Behind elegant neo-classical gates in a quiet corner of northern Buenos Aires lies a city in miniature. Avenues of cypress weave past stately yew lined mausoleums bearing ornate facades of granite and gleaming white marble. Silence hangs like mist in this quiet neighborhood where the dead slumber...
Modern award-winning architecture houses the work of Oscar Agustin Alejandro Schulz Solari (1887-1963), more commonly known as Xul Solar. Without a doubt the most singular and eccentric Argentine artist of the 20th century, Xul Solar's work, from paintings to board games to languages, is a world...
Anyone who's spent quality time in the great European capitals knows beautiful churches. And to be perfectly honest, on the inside, Basílica Nuestra Señora del Pilar is more of the same—vaulted ceilings, stained-glass windows, intricate high-relief religious sculptures. But sometimes it IS...
Historical Building
Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Considered by many to be the heart of the classy Recoleta neighborhood, Plaza Francia's green sloping banks and massive old trees provide respite for tired legs. Surrounded by a wealth of tourist sights - including the adjacent Cementerio de Recoleta and the Basilica Nuestra Senora del Pilar -...
This artisan fair started in the 1960s, evolving out of the hippie counterculture. Groups of artists and musicians who belonged to this movement used to gather in the Plaza, and eventually began selling artisan crafts.
The military regimes that controlled Argentina from the late 1960s kicked the...