Book the Victoria Hotel online! One of San Telmo‘s most historic hotels and best-kept secrets is also one of the best bargains for budget travelers, with large private rooms starting at under US$15 per night. When it was built at the turn of the 20th century, the Victoria Hotel was one of the […]
Gay Tango in Buenos Aires: Taking The Milonga Back to its Roots
Tango is the dance that is synonymous with Argentina in most traveler’s minds. Few know, that in its beginning, the dance was frequently practiced between men with no women in sight. When the immigrants landed on the shores of Buenos Aires in the La Boca neighborhood in the late 19th century, there were few […]
Bar Británico: San Telmo’s Historic 24-Hour Hangout
Among the mythical dive bars of Buenos Aires is San Telmo’s enduring Bar Británico. The corner bar facing Parque Lezama first opened in 1928 as ‘La Cosechera’ (The Harvester). From the beginning it was a gathering place for English World War I veterans and railroad workers who lived in the area. It wasn’t long before […]
The Sunday San Telmo Fair
There is always a lot to see and do in ‘The Republic of San Telmo,’ but the colorful Sunday street fair is the bohemian neighborhood’s biggest attraction. The Feria de San Telmo began as a 270-stall antiques market in 1970, and has grown into a huge come-as-you-are street bazaar that draws over 12,000 people every […]
Best of the San Telmo Fair: Tango
San Telmo ‘Tango for Instagram’ Plaza Dorrego, at the corner of Defensa and Humberto Primo, at the very heart of the San Telmo Fair, is the capital of tango as a commodity in Buenos Aires on Sundays. There is often a tango performance here, but once you push past the crowds to see what’s going […]
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