Visiting Buenos Aires

Weeks ago we talked about the attractions of entertainment, dining, cultural and historical. Today we´ll talk about the benefits of staying in this neighborhood for students who choose to pursue their studies in the city of Buenos Aires.

Owing to public transportation in the area ( buses and subways) , Recoleta is one of the most strategic choice as an option during the stay.

Beyond communication with all the district of the city of Buenos Aires and the publics transportation in the area, here we find a lot of important universities that students choose to complete their studies.

Here we present a list of the most important universities and research centers in the city: University of Palermo, UBA Faculty of Medicine , UBA Law School, UBA Faculty of Dentistry, University of Salvador, UBA Faculty of Engineering.

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Recoleta is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the City of Buenos Aires.

It has residential areas, elegant and the most valued in Buenos Aires. It´s characterized by the French style, large green spaces, exclusive avenues, bars and first class restaurants.

Today it´s the most attractive tourist places of the city where we see great site cultural and historical content including: The Recoleta Cemetery, Del Pilar Church, the National Fine Arts Museum, Palais de Glace and the Recoleta Cultural Center, where you can enjoy art exhibitions, painting and photography.

Alojargentina recommends that during your stay to visit the City of Buenos Aires, enjoy the beauty and splendor of this area.

Another commercial Avenue of Buenos Aires

Alvear Avenue goes from Plaza Francia in the neighborhood of Recoleta to the 9 de Julio Avenue, parallel to the del Libertador Avenue.

It is famous for its expensive and exclusive boutiques like Cartier, Ralph Lauren, Armani, Ermenegildo Zegna, etc. The most important shopping mall in the area is “Patio Bullrich”.

This highly exclusive and attractive neighborhood offers the most luxurious 5 star hotels and apartments in Buenos Aires.

We recommend you to visit the neighborhood, where you can find picturesque old mansions and buildings that give the area a Parisian spirit.

We are a few meters away from Santa Fé Avenue.

Alojargentina has moved its temporary rental offices. The new address is Azcuénaga 1077, 5th floor “C”, right next to the important Santa Fé Avenue.

Santa Fé Avenue is famous for its fashion shops that offer the best of the new urban wave.

This “top” avenue goes from downtown to the famous neighborhood of Palermo, running through the neighborhoods of barrio Norte and Recoleta.

On Santa Fé you can find various galleries, shopping malls; Alto Palermo Shopping the most notable found at the height of Coronel Diaz Avenue.

Here you can find famous national and international brands like Kosiuko, Bensimon, Lacoste, and Puma, to name a few.

Santa Fé Avenue also has numerous libraries and music shops like El Ateneo, which includes a library-coffee shop, and Cuspide.

Like all avenues in Buenos Aires it offers many coffee-shops and tea houses like Pertutti and Cinema.

Buenos Aires book shops have a style and special caracteristics.Big and luxurious located on the most important avenues; o specialized on sales and used books, hidden on the neighbourhoods. Its main attraction for the tourist is on the history they represent and mostly on the cultural and relaxing space they offer. Other interesting characteristic is that many porteñas book shops are located on historical and valuable buildings. Go through the book shoops, search for books on shelves, talk to the owners it s a perfect way to know and understand the city and it s habits. In 1750 the first book sellers had established in Buenos Aires.

There were stores that, besides other stuff, such as food or medicine, sold books. One of them was located at the corner of Alsina y Bolivar. On that same corner is now today Libreria de Avila, the only store in the city that maintains it location and stuff since the colonial times. During the 20^Th century many important bookshops and publishing houses were open, such us “Librería de la Ciudad”, frecuently visit by Jorge Luis Borges, or “El Ateneo-Grand Splendid”, a magnificent and luxurious bookshop located in Santa Fe avenue, which is built in an antique cinema building and that was recently declared the second most important bookshop in the world according to an article in the british newspaper The Guardian. Many bookshops offer spaces for reading with confortable sofas and tables to have a coffee. Spaces where cultural events are performed. The readers can sit and enjoy, or read the book they had chosen from the shelves. Bookshops Tours: The areas where you can find most bookshops in Buenos Aires is Corrientes Avenue, between Callao and 9 de Julio (San Nicolas neighbourhood). There are chains bookshops (Ghandi – Galena, Hernandez, Cúspide), big stores (Losada, Longseller, Lorraine), and many many others. Most of them are dedicate to sales and clearance sale.

In Corrientes, Santa Fe and Juramento avenues and also in shopping centres, there hay big bookshops with the last realisements, and many interesting turistical information and stuff: such us books with photographs, and luxurious editions about tango. In Avenida de Mayo, from 500 until 1200, there are some bookshops that sell strange editions, first editions, old books or books that no longer exists, handwritten, etc.In the area that goes from Suipacha and Corrientes, on directions to San Martin Park, there are fancy bookshops attended by well known booksellers, such us Libreria Casares.

For the ones that prefer doing research on sales tables – mainly in Parque Centenario, Parque Rivadavia or Plaza Italia, are an excellent option to get great copies – used or brand new ones- to cheap prices, both books and magazines