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Food Week in Buenos Aires

While travelling or living in Buenos Aires, there are always fun festivals or exciting fairs taking place. For the past week and a half, a large food event has been going on where many restaurants offer delicious food at discounted prices. The third Buenos Aires Food Week has almost come to an end as it is a two-week event from April 1-14. Over 40 restaurants are participating and offering exceptional food at great prices and today is the last day!

All of the restaurants offer three-course meals at a fixed price of $140 Argentine pesos for lunch and $220 Argentina pesos for dinner. (more…)

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Argentina´s Ghost Town

Argentina has always been an amazing country to get to know and see. One of the many places to visit is the small lakeside town of Epecuen, a 550 kilometer-drive from Buenos Aires. It used to be a small tourist resort, bringing in over 20,000 visitors each season. The lake is well-known for having 10 times more salt than the ocean, thus making the water buoyant. Visitors from Buenos Aires used to come to the lake and enjoy floating in the water.

Then on November 10, 1985 an extremely strong rainstorm came after many wet winters and the lake overflowed. (more…)

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Take your bicycle in the Subte

The government of “la Ciudad de Buenos Aires” wants to encourage the use of bicycles in the city, says “Coches Furgones”. A possible project is introducing special wagons for subtes to take your bike with you, like it happens with normal trains.

Since 2009 BA invested in new cycle pads and other infrastructure for cyclers. This is why the amount of people who prefer going to school/work has increased by 5 times as much as before 2009.The problem for Buenos Aires is that the city is more than 203.3km² big, and that makes going from for example the north to the south impossible by bike. (more…)

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BAFICI is Back Again!

Good news for all film lovers. The 16th edition of BAFICI (Buenos Aires Feria Internacional de Cine Independiente) is coming up very so back today! From April 2-13, you can enjoy a large spectrum of movies in the whole city of Buenos Aires.

The festival will be opened with the animation film of director Ari Folman, “The Congress”, with Robin Wright and Harvey Keitel. This film was made by six countries: Israel, Germany, Poland, Luxembourg, France and Belgium, and was filmed in Los Angeles, California. This makes the film the ideal opener for an international film festival. (more…)

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Buenos Aires Indie Film Fest

If you are a film lover and you want to travel to Argentina, April is the month to come. The Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Film, or BAFICI, is eleven days full of films and fun, taking place from April 2-13. The Buenos Aires Culture Department began BAFICI in 1999, making this year the 16th year. Over 300,000 filmgoers participate in the watching of more than 400 film screenings.

Argentina, along with Cuba, Mexico, and Brazil, is one of the leaders of South America cinema. 2014 holds even more Argentine world premieres than last year (more…)

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Dakar Rally 2015 to start in Buenos Aires

The 35th edition of the Paris-Dakar Rally will be a special one, especially for Argentina. The race will start and end at Plaza de Mayo, one of the most important squares of Argentina, in front of famous Casa Rosada (the house where the Argentinian president, de Kirchner, lives).

The rally will be 9,000 kilometres long and will go through Argentina, Chile and for the first time Bolivia (instead of Peru). The décor of the rally will be amazing. The Andes mountains, the Atacama desert, Solar de Uyuni, and many others.
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Argentina had its own Malaysia Airlines flight MH370

The whole world is talking about it right now, the disappearance of a state-of-the-art Boeing 777-200ER of Malaysia Airlines. On March 8, 2014 the Boeing was in route from the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China when all of the sudden the plane disappeared above the China Sea. Since then, all contact was lost and more than 12 days after this incident, the world does not know where Malaysia flight MH370 is, or what happened with it.

What many people do not know is that Argentina had a similar mystery to deal with during the sixties. (more…)

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40th edition of “Feria Internacional del Libro” in Buenos Aires

Just like every year in April and May, Buenos Aires will be the place to be for all Spanish literature lovers. From the 24th of April to the 12th of May you can go to the Buenos Aires International Book Fair to get that one book you always wanted, or a quick talk with your favourite writer.

It’s not just ‘a’ festival of books, it is the 40th edition. This means that it will be bigger than before. There will be a lot of international guests, like Juan José Campanella, Anne Marie Chartier, Eugenio Echeverría, Grazia Gotti and Luis González Martin. (more…)

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Sculpture Exhibit at Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes

The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos AIres is hosting a new sculpture exhibit featuring Argentine sculptures from 1895 to 1914. The sollection is part of a first collection of sculptures acquired by the museum’s founder Eduardo Schiaffino.

The collection includes works by renowned local names such as Arturo Dresco, Pedro Zonza Briano, Lucio Correa Morales, Mateo Alonso, Francisco Cafferata, Víctor de Pol.

Shiaffino wanted to create a space where students and artists would be in direct contat with each other and he wanted to exhibit great works of art. (more…)