Buenos Aires Pictures

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Lunch with passion in Gitanos, La Boca, Buenos Aires.

The tango was probably conceived in Buenos Aires' La Boca district in the 1880's by working-class immigrants of Italian or Spanish extraction. The dance, originally a form of male bonding and a way to alleviate the boredom while waiting for the attention of prostitutes, the tango soon developed into a macho sexual prelude, a dramatic and dominant hors d'oeuvre with a paid partner.
Naturally the upstanding and Victorian citizens of BA, Porteños, were outraged by this disgusting display of outright sensuality, but younger members of the high society took the dance to their hearts and then to the world so that by 1913 it had become a respectable - though still sensuous - world famous dance. The golden age of tango had arrived.

One of the better subte [metro] trains, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

While the Argentina capital's tube trains don't run everywhere, the lines that are available are efficient, regular, easy to use, cheap and safe, though they close down from 11pm to 6am.
They can be also quite entertaining...

Extraordinary tiling and superb flamenco music at Callao subte station, B line, Buenos Aires.

More formal but equally bizarre mythological tiling at Bulnes subte station, D line, Buenos Aires.

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