Buenos Aires is a city over close to 14million people and is often called the “Paris of South America”. Walking around the streets you see a mixture of architecture from France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and even the USA.
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| The paper mache figures on the balcony are from left to right Maradonna who is an idol in this country, Eva Peron and Carlos Gardel a famous singer of Tango. |
This area has now been made very touristic as thousands of people visit every day to watch the Tango Dancers in the streets.
The colourful buildings of the La Boca district were started by an artist who had a vision to brighten the port area, it quickly took off and now most of the buildings which are made from corrugated iron are painted in bright colours.
In the 1940’s the city was a political stage for General Juan Peron and his wife Evita Duarte Peron who was loved by the working class for her middle of the road position between capitalism and communisim. The Casa de Rosa ( pink palace) was made famous for the speeches given by Evita from the balcony.
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| The Pink Palace where both Juan &Eva Peron gave political speeches |
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| Argentinians are great meat eaters so we visited a BBQ restaurant, amazing to sit in a restaurant that has an open BBQ and have great hunks of meat sliced off a whole pig or lamb
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| A coffee in Buenos Aires includes a glass of orange juice, a glass of mineral water con gas (with gas) and 2 wonderful biscuits all for about $4 |
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| The bbq suckling pig we had for dinner |
My John would be envious of the coffee stops and would probably like to try the suckling pig. Seems as though the weather has been good to you so far.
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