You might have even heard about it: Evita, Maradona (and Madonna playing Evita), Che Guevara, the sexy Tango dance, the greatest meat in the world, El Mate, European architecture mixed with modern skyscrapers, great prices, and very beautiful people! So in case you are still thinking of your next trip, make up your mind, come to South America's cultural capital and feel for your self the so-called Paris of Latin America!!! You will fall in love with it!
Located in the south cone of South America, Argentina is a country with around 40 million inhabitants. The country has everything a tourist might want for their trip: glamour, mountains, glaciers, waterfalls, beaches, deserts, rivers, loneliness, crowds, fantastic prices...all in one and the way in to Argentina and the continent is Buenos Aires. By the end of the 19th century and early the 20th century there had been a huge immigration from Europe, mainly Spanish and Italian people running away from poverty and wars. By then the country was one of the richest in the word and its huge spaces and culture captivated the foreign crowds; the population soared so quickly that by 1887 for 100 Argentines there were 112 foreigners. This is the reason why the Spanish spoken in Buenos Aires (aka Castellano) is quite mellifluous, so you might even ask yourself "is this really Spanish or is it an Italian dialect???" The population in central Buenos Aires nowadays ascends to 3 million people and the greater city has more than 12 million people.
Buenos Aires City Map: http://mapa.buenosaires.gov.ar/sig/index.phtml
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