Buenos Aires and its neighborhoods

Microcentro and Center of Buenos Aires
The so-called Microcentro of Buenos Aires is the key point of the town. We find there the most important banks and companies. During the week the streets of the Microcenter are very buisy.
The Avenida 9 Julio is one of the widest avenues of the world and separates the Microcenter from the Center. The Obelisque stands right at the cross of the most important avenues of Buenos Aires: the Avenida 9 de Julio and the Avenida Corrientes.
In the Avenida Corrientes you find book shops, theaters, cinemas, which keeps walking the people until late in the night.

Palermo
In only a few years Palermo became one of the most fashionable places of Buenos Aires. It consists of Palermo Hollywood, Soho, Palermo Chico (Small Palermo) and Palermo Viejo (Old Palermo). Palermo Hollywood got its name for the presence of different TV channels. In Palermo Soho latest fashion and design objects are sold in the shops.
At daytime these places don't differ a lot from other ones in Buenos Aires. There is the usual bar at the corner, the fruit shop, the supermarket managed by a Chinese family. But in the evening the people and the ambient change completely. It became fashionable to renovate the typical old huge houses of Buenos Aires and convert them into meeting places, bars, restaurants. Mentioning only a few of them, there is the Taller, right at the Plaza Serrano, where you can join readings, jazz concerts or the Esculapio para un Gallo, which today is a cultural centre with cinema, bar and restaurant.

San Telmo
San Telmo is the Tango place par excellence. It is one of the oldest quarters of Buenos Aires and was called originally Altos de San Pedro. You find a great number of historical buildings and churches there. And also the Viejo Almacén, which is a traditional place of Tango.

Despite of the large number of tourists visiting San Telmo, you can still find the authentic of this place, which are very old bars, the market, the Milonga-bars. On weekends Porteños as well as tourists visit the big market along the Calle Defensa, which is supposed to be one of the oldest streets of Buenos Aires.

Retiro
Immigration and emigration is of great importance to the Republic Argentina.
The immigrants at the beginning of the 20th century first came to the Hotel of the immigrants, stayed there for about 5 days while trying to find a place to live.
The immigrants received a first lecture on the customs and the language of Argentina. In the Museum of the Immigration, located in the former Hotel of the Immigration the era of the big immigration to Argentina is presented.
The crisis in 2001 with the dismissal of President De la Rúa effected another big emigration wave in the Argentinian history.

La Boca
La Boca is marked by two important constructions: the futball pit and the former harbour. In the middle of the way you find the well-known touristic attraction "El Caminito" with its typical colorful houses.
La Boca is name of the place, where the Tango was born, where the first people of Buenos Aires lived. The first immigrants were mainly Italians, from the region of Genua. They came during the great immigration wave during 1860 and 1910 and remained in La Boca.
It was always a poor place until today, where strong social conflicts concerns the people living normally there. On the other hand the ecological problems, namely the little river Riachuelo, need a strong economic inversion.