serves as its focal point. Instead, it is made up of intimate details, many small places, tiny events and interactions, each with a slightly different shape, character and shade. Glass-sheathed skyscrapers cast their slender shadows on 19th century Victorian houses; tango bars hazed with the piquant tang of cigar smoke face dusty, treasure-filled antique shops across the way.
The city's neighbourhoods are tremendously individualised and small, each with its own distinctive forms and colours. In the San Telmo district, the city's multinational heritage is embodied in an assorted and sophisticated architecture: Italian detailing meets Spanish colonial design and artistic French classicism. In the La Boca district, muralist have turned its side streets into colourful avenues while their pressed tin houses have been painted with a rainbow of colours.
Despite all its multicultural diversity, the elusive spirit of Argentina as a country and a nation is present everywhere in Buenos Aires with the tango, its national dance, as perhaps the best expression of that spirit. Buenos Aires is the best place in the world to listen to authentic tango music - and to dance it yourself!
Argentinean tango is practiced in parks, ballrooms, dance halls, and open plazas; it is a dance of common rhythm and intimate separation, combining both an exuberant passion and an elegant reserve.
We are confident you will find Buenos Aires a wonderful place to learn the Spanish language- and live - the Spanish culture!
