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Welcome to Buenos Aires! In this city you will find a mix between the elegance of the Europe capitals and the spirit of South America . The city was founded by immigrants that came mostly in the XIX century from Italy, Spain, France, Germany, UK, etc. Visiting Buenos Aires, you will experience a sort of "deja vù" of Europewhile you explore the grand boulevards, expansive parks, magnificent architecture, and ever-changing fashion of Argentina's beautiful capital.

We encourage you to take a walk through neighborhoods like Recoleta, Palermo (Soho, Hollywood, Las Cañitas), and you'll be persuaded that you're in the Paris 16^th District. Porteños, -as Buenos Aires citizens are called-, feel with a sort of pride being the most European of South American.

Do not get confused by the architecture of the city, you are still in South America. It may appear in some areas to be a civilized city with an European scent, but you will soon notice porteño`s evident behavior. Specially in issues like the traffic (they drive like hell, I think that was inherited from Italians / Spaniards), the warm way they live their relationships with family and friends (Porteños boys give a kiss to greet other males -even straight guys-), the passionate way they speak using their hands to talk, the importance they gave to family and friends, and principally the social and political structure of this beautiful city.

While exploring Buenos Aires, you will find a city of contradictions. Great wealth exists alongside considerable--if often hidden--poverty. The economy was terrible for some years after 2001 crisis, but now is recovering very fast (and you can notice it in shops, bars, restaurants and clubs). Anyway during the crisis hotels and restaurants remained inexplicably full. Porteños can be self-assured, even though the population is highly image-conscious. And Buenos Aires defines Argentina, but has little to do with the rest of the country. All these elements demonstrate the complexity of a city searching for identity among its South American and European influences. And they make Buenos Aires an unusual and fascinating place.

Buenos Aires Gay Life

Buenos Aires is becoming a popular gay travel destination. Is probably one of the most open-minded cities in Latin America. It has also an European feel, but very cheap because of the crisis. The guys are very hot, a mix of Italian, some Spaniards, German, French, English.

Andrew Collins author or several gay guides and Foddors Gay Guide, sustains in an online article published in OutUK: "This isn't a let-it-all-hang-out party place like Rio. Rather, in Buenos Aires, lesbians and gay men socialize on a fairly low-keyed level, often in the city's many trendy outdoor cafes and stylish restaurants - plus a decent number of gay bars. While you won't necessarily encounter a Castro- or Chelsea-like gay playground where same-sex couples stroll hand-in-hand, you will find that residents of Buenos Aires accept gays and lesbians as a natural component of the urban fabric."