European does not test by unloading in Buenos Aires any feeling of expatriation or exoticism, just the feeling to be in a retro city, as stopped in the Fifties or sixty. In certain districts have could believe itself in a European city.
The illusion is almost perfect if one remains in the center, it disappears, if one tries hard to see, at half an hour from the center, the immense villas miserias, shantytowns of hundreds of thousands of uprooted attracted by the hope of a better life, where poverty recalls that one is in Latin America.
The best place to evaluate the anatomy of the immense capital is the top of the Sheraton hotel or that of the Kavanagh building.

Plaza of Mayo is the heart of the city, and even of Argentina, because it saw being held the principal events of its history. Put By-pass, siége presidency of the republic, occupies the face is of Plazza of Mayo. With a little chance, each evening at 7 a.m., one can attend the changing of the guard. The place is bordered of important buildings of the record years 20-30. In the North-East of the place, the cathedral, with the sober frontage shelters the mausoleum of the General San Martin, the great man, symbol of independence. In the west of the place, the old man Cabildo (old Town hall), beautiful masonry of the end of the 18 3rd century preserved in his oldest part, transformed into museum, the framework where proceeded the historical events which marked the stages of independence.

Avenida of Mayo, recalls by the width of these pavements, the animated terraces of the coffees and the aspect of the buildings which border it, the boulevards of Madrid more than of Paris. But it seems fixed in time. It which monopolized before the second world war a good share of the so intense night animation of which Buenos Aires with the secrecy.
On vast and very beautiful Plaza of Congreso the Palate of the National Congress rises. The evening, the cinemas, the theatres and the coffees give to Plaza of Congreso an animation prolonged late.
The Corrientes avenue is each evening the most animated of Buenos Aires. The theatres, the cinemas, the bookshops and the coffees maintain a single night life in the capital.
The avenue of Santa Fe is that of the stores and the shopping malls, one of the high places of consumption.
Calle Florida, mall of all temptations for the amateurs of beautiful objects, clothing of the best dressmakers. But it is also a place animated permanently, especially the evening, with its groups of folk music of North or Bolivia or its players of tango.

Recolata became one of the high places of the animation of Buenos Aires and the crossroads of all the social classes. But there are Recolata and Recolata.
The aristocracy and the middle-class hear smart coffees and restaurants, to show themselves in its more beautiful atours and to take the sun while keeping an eye on their charming small children.
But Recolata it is also, being next to the church baroque of El Pilar and cemetery celebrates it (which is worth with him only a visit) the Municipal Arts centre where follow one another, all the year, the exposures most various and drains a considerable public rather different from that which attends the smart restaurants located on other side of the place.
Sunday and the public holidays the market of craft industry settles which gathers tens of craftsmen come to expose and sell: jewels, clothing, sculptures. Very close, the clowns, the marionnettists, sometimes of the orchestras, contribute to create animation.

Palermo Parks which extends on approximately 500 hectares, is the most beautiful park of the Argentinian capital. In Buenos Aires, there were no trees. All was planted and laid out by the men, one dug there a lake, one there built a splendid hippodrome, grounds of sports shirt and golf and the zoological gardens.
Early the morning the joogeurs, the cyclists or other riders benefit from calms, then come the walkers. Sunday it becomes a place of family meeting, picnic and leisures.

The district of San Telmo was 19 3rd century the smart district, it became now a district of middle class. The reputation of San Telmo comes initially from the great concentration of shops of antique dealers. The secondhand trade of Sunday is an environment of flea market where animation is also in the street with its impromptu orchestras of tango, its singers and its clowns.
The night, animation moves towards the boxes with tango of the low district.

Boca is the district which A can be best symbolized the crucible where was formed, at the beginning of the 20 3rd century, the proletariat of Buenos Aires. Boca is one of the most visited districts of Buenos Aires.
Boca, it is initially Caminito, this street, today pedestrian, broadside of houses to the corrugated, painted iron frontages colors sharp, and frescos. It is also the district where painters and sculptors installed their workshop and where it reigns certain Bohemian.
The evening, the few streets which become animated around the sailor boxes, boxes with tango, restaurants Italian attract a cosmopolitan crowd.