Un cartel abandonado, aquí al lado, una de las marquesinas que quedaron de la década del 80´
Metegol
Lente Buckhorst H1, Película Kodot XGrizzled, sin flash, tomada con Hipstamatic
Acá a una cuadra, no sentís el olorcito de el asado?
(Taken with picplz at Plaza de la República - Obelisco.)
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Buenos Aires is the capital and by far largest city of Argentina, having a population of more than 2.7 million in the city itself and over 11 million in the metropolitan area. About a third of the Argentinian population lives here.
It’s difficult to adequately represent the city as a whole with only a few pictures. There’s so much to see: impressive palacios and not less impressive avenues, among them the 20 lanes wide Avenida 9 de Julio; the Plaza de Mayo with the Catedral Metropolitana, Casa Rosada, and some protesters who show Argentina’s point of view on the Falklands conflict; parks, one of them with a huge metal flower whose petals actually close at night; Tango dancers in the streets, museums, restaurants which serve huge pieces of beef; and countless monuments dedicated to famous people like the national hero Capitán General Don José Francisco de San Martín, Maradona, Juan Manuel Fangio, and of course also María Eva Duarte de Perón (“Evita”), who shows up here and there as a life-size statue waving from a balcony, too.
I learned some Spanish in school, but that was a long time ago, so I’m not that strong in speaking it, but due to its similarities to other roman languages, most notably Italian, I understand most of it. However, there was one thing I neither understood nor dared to ask about: On my day of arrival, just before leaving the highway leading from the airport to the city center, my taxi driver said something to me (or himself) and then made the sign of the cross with his right hand. Maybe it was just his usual procedure before entering the busy streets and sometimes chaotic traffic in downtown Buenos Aires, I don’t know.
Buenos Aires in Motion 10 / Florida Street Serie (Taken with Instagram at Buenos Aires, Argentina)
