What is Christmas like in Buenos Aires? With fireworks, warm temperatures, calorie-laden food, and dancing until dawn, Navidad in Buenos Aires is a party that is literally not for the faint of heart. It may be Christmas but It’s Hot as Hades! Christmas falls in summer in the southern hemisphere, so traditions such as Santa […]
Archives for 2013
Foto of the Week — The National Symphony of the Blind
The Pascual Grisolía National Symphony of the Blind and singer, Guillermo Fernández perform in the Palais de Glace gardens. Founder and music teacher, Pascual Grisolía began teaching music to blind students in 1939, but it wasn’t until 1947 that they performed as La Banda Sinfónica de Ciegos, gaining attention as the world’s first orchestra composed […]
Foto of the Week: Gay Pride Diva
A colorful, yet PG-rated, participant of the 22nd Buenos Aires Gay Pride parade poses for the camera. The motto of this year’s march was ‘Egalitarian Sex Education — Free and Secular.’ Thanks to legislation passed in recent years, Argentina’s gay community enjoys some of the most progressive LGBT laws in the world. Perhaps due to […]
Foto of the Week — Relaxing Under a Tree in Uribelarrea
A traveler relaxes under a tree in Uribelarrea, a tiny pueblo on the outskirts of metropolitan Buenos Aires. Founded in 1889, this tiny town has only 1,150 laid-back residents. Among its inhabitants are those born and raised here, the student body of the Salesian Don Bosco Agro-Technical School and an increasing number of families who […]
Foto of the Week: Dancer at the Celebrate Armenia Festival
An Armenian-Argentine woman from the dance troupe, Masis, prepares to go on stage at the Buenos Aires Celebrates Armenia Festival. With an estimated 120,000, Buenos Aires is home to the largest population of Armenian descendents in all of South America. Armenians began in arriving in Argentina during the First World War after escaping the genocide […]
