Argentina

Blue and yellow

I continue talking about our sightseeing tour in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I am not a football fan, so I do not know about it very well, but we passed by a stadium called…

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Cathedral where the Pope used to be

The current Pope is from Argentina. Before he became the Pope in 2013, he was the archbishop of the cathedral in Buenos Aires. We visited this cathedral. The outside was like a…

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‘just in case’

The official residence of the president of Argentina is the Pink House, which faces the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires which means May Square. This name came from the May Revolution of 1810 which led…

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Pink House

In Buenos Aires there is a Pink House and it is literally pink. In Spanish it is called Casa Rosada and it is the official residence of the President of Argentina. The…

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See the tango

We went to see the Piazzolla Tango Show in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The theatre was not very big, but had a very nice art deco style. It was possible to have a…

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Meat, again

On the first evening in Buenos Aires, Argentina, we all went to a restaurant called Gran Parrilla del Plata, which was recommended by our tour leader. I think it was located on…

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National stone of Argentina

The things I was looking forward to in Argentina was not only meat, but also the pink gemstone called Rhodochrosite.

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Visited Teatro Colón

There is a fine opera house in Buenos Aires called Teatro Colón. It was very close to our hotel, but unfortunately it was closed for summer, so we joined the tour which…

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To Buenos Aires

We flew to Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina on the next day. When we went out of the airport, in front of us, there was the sea … but no, it…