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Run run Buenos Aires!

With almost 100 running events a year, Buenos Aires can say that it’s the capital ´running city´ of South-America. Compared to other cities as Bogota, Sao Paula and Santiago, Buenos Aires has the highest numbers. 80 percent of the running events are held in Argentina, and most of them in the metropolitan area.

This all started three years ago when there was a change in diet and healthy living here. More and more people chose for a more healthy lifestyle which includes losing weight, stop smoking and feel fitter. (more…)

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Buenos Aires Fashion Week March 01-04

Fasion week is coming to the city! The Buenos Aires Fasion Week is hosted during the first week of March, 2016. During these days, famous desingers will show their autumn and winter collection. Among the designers are: Juan Hernández Daels, Maison Nomade, Abre Indumento, Talitha Ind and many more. The entrance is for free and you can register via the offical Facebookpage of Bafweek (Bafweek Oficial; www.facebook.com/BAFWEEKoficial/). The event takes places in “La Rural”, which is situated in the neigborhood of Palermo, right beside Plaza Italia. (more…)

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Lollapalooza festival in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is heaven for festival lovers: there are so many festivals: music festivals, theater festivals, food festivals, tango festivals and more. For March there is the Lollapalooza festival on the program.

Lollapalooza is a music festival with different genres of music, going from rock to hiphop, punk rock, heavy metal and dance. There are also dance and comedy performances and you will also find craft booths. Artists, non-profit organizations and political groups are gathered around and are to be found at certain places during the festival. The festival takes place all day and night. (more…)

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Celebrating Carnival in Buenos Aires

Although Buenos Aires is not home to the worlds famous Latin American Carnival, Argentine people do celebrate carnival. During all weekends in February you will find Corsos, street parades and Murgas: group of dancers and drummers crossing the streets during the evening in the different neighborhoods of Buenos Aires. The parades start at 19:00 in the evening and lasts till 02:00, at Sundays it will end at midnight.

The major event takes place in the weekend of the 6th and the 7th of February. So where should you go when you want to celebrate carnival in Buenos Aires? (more…)

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Restrictions on books from abroad lifted in Buenos Aires

The restrictions on books that enter Argentina from abroad have been lifted. This means that from now on, people in Argentina you are able to receive books that you order online.

Before today, if you tried to buy a book online from abroad, you not only had to wait several days for it to arrive, you also had to go to Customs or to Ezeiza.

Guillermo Moreno, secretary of Domestic Trade, introduced the restrictions in 2012. (more…)

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Subway station Retiro will close for January

The Retiro subway station will remain closed for almost all of January. Retiro station is on of the end stations of the C line. SBASE (the company Buenos Aires Subways) released an official statement saying that the subway will close for maintenance set to restore and improve aspects of the station. The maintenance will begin on 4 January and the services are scheduled to return to normal on 31 January.

Retiro station is an important subway station and is used by over 37,000 people daily. (more…)

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Cepo lifted – Blue dollar rate gone

The Argentine currency control, otherwise known as cepo, is on of the many regulations introduced by former president Christina Fernández de Kirchner. The cepo exists out of import and export rules and currency controls designed to protect the foreign currency reserves of the Central Bank.

In his campaign, president Mauricio Macri promised to get rid of the currency controls, which would result in the blue dollar rate disappearing.
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Mauricio Macri – Argentina’s next president

Mauricio Macro, the centre-right mayor of the city of Buenos Aires, was elected on Sunday 22 November to become Argentina’s 53th president.

The candidate from the Cambiemos party won with 51,40% of the votes against Victory Front’s Daniel Scioli. Macri will be sworn in on 10 December for a term of four years.

Born on 8 February 1959, Tandil, he is a member of one of Argentina’s richest families and son of the business magnate Franco Macri. He will be the first non-Peronist president since 2001. (more…)

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The Recoleta cemetery is going to charge foreigners

The Recoleta Cemetery, one of the must-see tourist attractions in Buenos Aires, announced that it is going to charge foreigner visitors with an entrance fee to fund the preservation of the well known cemetery.

The cemetery is going to charge AR$ 100 to foreigners during the high season only (from September to March.)

The money that will be collected will be used to organise and modernise guided tours and visits. (more…)