Argentina
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BUENOS AIRES
Casa Rosada
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The Presidential Palace of Argentina is one of the most historic and monumental buildings in Argentina. It is also called "Casa Rosada" because of its pink exterior.
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The building was built in 1594. After many constructions, in 1898 the president Julio Roca announced that the Casa Rosada would be the presidential palace.
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It is often open to the public on weekends, and there are special commentators, no tickets required.
Catedral Metropolitana de Buenos Aires
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It locates next to Plaza de Mayo and at the right in front of the Casa Rosada.
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The building was built in 1580 and has been rebuilt many times to become what it is today. It was declared a historical monument in 1942.
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Free entry and exit, no tickets required.
Museo Nacional de Cabildo
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Cabildo de Buenos Aires is the public building in Buenos Aires that was used as seat of the city hall during the colonial times and the government house of the Río de la Plata.
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Today the building is used as a museum, in which paintings, artifacts, clothes and jewelry of the 18th century are on display.
Plaza de Mayo
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It located in front of Casa Rosada.
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It is also the most popular place for all protests. In case of protest, it is not recommended to visit there.
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Between Plaza de Mayo and Museo Nacional de Cabildo, it is Plaza De San Martín
Protest in Plaza de Mayo
Plaza de San Martín
Obelisco de Buenos Aires
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The Obelisco de Buenos Aires is a national historic monument and icon of Buenos Aires.
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Located in the Plaza de la República in the intersection of avenues Corrientes and 9 de Julio.
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It was established in 1936 to commemorate the 400 years of the first foundation of the city.
Museo de Buenos Aires
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To explore the history and culture of the city of Buenos Aires.
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The landmarks and gateways of the old city, understanding the city from its establishment to the present.
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The tourist must go to museum to get the "SUBE" which is card for taking the public transport such as bus, train and metro etc.
El Ateneo Grand Splendid bookstore
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El Ateneo Grand Splendid is one of the most famous bookstores in the world.
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It was selected as the second most beautiful bookstore in the world by the British newspaper "The Guardian".
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This bookstore was originally a theater built in 1919, and it was renovated into a bookstore in February 2000.
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It is recommended to visit this bookstore and take pictures freely.
La librería de Ávila
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La librería de Ávila. is the oldest bookstore in Buenos Aires.
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This bookstore, established in 1785, has a history of more than two hundred years so far. It was declared a national monument by the Argentina Government in 2011.
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It locates at the Plaza de Mayo. When it was established in 1785, the original store name was "La Botica". In addition to selling books, it also sold some other things, such as clothes, food, drugs and alcohol etc.
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Later, it changed the owner. Because it is located opposite Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, it was renamed "Librería del Colegio". At this time, it has become a bookstore.
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During the economic crisis in Argentina in 1989, the store was closed due to operational difficulties.
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In 1993, Miguel Ángel Ávila bought the bookstore. It reopened in 1994 and changed its name to La librería de Ávila.
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It was declared a municipal monument by Buenos Aires in 2002 and a national monument in 2011.
Palatial Water Company
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In Buenos Aires, there is a very beautiful building. It is not the presidential palace, not the Congress, nor the government agency, but the building of the water company.
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The appearance is more beautiful than the presidential palace.
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It is near El Ateneo Grand Splendid bookstore.
Galerías Pacífico
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Galerías Pacífico was a subway Line A before.
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Now it is the shopping mall of the monument in Buenos Aires and it imitated Le Bon Marché department store in Paris.
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However, there are not many similar examples in the world that can preserve national historical monuments and transform them into modern shopping malls.
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The Galerías Pacífico shopping mall and the El Ateneo bookstore are two very successful examples of historic revival.
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Construction of a large central dome decorated with 12 important frescoes. In 1989, it was listed as a National Historic Landmark.
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After years of disuse, the building reopened in 1991 under the name Galerías Pacífico. Four more frescoes were added to the dome.
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Currently it opens many high-end stores, such as Polo Ralph Lauren, Christian Lacroix, Christian Dior, Lacoste, Tommy Hilfiger, Hugo Boss.
