 | Buenos Aires Today Buenos Aires is a hotbed of everything you can imagine in a city. Although it covers a vast area, most of the tourist destinations are concentrated within 5 inner barrios and these are therefore the most crowded. On weekdays, business people are everywhere, with their expensive leather cases and shoes, walking past beggars on the streets without a second glance. The city is trade hub, being a large political power in Latin America and the world. Food is given a lot of importance and you will see rich and poor alike congregate for a good meal, particularly if it is parilla. Strong |
 | Buenos Aires Back Then Buenos Aires was not the first city to be established in Argentina, it was not used by the indigenous hunter-gatherer peoples as a settlement either. In 1535 however, Pedro Medoza a, Spanish aristocrat set up a port in the natural harbor created by the river delta. The Spanish then steadily colonized the area and Buenos Aires grew as a farming and trading community. However, Salta, Tucumán, Córdoba, and other Argentinian settlements were of more importance until the late 1700s. In 1776, while the whole area was still under Spanish rule, Buenos Aires was declared the capital of t |
 | Alvear Palace Hotel Alvear Palace Hotel, Avenida Alvear 1891, 1129 Ciudad De Buenos Aires Telephone:  Hilton Buenos Aires | Location: Hilton Buenos Aires, Avenida Macacha Güemes 351, Buenos Aires, <  Hotel Bel Air | Hotel Bel Air, Arenales 1462 Telephone: 4021 4000 Fax:  Hotel de Diseño | Hotel de Diseño, Marcelo T. de Alvear 1695, Tel: 5237 3100  Hotel NH Jousten | Location: Hotel NH Jousten, Avda. Corrientes, 280. Buenos Aires, Tel  Atlas Tower Hotel | Location: Av. Corrientes 1778, Buenos Aires. Telephone/Fax: |
 | Buenos Aires Design This is a high class shopping mall entirely dedicated to interior design. A good place to find Europ |  | Falabella This chain department store has the best in anything you want. Cosmetics, clothes, house wares, it |
 | Gloria Lópes Sauqué This beautiful leather design gallery is the showroom for the items by famous Argentinian designer G |  | Alto Palermo Shopping Mall the biggest shopping centre in the city, also located in Palermo. It has a daring architectural desi |
 | Paseo Alcorta shopping center Paseo Alcorta shopping center in Palermo is small but makes up for its size with sophistication. It |  | The Microcentro In the Microcentro, the Avenue Santa Fe is the site of hundreds of shops which mainly sell gifts and |
 | Buenos Aires Fashion Week Normally held in the last week of February, and again in August for the summer collections, Fashion |  | Fiesta de las Murgas With its own unique flavor, the Mardi Gras festival is different in Buenos Aires than in anywhere el |
 | Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente (BAFICI) The independent film festival in Buenos Aires is held every April and showcases local and internatio |  | Creamfields Buenos Aires This large dance music festival is organized every November at a football ground in the Costanera Su |
 | Personal Fest This is one of the major Argentinian music festivals, the place for local bands to get heard and for |  | Arte Buenos Aires A contemporary art fair, Arte BA is celebrated in the La Rural Exhibition Centre between the 11th an |
 | La Bourgogne This classy restaurant is part of the Alvear Palace hotel and is one of the best in Buenos Aires. A |  | La Pharmacie Renovated from an old pharmacy, this restaurant is just the right combination of perfect atmosphere |
 | Bar 6 A complete restaurant offering the highest quality meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner. In the lat |  | Al paso Restaurants When you are exploring the city, you’ll realize there are many al paso (walk through) restaurants |
 | Bo Bo This is part of the Bo Bo hotel and a warm, inviting place to go for a relaxed dinner or lunch. Some |  | El Farol Go here to get the flavor of what a typical porteño likes to eat. There are large portions, lots of |
 | Fast Facts -Location: Buenos Aires (literally ‘fair winds’) is located on the southeastern coast of the South American continent. It is the capital and largest city of Argentina, which is the second largest country in South America and the eighth largest in the world. Argentina (from the Latin word for silver, ‘argentum’) shares land borders with Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia and Chile, and is surrounded on the east and south by the Atlantic Ocean. Buenos Aires city is located inside the province of Buenos Aires, but is an autonomous federal district. It consists of 48 barrios or neighbourhoods. It is situated in what is called the Rio de la Plata (River of silver), where the Uruguay and Parana rivers combine and join the Atlantic Ocean. The large historic port gives the people of Buenos Aires their name: porteños -Dialing code: country +54 city: 11, then an eight digit subscriber number. To call other districts from Buenos Aires, dial 0, the district code, then the 8-digit number. Cell phones are more expensive to call than landlines and normally begin with a 15, followed by the 8-digit number. Calling a cell phone in another area (i.e. not Buenos Aires) would require you to dial that district code, then 15, then the 8-digit number -Emergency numbers Police: 911 |
