In your average travel bookshop, the Buenos Aires shelf will be sagging under the weight of a thousand and one guides to the city. So Shafik Meghji has invented an apple app – the ‘Buenos Aires *Essential* Guide’. Amelia Jenne checks out if it is as essential as it promises to be.

The country came to the city, as it does every year, at La Rural expo in Palermo. Farmers from all over Argentina gathered in Buenos Aires to show off their prize bulls, heifers, sheep, and horses. Hardcore gauchos and weekend warrior gauchos mixed and mingled as the best of Argentina’s campo was on display in […]

Sarah van den Boogaard visits the Sarmiento Historical Museum in Belgrano to learn more about Argentina’s seventh prsident, who was also an intellectual, world traveller and writer.

This June, the Mataderos Feria turns 25 years old and is celebrating every Sunday (weather depending). Photographers Kate Stanworth and Beatrice Murch share their photos with our readers here.

The first week of June brought the first new transport system in one hundred years to Buenos Aires. Running from Palermo to Liniers, Metrobus began to transport its expected 100,000 daily passengers.

Located on the edge of Collegiales and Palermo, the Mercado de Pulgas is big and full of cool weird people and cool weird stuff. Andy Donohoe shows our readers some of the beautiful chaos.

Marta Minujin created the ‘Torre de Babel’ at Plaza San Martin to celebrate the designation of Buenos Aires as the world capital of books for 2011. Beatrice Murch shares her photos with our readers.

The incessant noise of Buenos Aires can wear down even the strongest minded person. But wedged between the throbbing city and the murky river which stretches across to Uruguay, lies an ecological reserve.

Walking around Buenos Aires is a visual treat. My guidebook, however, can only tell me so much. The Ayres de Arte tour in Retiro is an opportunity to gain some historical context of Calle Arroyo – famous for its many art galleries and swanky feel.

Gone are the days when riding an open-top bus or following a garrulous guide with a rainbow-coloured umbrella were the only ways to tour a city. Buenos Aires is now host to a plethora of options, the best five of which we have sussed out for you: 1. Fileteado Porteño Tour by 054 Fileteado, the […]