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Day and night suggestions for enjoying your stay in Buenos Aires include daytime excursions, tango shows, nightclubs, shopping, sightseeing suggestions and other enjoyable activities.
Tango Shows in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tango is part of the heart and soul of Buenos Aires. Visitors to the city can take in a tango show, learn the dance at a tango salon and marvel at the senuous and passionate moves of the dancers.
La Boca, the Most Colorful Barrio in Buenos Aires
The La Boca barrio, or neighborhood, in Buenos Aires, grew up on the bank of the Riachuelo, a narrow canal where meat packers and warehouses serviced the city. Italian immigrants found a home here, and their hastily erected tin houses formed the basis of the residential area. Caminito, a pedestrian street named for the famous tango, leads visitors past mulit-hued houses and shops in what is now a tourist attraction and an artist's colony.
Things to Do and See in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Buenos Aires is a city with deep anchors to the past and the ethnic and cultural heritages of its residents, but it is also the center of business, government and progressive development. Called the "Paris of the South," Buenos Aires is sophistication, sensual, and filled with things to do and see.
Getting To Buenos Aires
Ways and means of getting to the city by land, air and water from Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil and Chile.
Popular Restaurants in Buenos Aires
Restaurants in Buenos Aires are plentiful, with a wide assortment of menus and cuisines. Beef is still king in Argentina, and you can expect excellent steaks and meats, but you can also find international and specialty cuisine, particularly Italian and Mediterranean, reflecting the ethnic heritage of many Argentines.
A Walk through Recoleta Cemetery
A Walk through Recoleta Cemetery
Teatro Colon
Join guest author Les Inglis on a visit to Buenos Aire's venerable, and spectacular opera house.
Buenos Aires Milongas
The site includes tango history, terminology, personalities, international sites as well as location in Buenos Aires, music and orchestras.
Argentinian Tango
History of the dance, dance shows, concerts, tango associations, museums and tango sightseeing.
Buenos Aires Photos
Click on the thumbnails for a larger view.
Buenos Aires Tango
"In this Site you will find all the TANGO of Buenos Aires: milongas, teachers, places where to learn how to dance and the tango shows in Buenos Aires. Cultural exhibitions such as Art, literature, theatre, articles and essays connected with Tango. How to make the best tango tour in Buenos Aires."
Buenos Aires Tango
"Buenos Aires is known internationally for being the city where tango music and dance was nurtured and where, nowadays, its is mainly confined to shows for tourists."
Cena Show
Buenos Aires by night: the Supper, or Cena Show, bars, tango shows, nightclubs, restaurants, package tours, excursions from the city, plus hotel and business listings.
Buenos Aires Tango
"In this Site you will find all the TANGO of Buenos Aires: milongas, teachers, places where to learn how to dance and the tango shows in Buenos Aires. Cultural exhibitions such as Art, literature, theatre, articles and essays connected with Tango. How to make the best tango tour in Buenos Aires."
Cuisine & Nightlife
An introduction form interknowledge.com.
Entertainment
"Buenos Aires offers a wide variety of entertainment: cinemas, classical music concerts, ballet, opera, rock concerts, alternative performances, comedy shows, theater, long nights of tango, sporting events, and last but not least; Argentineans passion: football (soccer)."
EventGuide Buenos Aires: Annual Events Overview
An overview of the major events in the Buenos Aires area, including sports, tango, book festivals, arts and crafts, art, music and gay pride.
Fast Food Restaurants
Directory for the Buenos Aires area.
Fotos de Buenos Aires
Click on a photo for a gallery of images about different facets of the city.
Learning the Tango in Argentina
Learn Spanish and the tango with this language school's curriculum.
M&A Buenos Aires Restaurant
Directory to restaurants by ethnic cuisine vegetarian and other categories.
Mercado a Termino
Financial site in English Spanish and Portuguese.
Michelangelo
Dinner and tango show in San Telmo is a popular evening out.
Milonga Hostel
This hostel and student residence also offers bar discounts and tango lessons.
Opera Pampa
Opera Pampa is an outdoor theater on horseback that features more than 20 authentic gauchos, 26 hard-galloping horses and a troupe of dancers. The production brings rural Argentine traditions into the heart of a sophisticated city where designer heels are more common than cowboy boots, and only the police ride horses.
Portal de Tango
Everything you want to know about tango: where to watch, learn, participate in Buenos Aires and other locations; festivals, competitions, museums, shopping and milongas. In Spanish.
Restaurants
Directory for the Buenos Aires area.
Teatro Colon
Grand theater opened in 1908 now offers an online tour of the costumes sets as well as actual guided tours and an onsite library. In Spanish.
Yacht Club Argentino
With information about Buenos Aires Week I.S.A.F. Championship included in World Sailing Rankings.

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