The city of Buenos Aires, one of the most important in Latin America, is a great cosmopolitan metropolis. With its evident universal influence, this city amazes the tourist. It is the country’s cultural, political, economic and social center.
Many of its streets resemble those of Paris because of the French style buildings and the tree lined sidewalks.

Among the most visited places, you find the San Telmo Fair, Caminito, Recoleta, La Boca, the Mataderos Fair, the Botanical Garden, the Zoo, the Japanese Garden and the Holly Land Theme Park, which is the first religious theme park in the world. Other places due to their historical value are the “Cabildo" (City Hall), Casa Rosada (the official seat of the executive branch of the government) the Metropolitan Cathedral, the City Palace, the Obelisk, Colón Theatre, the Block of the Lights and the Planetarium.

The Manzana de las Luces area presents the San Ignacio church, the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, and the old city council building (1984 to 1931).

This zone has underneath hidden tunnels, which crossed the city during colonial times.

In the neighborhood of San Telmo, many artists have their ateliers here. This contributed to the bohemian air that is felt when you walk along its streets. Every Sunday a flea market that takes place at Plaza Dorrego: antiques, street music and dance, jazz, tango, performers, coffee shops, bars and pubs attract locals and tourists of all ages.

In the barrio of Recoleta there are a number of tourist sites including the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Centro Cultural Recoleta, the Basílica Nuestra Señora de Pilar, the Palais de Glace, the Bar La Biela and the Cementerio de la Recoleta, where the remains of Eva Duarte de Perón can be found. The Jockey Club is in Recoleta since 1968 and serves wel-off horse breeders. Nearby are the National Library and the University of Buenos Aires Law Faculty.

In the barrio of Retiro, there is the Estación Retiro. There are several monuments in this are including the Guerra de Malvinas, the General San Martín, Torre de los Ingleses, and the Kavanagh Building, one of the tallest in the city.

The neighborhood of Palermo offers many options: Alto Palermo Shopping Center, one of the largest shopping malls, Plaza Palermo Viejo, an area that mirrors an older Spanish style in architecture, often "recycled" with modern elements, the Soho (Plaza Serrano) as a trendy area for fashion, design, restaurants, bars and street culture, Palermo Hollywood, a popular destination for its bars and night clubs. The Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires is situated in this neighborhood e barrio of Palermo, and is one of the most important throughout the country. In this neighbourhood you can also find the Bosques de Palermo, the Planetary and Buenos Aires Zoo.

Buenos Aires is rich in culture. It has more than 90 museums, exhibition and conference centers, art galleries, cinemas and theatres. An tourist spot is Avenida Corrientes. In this avenue, you can find theaters like Teatro San Martín, Paseo La Plaza and the stadium Luna Park. At the intersection of this avenue with Avenida 9 de Julio, the Obelisco, the emblem of the City of Buenos Aires, is situated. Mercado del Abasto, which is presently a shopping mall, is also located this avenue.

Puerto Madero is another neighborhood which covers a significant portion of the Rio de la Plata riverbank. It is composed by recycled warehouses transformed into lofts, bars and restaurants and adding some new hotels and office buildings.

Nightlife in Buenos Aires is very dynamic. Porteños (people from Buenos Aires) like to go out for dinner and stay up until early hours in the morning. Local people never have dinner before 9 PM, so you will see that restaurants look empty by that time except for the tourist areas where restaurants open earlier. Discos, restaurants, cafes and many other attractions for all tastes are all around the city offering a large number of options for the tourist.

One of the passions of the Argentineans is the soccer, the most popular sport.
The passion that Argentineans feel is not easy to describe. You have to experience it by yourself by going to a stadium to see a match.
River Plate and Boca Juniors are "the millionaires" versus 'the people’s team”.

Another typical and traditional feature of Argentinean idiosyncrasy is the Tango. European and American tango fans get together night after night. Particularly, Japan has its own tango sub-culture.

The growth of tango was difficult due to the impossibility of understanding by other audiences and was approached through the dance, which was earlier than tango itself as a musical format (let alone the sung music, which arrived much later). Tango culture is earlier than tango as an artistic expression. Salon dances involving a man and a woman embracing were the precedent for tango, it must be recognized as the last step in the universal dance evolution as regards dances of mixed couples.

Themes always refer to the common man and his problems, the city and memories. Hence, tango becomes a depiction of Buenos Aires and its people. For this reason, Tango gained ground abroad since the best of the Buenos Aires culture is carried in each song.
Tango music is traditionally played by an orquesta típica, a sextet which includes two violins, piano, doublepass, and two bandoneons.