If you had to tell a friend how Buenos Aires is, what would you say to him? Would you tell him about summer or winter in the city? About downtown or the neighbourhoods? About the mate or the drinks during the happy hour?
From August 15th through 24th the X Festival Buenos Aires Tango takes place; from the 24th to September 1st is time for the VI World Cup of Tango Dance. These are the two most tangueros weeks in the annual calendar.
If we account for tourist attractions, cultural life, food, prices and the inhabitants style, what is the best city for travellers? According to the readers of Travel + Leisure, the chosen one is Bangkok, and the second, very near the first, is Buenos Aires.
City’s inhabitants would love to enjoy lunchtime as Parisians do: sitting at a restaurant to devote a couple of hours to a meal, with enough time for the starter, the main course, dessert and a cup of coffee after lunch. However, in Buenos Aires, most people always are in hurry, without time to sit down, and most office workers eat standing up with theirs elbows on the bar of a restaurant.
Buenos Aires has no beach, nor mountain, nor ten centuries old cathedrals, nor ancient ruins from lost civilizations. But, whit that je ne sais quoi so hard to define and sung by the poets, Buenos Aires makes you in love.
Many people declare their love towards the cities. There is a mass of people in love with Paris, New York, Rio de Janeiro, and, of course, Buenos Aires. People, thousands of kilometres away, yearns for that metropolis located at another latitude which makes their heart beat in other language.
In 1984, two years before his death, Borges published Atlas, a book of journeys. It is composed by memories, brief stories and essays, dreams and even a love declaration to María Kodama (who accompanied him during his last trips) but the book is unique due to the photos of Borges as tourist: at the pyramids, in Madrid, in Athens, in an air balloon in California.
The multiculturality is almost a registered trademark of Buenos Aires. Not many neighborhoods show this special feature as well as Villa Crespo, which celebrates its 120th birthday in the heart of the city. More than a century full of Yiddish tango, clothes and leathers, parks and billiards and goals by Atlanta, strudel and falafel and pizza orders with different accents. Twelve decades of tolerance.
In 1998, an artist of the neighbourhood of Barracas painted the front of his house in the Lanín street as if it was one of his paintings. Three years later, and at request of neighbours, the painted facades were 40. Now, from June the 3rd to December the 30th, the same artist performs a new urban intervention along the same street.
In autumn, Buenos Aires does not stop. We have just recovered from the consecutive events called Bafici and the Book’s Fair, when the art attacks. Arteba starts in the Rural of Palermo with a hurricane strength because it lasts only five days – from May 29th to June 2nd to show the new trend of the Latin American art. Prepare the walls, point the lights, art.
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