The new cultural program “Yo leo en el bar” (I read in the bar) offers the complete works of Jorge Luis Borges in the following bars: El Progreso, El Tortoni, Hotel Castelar, La Giralda, 36 Billares, El Gato Negro, Margot, Mar Azul, St. Moritz, El Querandí, Iberia, y El Federal. El Progreso Anchorena 529 El [...]
La Casa Rosada La Casa Rosada (the Pink House) is the official seat of the executive branch of the government of Argentina, and of the offices of the President. The President normally resides at the Quinta de Olivos, a compound in Olivos, Buenos Aires province. The Casa Rosada sits at the eastern end of the [...]
Recoleta is the city’s most elegant and distinguished neighborhood. The district owes its name to the Convet of the Recoletos Descalzos --"barefoot" misionaries-- (founded on 1716), community of the Recoletos Friars. These monks constructed their monastery on an already existing small farm, which name had been given after the abundance of a particular kind of [...]