On a three week tour of Argentina, my friend and I had about a day and half in Buenos Aires and we wanted to make the most of it. We also went to the Carlos Gardel Tango show recommended by you. A tango show might be touristy bu
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Valid from: January to september 2012 Minimun: 2 people
At la Ventana Restaurant
Daily Round trip transfers and Touristic Menu Dinner with drinks included. Pick up around 19:30 -Duration 4 1/2 hours Shared Service.
The various Tango Houses, located in San Telmo, offer the possibility of admiring all qualities of tango in its different expressions. First category of tango dancers and singers as well as a tango orchestras, will let you enjoy and feel this particular Buenos Aires music at its utmost while having a drink or a wonderful dinner. Andean music, as well as typical argentine folk music, will also be performed to fulfil your expectations. Born around 1880, the tango was the vulgar dance and music of the capital's "arrabales" or lower class neighbourhoods, blending gaucho verse with Spanish and Italian music. Carlos Gardel, the best representative of Tango music and singers, created the "tango-cancion" (tango song), taking it out from the brothels and tenements and into the salons of Buenos Aires. In the late 19th century the "Great Village of Buenos Aires" was becoming an immigrant city, where frustrated and melancholic Europeans displaced gaucho rustics, who retreated gradually to the ever more distant countryside. The children of those immigrants would become the first generation of "porteños", and the tango-song summarized the new urban style. Permeated with nostalgia over a disappearing way of life, the tango-show expressed the apprehensions and anxieties of individuals, ranging from mundane pastimes like horse racing and other popular diversions to more profound feelings towards the changing landscape of neighbourhood and community, the figure of the mother, betrayal by women, and friendship or other important personal concerns. Dinner & Tango Show: Round trip transfers and Touristic Menu Dinner with drinks included. Pick up around 19:30
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