Traveling to Buenos Aires
When scheduled trip to Buenos Aires should be divided very good time and decide if you want to know a little of everything or delve into some aspects.
Particularly I would recommend to those traveling to Buenos Aires for a short time, as a long weekend, a tour of the day for San Telmo, the oldest in Buenos Aires. The best day is Sunday, because the traditional weapon antiques fair in Plaza Dorrego. We must be very early because as we approach the more difficult midday transit through the narrow cobbled streets and sidewalks and also to follow closely the items for sale.
In almost all my trips to Buenos Aires enjoy strolling through the streets paved with all the colonial houses that have become today in art galleries and antiques sales. In an era market square selling fruit and vegetables, commercial center of the area today, 200 years later, remains the mall, where fruits are replaced with brass chandeliers, paintings and all kinds of collectibles.
Defense walking down the street are an antique store next to the other, open daily, where not only is appealing the collection of antiquities, but the houses themselves, with the colonial model which fortunately has been preserved, with the broad walls, barred windows, the front steps and marble checkerboard floors also the luminous marble hallways.
How to travel to Buenos Aires and not get lost for hours in these historic places us back to days long past and distant?
Before you reach more people, mostly tourists from around the world, we must enter the Church of San Pedro Telmo, Humberto Primo Street, a few steps from the plaza. Not only impresses with its interior and exterior architecture but as the paintings on display in the cloister, which is accessed with modest previous tour paying an entrance fee to help keep this work of art.
Leaving the Church can already hear strains of Tango, is that the whole neighborhood on Sunday Tango dresses. Opposite the church a youth orchestra that plays for hours. Several members and once I found myself watching them bring a piano from 3 or 4 musicians with a lot of work passing the cobbled street!
After listening for a while and fighting the urge to continue doing a little more, continue the journey and nothing better than a coffee at the old bar which is notable in a corner facing the square. Also from there you can listen Tangos from the plaza and then applause. It is difficult to place to see the spectacle of the dancers who carry a flexible roll-up floor to dance.