Museo de Eva Perón
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Eva Perón was the first Argentine important lady and she changed the history of Argentina.
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She said that she born for revolution of the country.
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She legalized the legislation of women voting right.
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But it is sad that she only lived 33 years.
Recoleta Cemetery de Eva Perón
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Recoleta is the most famous tomb in Buenos Aires.
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Most of the ancestors with high-ranking officials and famous families are located there.
Hipódromo Argentino de Palermo
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The Hipódromo Argentino de Palermo is a horse racing course located in Buenos Aires and also have casino like Macau.
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But the betting amount is very low because the Argentino do not like gambling.
Parque Palermo
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Parque Palermo is a very great and beautiful park with large green zone in Buenos Aires.
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It is located near Aeroparque de Jorge Newbery which is a local flight airport in Buenos Aires.
Parque Palermo
Aeroparque de Jorge Newbery.
Puerto Madero
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Puerto Madero is an old port of Buenos Aires.
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A few decades ago, most of the berths were cargo ships or bulk ships.
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However, in the past two decades, it has become a yacht/passenger terminal and a new restaurant and office area.
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Cargo ships and merchant ships have moved.
Puente de La Mujer
Museo del Holocausto
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The objective is to serve education to prevent its repetition similar horrors and, at the same time, the best tool for strengthening democratic coexistence.
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Also, it educates the new generations and preserve memory.
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Through objects, documents and testimonies from survivors, tours are exhibited to account for the process of extermination of six million Jews in the hands of Nazi Germany.
San Telmo
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San Telmo Antique Street is characterized by the shops selling antiques, as well as performances by buskers.
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Generally speaking, it is recommended to go on Saturday and Sunday.
Tigre
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Tigre is located about 32 km north of the capital, Buenos Aires, next to the Rio de La Plata. There are countless water islands. It is the most famous tourist area in the suburbs of the capital.
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The travel agency introduce Tigre as the Venice of Argentina because there are many houses and buildings above constructed above on the river and the boats pass by. It is also characterized by Maracaibo in Venezuela.
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Tigre is most famous for taking a boat tour on the river and enjoying the scenery of the water island. There are countless houses on the water island, most of which are holiday houses on weekends.
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Every weekend, many tourists come to Tigre for an outing. Most of them take a leisure day trip to the water island life, and a small number of people spend the night on the water island.
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It takes a boat from Puerto Madero to Tigre.
Café Tortoni
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Café Tortoni is not only the oldest surviving coffee shop in Argentina, but also the most representative coffee shop in Argentine culture.
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Since it established in 1858, the promotion of culture and art has been very attractive. It has been a place where cultural scholars/poets/writers/musicians and artists gather.
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There are wax figures of Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Gardel and Alfonsina Stoni, three writers/musicians and poets gathering together, as well as individual heads of some celebrities.
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In August 2022 Book Fair in Wan Chai, the booth recommended the literature of Jorge Luis Borges.
He was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, as well as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature.
LA BOCA
Conventillos
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Because sailors and new immigrants built the houses near the port, they used the paint on the ship to paint the walls.
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Often one color was used up, and there were still many parts that were not finished, and then painted with other colors.
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Now La Boca the colorful house have become its style.
La Boca Junior
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La Boca Junior and Estudiantes de La Plata are the two strongest soccer teams in Argentina.
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Diego Maradona has played La Boca Junior.
La Salta & Jujuy
Salinas Grandes
The Salinas Grandes is a large salt flat in central-northern Argentina, spanning the borders of four provinces (Córdoba, Catamarca, La Rioja and Santiago del Estero), at an average altitude above sea level.
Humahuaca
Humahuaca is characterized by the colourful valley .
Cayafate
Cafayate has many colourful valleys but it is different from Humahuaca which suffer erosion seriously.
el CALAFATE
Estancia Cristina
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The same is ice, why is the common ice white, but the glacier is as blue as blue crystal?
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It is the glacier accessible by land.
