Argentina´s Bicentennial Celebration
... the Fair of the Provinces there will be a booth symbolizing the Nation, organizer of the festivities, and one for the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, home of the May Revolution of 1810.
At Paseo de los Sabores (Walk of Flavours) each province and each community will market their products and typical native gastronomic products, as preserves, sausages, sweets, dishes, oils, liqueurs, etc.
More so, there will be six Thematic Portals that will function as gateways to the Walk, and in which artists...
May 4th, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 3Filed under: Anniversary party, argentina, Buenos Aires, festivities, History & Information
El MALBA – A Must See Art Museum
Buenos Aires is a very cultural and cosmopolitan city, full of all sorts of museums. Among several art museums I like the most is el MALBA(Muséo de Arte LatinoAmericano de Buenos Aires).
It opened its doors on September 21, 2001. It is a not-for-profit institution featuring the Costantini Collection. This permanent collection consists of a selection of more than two hundred artworks, including drawings, paintings, sculptures and objects by artists from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica,...
May 2nd, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 2Filed under: argentina, art museum, Buenos Aires, Latin America, The Arts
Carlitos, The Pancake King!!!
El Amanecer de Carlitos is by far one of the best places to enjoy a great breakfast in Buenos Aires, Argentine style. It has become a classic spot, no doub.
It offers more than 700 combinations of panqueques (pancakes) (salty and sweet ones), some custom made. I would kill to get the recipe for the dough, it is so soft and foamy!!! Make sure you have a dulce de leche pancake, if not you will never be able to say you’ve been there! That’s the one to get. If it is “quemado al...
April 28th, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: argentina, Buenos Aires, food and beverage, pancakes, villa gesell
Feel Like a Porteño, Ride the Colectivo
Getting around Buenos Aires by subway or taxi is easy, but taking the bus can be a bit of a challenge. Colectivos are buses and buses are everywhere.
There are more than 150 different lines in the city with different routes that will take you basically wherever you want to go. Colectivos are a great way to go. They run 24 by 7, though service at night is less frequent. All colectivos within the city cost $1.10 pesos (which is less that 40 cents USD) for a single fare. They take coins only…no...
March 19th, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 5Filed under: Buenos Aires, bus system, featuredarticle, public transportation
El Viejo Almacén: The Temple of Tango
... well. With time, tango songs and the dance itself started gaining everyone’s heart and soul.
Tango cafés are an important part of the life of Buenos Aires. While Café Tortoni is the most famous of the old-fashioned, elegant tango clubs in the city, it could sometimes get crowded and filled with loads of people coming, going, ordering coffee and cake, and snapping photos.
However, El Viejo Almacén is a good alternative if you want to see a tango show. This tango place is housed in one...
March 16th, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Buenos Aires, dance, featuredarticle, history, music, san telmo, Tango
Tangos y Milongas
Buenos Aires is the birthplace and the world capital of the Tango, a rhythm that was created by the banks of the Rio de la Plata at the end of the 19th century, as a fusion of European and African music.
The tango is manifested in the lyrics (many of the words used in the tango come from lunfardo or porteños’ slang); in the music (the bandoneon provided the music from the Rio de la Plata with that melancholic and somewhat sullen sound that characterizes tango today); and in the dance.
You...
March 13th, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 5Filed under: Buenos Aires, dance, milonga, music, Tango
Tango… How Did It All Began
... think about Argentina, they think about Tango. Well, somehow it is true, Tango and Tango dancing is in the very soul of Argentina, specially in Buenos Aires.
Tango has a long history, and many stories. It is believed that the starting point for the Tango was the decade of 1880 by the Rio de la Plata as a form of entertainment for the many labourers of European descent who settled in the poorer areas of Buenos Aires as they tried to make their fortune in the New World. Since they had left their loved...
March 11th, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Buenos Aires, dance, featuredarticle, History & Information, music, Tango
Teatro Catalinas Sur – A Unique Theater Experience
If a tourist with only one more day to spend in Buenos Aires asked me where to go, my advice would be to go see El Grupo de Teatro Catalinas Sur, at El Galpón de Catalinas. Located right in the heart of the barrio de La Boca, a typical port area where working-class Italian immigrants traditionally came to live in the early 1900′s, El Grupo de Teatro Catalinas is a community theatre with a clear political orientation.
They present various professional productions featuring entertaining epics...
February 28th, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Buenos Aires, la boca, The Arts, theaters, tradition
A Day at the Movies in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires offers a wide variety of activities… thing to do and places to visit… so maybe you haven’t thought much about going to watch a movie. Well, think again for it can be a really cool thing to do, especially if it is pouring rain outside or hot and humid.
You would be surprised. There are some movie theatres that date back from the 1930’s and 1940’s that still continue to operate. You can still find traces of the good old times splendour they lived. They are immense inside. Definitely...
February 26th, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Attractions, Buenos Aires, cinema, Events, Family Friendly, The Arts
A Helpful City Guide
Buenos Aires is a great destination!!! It allows the visitor not only to enjoy a modern city but also to live an exceptional urban adventure and make you part of it. Buenos Aires combines varied experiences and this variety may suit all tastes.
Buenos Aires is really great to all visitors and to make the experience more exciting, the Government of the City of Buenos Aires through the Tourism Bureau has created a web page with lots of interesting and important information for all those who...
