Posts Tagged "tango"

Feria de Mataderos

It's not on everybody's list and it takes a little bit of effort to get there, but once you've got your cheap flight to Buenos Aires a visit to the weekly Feria de Mataderos in Buenos Aires is a truly ...

Tango Festival & World Championships

It's not only sports that get to have a world championship - Tango gets in on the action too. If you've been in Buenos Aires these last few days you won't have missed the signs telling you that August is ...

Tango & Filete

If the emblematic dance of Buenos Aires is tango, then its emblematic art form has to be Filete, and it's therefore no surprise that the two are so closely linked. Both evolved in the late 19th century from working class ...

Carlos Gardel – the Buenos Aires Icon

If you were to ask a visitor to Buenos Aires to name somebody who for them summed the city up, they might answer Evita or maybe Maradona. Both good answers, but if you asked a PorteƱo, you may well hear ...

Tango Icons

OK, so two photos today and not of anyone actually tangoing either but two iconic tango places in Buenos Aires. Carlos Gardel is to Tango what Maradona is to Football. Except more so. And he's dead. The world's greatest ever Tango ...