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Understand Buenos Aires
Economic ups and downs, 'Queen Cristina' and culinary novelties - Buenos Aires never
bores.
Spanish colonialism, fierce independence, the golden years and the Dirty War - and all that
before the roller-coaster economic years.
Tango is only one facet of Buenos Aires' music; there are also rock, folk, jazz and electron-
ica.
Over the last century, Argentina has produced many famous writers (think Jorge Luis
Borges), along with two Oscar-winning movies.
Arts runs rampant in Buenos Aires, from sophisticated street graffiti to abstract installa-
tions. And BA's gorgeous European architecture often surprises newcomers.