February 23rd, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Buenos Aires, History & Informationi, info, News
Almost Anything Can Be Delivered At Your Door In Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is a city where almost anything can be delivered to your doorstep. Literally almost everything is at your fingertips. Everyone delivers. I am not just talking about your everyday normal delivery like pizzas or empanadas, I mean everything.
Say you are at home and you want a cup of coffee, just call your friendly café. They will send a waiter to your door with a cup of coffee and saucer on their tray. You can add a half dozen medialunas (croissants) to go with you coffee.
Then, let’s...
February 18th, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Buenos Aires, coffee, delivery, empanadas, featuredarticle, ice cream, pizza, Shopping
El Cuartito… More Than Just a Pizzería
Pizza is incredibly popular in Buenos Aires. There are a great number of pizzerias all around the city. I have written about my favorite pizzeria, Las Cuartetas. Yet another place to eat what has become one of the most typical dishes is one of the liveliest pizza restaurants in the city. In fact, to call El Cuartito a restaurant is to do it less than justice.
In two large rooms the establishment acts as a social hub for residents of the Barrio Norte neighbourhood and provides a fascinating insight...
February 15th, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: barrio norte, Buenos Aires, Family Friendly, food and drinks, pizzería, Restaurants & Bars, traditions
The Alvear Palace Hotel, Pure Class and Distinction
The Alvear Palace Hotel is one of the most beautiful hotel in Buenos Aires. Even if you don’t stay here, at least you owe to take a look inside and maybe have a coffee in the lobby restaurant.
The hotel is located in the heart of the Recoleta district, at avenida Alvear, about 30 kilometres from Ezeiza International Airport, 10 kilometres from Aeroparque Jorge Newbery (domestic airport), and 1 kilometre from downtown and the financial district.
The hotel took 10 years to build and was finished...
February 13th, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: avenida alvear, Buenos Aires, featuredarticle, food and drinks, Hotels & Places to Stay, recoleta, Shopping
Avenida Alvear, A Very Elegant Street…
While visiting Buenos Aires, if you ever get the urge to walk among the rich but not so famous there is a street that I reckon you might like to cover Avenida Alvear. It is one of the most upper class streets to be found in the city.
Beginning at the barrio de la Recoleta, right at the Alvear memorial, just one block north of the Basílica del Pilar, the avenue runs for only seven blocks, ending at the Plazoleta Carlos Pellegrini, near the north end of the Avenida 9 de Julio.
Huge palaces can...
February 11th, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 2Filed under: architecture, avenida alvear, Buenos Aires, recoleta, Shopping
More on the Buenos Aires Carnival 2010
February is here, that means is carnival time in Buenos Aires. Every weekend from Saturday, February 6 until Sunday, February 28, “El Corso de Buenos Aires” or “Carnaval Porteño” (Buenos Aires Carnival) takes place at a number of barrios, featuring 33 corsos, thousands of artists, 107 murgas (carnival bands), and over one thousand drums and percussion instruments.
Murgas are somehow the artistic expressions of people from marginal neighbourhoods through their songs and...
February 9th, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: Buenos Aires, carnival, dance, music
Music + Dance + Colours = Carnaval Porteño
In February, after a whole year of preparation, Buenos Aires is ready to live one of its most popular festivals: the traditional Carnaval Porteño.
The carnival is a long-standing tradition in the city of Buenos Aires. Satire and defamation, body painting, dance, street music, humor, costumes, masks and mockery, are some of the characteristics that accompanied it through time.
The difference between the carnaval porteño and the other carnivals of the north is notorious in the way of singing and...
February 7th, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Buenos Aires, Carnaval, dance, featuredarticle, la boca, music
A Romantic Valentine´s Day in Buenos Aires
... assimilation. It is a relatively new phenomenon. But whether it is Valentine’s Day, your anniversary or just a special romantic weekend, Buenos Aires is one of the most romantic cities in the world. In fact, if you want to impress your sweetheart, there is no better place in South America to spice up the love life.
Love is in the air and, like in Paris or Rome, having the urge to kiss deeply and affectionately is welcome and normal in Buenos Aires. There are lots of romantic restaurants, mainly...
February 5th, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Buenos Aires, Events, featuredarticle, Tango, valentine's day
Doctor Mason, A Great Resto-bar in Palermo Soho
... a hidden corner of Palermo, was established the resto-bar Doctor Masón which gathers the most distinctive characteristics of Europe with a touch of Buenos Aires.
This old house, where the delicate light that emanates from the window attracts passer-bys, opens its doors and what you find inside is unique. An informal ambiance in an impressive structure, with exquisite details such as a recycled marble bar and a large mirror with a solid wood frame over the bar that reflects the room and produces...
February 2nd, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Buenos Aires, food and drinks, palermo, Restaurants & Bars, traditions
Tea Time at Confitería Las Violetas
Daytime is definitely the time to visit Buenos Aires´ famous Confitería Las Violetas, one of the other more beautiful cafes in the city, not only for the delicious cakes and refined light lunches on the menu, but especially to see its beautiful stained glass window vitreous at their best, with daylight streaming through them majestically.
Located in the traditional barrio de Almagro, it was established over 120 years ago and (apart for a recent closure for restoration) they have been serving...
January 30th, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Buenos Aires, famous cafés, featuredarticle, Food & Beverage, las violetas
The Planetarium – One of my Favourite Places
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January 28th, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Attractions, Buenos Aires, Family Friendly, History & Informationi, Outdoors & Recreation, palermo, planetarium
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