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In this city there is also a great attractive in their commercial centers and their varied stores, the streets with bigger movement of this type are: Santa Fé and Florida. Florida is a pedestrian area, if you want to acquire luxurious articles, the exclusive area of "Recoleta" has many boutiques of great category and several antique stores. When you are over there, is recommended to visit the cemetery Recoleta, which possesses magnificent mausoleums.


Commercial centers as: Patio Bullrich, Pacific Galleries and High Palermo are pleasant, although you only want to look at the cabinets and not buy anything, only give a small tour and know the area.


In the Avenues "Avellaneda", "Cabildo" and "Mitre" there are also parchases areas, for those that are looking for low prices they can find them in "El Once", it is a neighborhood that offers clothes and other articles to the best prices.









The food and the nights in Buenos Aires

From their fabulous barbecues and meats, their "pascualinas" and typical "empanadas", "matambres" and "locros" until a great range of foods with European influence that discover the mixture of immigrations that arrived to the country: The pizzas, the sandwichs, the cakes, alfajores and "Masitas Dulces" ("sweet masses")… the selection is very wide, for all the likes and palates. But you don't leave the city without having proven the famous "Dulce de Leche"


After a delicious dinner, a walk for the center "Currents", allows you to choose among great number of cinemas, theaters and variety shows, the big mayority are open until the dawn.


A visit to "Puerto Madero" (especially if you already met some decades ago) produces a great astonishment for the change. This place between the city and the river, with old warehouses and piers, has been restored and today it has become center of beautiful restaurants and buildings of offices.

If you have some free time, you can pass the time in a little tango lessons.







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Interval Latin America have
Year: 2001
Author: Cristina Juri Arencibia
Title: Argentina, Urban and Country






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