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Caminito
Caminito With its brightly painted houses and funky atmosphere, Caminito is one of the most famous streets in Buenos Aires. It may not be a grand boulevard, but Caminito is a historic walkway that grabs your attention from the moment you enter. Founded by Italian immigrants from Genoa, the street
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Sabor a Tango
Sabor a Tango Of all the romantic things you can say about Buenos Aires, one that most tourists will not want to go home without experiencing is a tango show. One great option is the Sabor a Tango (literally: Flavor of Tango) show, held in the vast Palazzo Rossini, built in 1878, and which was for
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Café de los Angelitos
Café de los Angelitos Think of Buenos Aires and you think the tango. Café de los Angelitos and its evenings of dining and performances roll everything iconic about Buenos Aires into one night. The “café” (really a nightclub) is a longtime icon of this Argentine city and has been putting on shows h
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Plaza de la Republica
Plaza de la Republica One of Buenos Aires’s most famous landmarks, the Obelisco (Obelisk), is located in the center of Plaza de la Republica. Erected in 1936 to commemorate the first (and ultimately unsuccessful) founding of Buenos Aires by Pedro de Mendoza on its 400th anniversary, the monument s
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Plaza Italia
Plaza Italia Plaza Italia, a small perk located in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires, was originally built in 1898 and named Plaza de los Portones, or Plaza of the Big Gates. In 1909, the city of Buenos Aires renamed it Plaza Italia after a statue of Italian general and politician Giuseppe
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Aconcagua Provincial Park
Aconcagua Provincial Park It would be a shame if, while visiting Mendoza, Argentina’s most populous city in the western part of the country, you didn’t make it up to the Andes. Not only to see the border between Chile and Argentina, but most importantly, to glimpse these giants of the mountain wor
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San Isidro Cathedral
San Isidro Cathedral Presiding over the historic town of San Isidro in the northeastern region of Buenos Aires Province, the San Isidro Labrador Cathedral is the crown jewel of suburban Buenos Aires and a popular pilgrimage site for those taking the famous Train of the Coast railway along the coas
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Penguin Island
Penguin Island Known as Penguin Island, Isla Yecapasela is colonized by cute flocks of Magellanic and gentoo penguins.A working nature reserve, the Yecapasela Reserve was created on the island (also known as Isla Martillo) and surrounding islets by Estancia Harberton in the 1970s.The island was fo
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End of the World Train (Tren del Fin del Mundo)
End of the World Train (Tren del Fin del Mundo) For the ultimate end of the world adventure, ride the world’s southernmost train to the Tierra del Fuego National Park. The one-hour narrow-gauge journey leaves from outside Ushuaia, following the 100-year route of the historic Convict Train.The rout
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Santa Susana Ranch
Santa Susana Ranch Located in the pampas of Buenos Aires Province outside the capital city, Estancia Santa Susana (Santa Susana Ranch) is one of the region’s most popular destinations for experiences a taste of traditional gaucho culture. Founded at the end of the last century by an Argentine citi
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Tango Porteno
Tango Porteno Seeing a tango show is a quintessential Buenos Aires experience. Tango Porteno, housed within a former MGM movie theater, stages one of the best tango shows in town. The art deco-style theater is the perfect place for a trip back to the 1940s, considered the golden age of tango in Ar
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Tigre
Tigre With its scenic waterways, riverside funfair and lively handicrafts market, the charming provincial town of Tigre offers a welcome change of pace from nearby Buenos Aires and draws a steady stream of porteños year-round. Located on the Tigre Delta (one of the world’s largest), at the meeting
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Tierra del Fuego National Park
Tierra del Fuego National Park Running north from the Beagle Channel, the Tierra del Fuego National Park offers visitors the chance to follow easy walking trails along scenic rivers and bays. The park’s forests of beech are home to coastal birds such as cormorants and albatross.Argentina’s only co
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Beagle Channel
Beagle Channel The frigid Beagle Channel provides a watery highway for the world’s southernmost city, Ushuaia, en route to the icy Antarctic.The strait separates Argentina’s Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, to the north, from remote Chilean islands like Nueva, Picton and Navarino to the south of t
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Parque Nacional Iguazu (Iguazu National Park)
Parque Nacional Iguazu (Iguazu National Park) Though the Brazilians boast of their outstanding views over the falls, Argentina is blessed with about 80% of Iguazu, lovingly threaded by several kilometers of paved trails and catwalks that could keep you occupied for three days. A free jungle train
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Colon Theatre (Teatro Colón)
Colon Theatre (Teatro Colón) Since 1908, the Colon Theatre (or Teatro Colón) has set the benchmark for gilded magnificence and the ultimate theater experience. One of the world’s top five opera houses, the luxurious seven-story building seats 2,500 theater-goers on plush red velvet chairs on tiers
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Kavanagh Building
Kavanagh Building On a corner of Plaza San Martin in the Retiro neighborhood of Buenos Aires stands one of its most iconic buildings. The Kavanagh Building was designed in 1934 and built in 1936, and at 394 feet (120 meters) it was for a time the tallest building in Latin America. The story surrou
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Calafate Mountain Park
Calafate Mountain Park Perched atop El Calafate’s nearest peak, with access to a vast stretch of snow-blanketed slopes and rugged mountain trails, the Calafate Mountain Park is an obvious choice for outdoors enthusiasts and there is a range of activities on offer. Winter visitors can make the most
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Trapiche Winery
Trapiche Winery Unlike some of the smaller wineries in the Mendoza area, Trapiche is very well known in the international wine scene, and in fact, the winery traces its history to 1883, and began sending wines to international competitions in Paris as early as 1920. Since the 1970s, Trapiche has b
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Estancia Cristina
Estancia Cristina Patagonia, Argentina, is a place that makes people want to pack up their bags and move to this natural paradise. Estancia Cristina, an old sheep ranch (estancia) dating back to 1918, makes that a possibility. In 2005, the site opened its doors as an inn, as well as an agro-touris
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