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In Glacier National Park, it built sightseeing platforms which you can see the glacier up close.
Safari Náutico
Long time ago, the farmers relied on the horses for transportation and the cows for farming. Nowadays they abolish the agriculture and all the animals get libre.
Bosque Pertrificado La Leona
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Bosque Pertrificado La Leona has a mountain with fossil in which the plant are no survival.
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It is strange that the wet finger can be attached with fossil because the fossil contains many mineral.
Mini trekking
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Mini trekking is the most popular tour to visit in the Perito Moreno Glacier from Calafate because Calafate is unique scenery in the World.
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The tourist can walk on the firm and irregular surface of ice safety.
CÓRDOBA
La Universidad Nacional De Córdoba
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Universidad Nacional de Córdoba is the oldest university in Argentina and the third oldest university of the Americas.
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The faculty of language is very famous with great variety of language studies in the world including Spanish. The university is free for local and even foreigner.
Alta Gracia - Museo Casa del Che Guevara
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Che Guevara is the icon of revolution.
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The museum is divided into several rooms, each containing photos and records related to Guevara at different times.
Villa Carlos Paz
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The city have many popular tourist activities include bathing in the rivers, fishing, kite surfing, windsurfing, hiking and mountain biking at the daytime.
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In the nighttime, especially there are many interesting shows.
MENDOZA
Alta Montaña
In 1925 the luxury hotel was built (left photo), in 1965 it was broken by the devastating avalanche (right photo).
Puente de Inca
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What is natural bridge origin?
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The ice age. Avalanche rained down bridge material.
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The thermal waters helped the sifting and durability of the bridge for many years.
Cerro Buyo Mini trekking
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Cristo Redeemer symbolizes the Argentine-Chilean Brotherhood to undertake the return.
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There is also the border between two countries.
Riding Horse in the field
Riding horse through vineyards, followed by drinking vine and barbecue dinner
Bodegas
The province of Mendoza is very famous for wine production. All tourists are eager to taste the different variety of wines.
Museo de Jose de San Martín
In this museum, it reserves the original of his house with furniture.
BARILOCHE
Circuito Chico
You can take the cable to watch the lake from the peak of mountain.
Parque Nacional Cerro Tronador
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It locates in the southern part of the Andes mountain range, on the border between Argentina and Chile.
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The name of the hill is due to the noise produced by the frequent ice falls in the glaciers, similar that of thunder.
San Martin de los Andres por 7 lagos
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Enjoy a full-day tour down the famous Seven Lakes Route through Argentina's famous Andes region.
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The water of some lake seems sweet and many crabs are survival in the lake.
Puente Romano
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It is an easy trail for beginner.
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Take a bus number 20 in central of Bariloche about 1 hours.
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As soon as you enter the trail and walk about 4 km.
MISIONES
Parque Nacional Iguazú in Argentina
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Located on the border between Argentina and Brazil, it is known as the new seven natural wonders of the world and one of the three major waterfalls in the world.
Parque Nacional Iguazú en Brazil
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Also, you can visit the waterfall from Brazil.
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But I feel that the view from Argentina is wonderful than Brazil.
LA PLATA
La Catedral de La Plata
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It is strange that the Catholic is limited amount but there has a great Cathedral.
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At the bottom of the Cathedral, it shows the progress of construction and reserves the raw construction.
Inside the Cathedral, we can take the elevator to the top of Cathedral to watch the opposite building of Government Tower and Plaza Monreo.
La Municipalidad de La Plata y Plaza Moreno
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Plaza Moreno locates at the central square of La Plata.
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On one side is the Catedral de La Plata.
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The opposite side is the La Municipalidad de La Plata which is the government towers.
Museo de La Plata
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Museo de La Plata is a museum of natural sciences and Museum of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP).
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It was the first museum of La Plata, created in 1884, two years after the founding of the city of La Plata 1886 and opened to the public in 1888.
Estadio de Estudiantes de La Plata
Estudiantes de La Plata is the strong soccer team in Argentina.
