- Type: Landmarks
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NileGuide Expert Says:
When the antiques stalls are taken down at sunset on Sundays, take a seat at an outdoor café in the plaza and watch as the locals slowly drift in to create an outdoor milonga, or tango hall. The spectacle rivals just about any overpriced tango show.
Description:
- This historic plaza was the sight of the swearing of National Independence in 1816 before Don Juan Martín de Pueyrredón. During the colony, it was a resting post for wagons travelling from the port to what is now Plaza de Mayo along the first roadway, known today as Calle Defensa. Today it is the site of the San Pedro Telmo Antique Fair, where street performances by tango dancers, musicians, mimes and colourful characters mingle with the painters, antiquarians and street vendors in a bohemian rhapsody of song, dance and nostalgia. Ramble the colonial cobblestone streets of the Barrio de San Telmo to Avenida Independencia and Balcarce, to see El Viejo Almacén from the early colonial days, now a traditional tango bar/restaurant.
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Awards:
Frommer's
- Highly Recommended 2010
- Details
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Contact:
- visit website
Address:
- Defensa and Humberto Primo
- Plaza Dorrego, at the intersection of Defensa and Humberto I
- Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires 1065
Neighborhood:
San TelmoStrenuousness:
- No Sweat
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