Ski Centers in Argentina

Catedral Ski Center Cerro Catedral is located in the Nahuel Huapi National Park, surrounded by a unique landscape of lakes and mountains, and only a 19 Km paved route away from San Carlos de Bariloche, a city with lodging and food infrastructure at the most demanding international tourism level.

Chapelco Ski Center Chapelco is one of the most attractive places to enjoy the splendor of snow, with the incomparable Andes mountain range in the background, and panoramic views of lake Lácar and the volcano Lanín in all directions.

Las LeñasSki Center Valle de Las Leñas is located in the middle of the Andes mountain range, in the province of Mendoza, and 2,240 meters above sea level. It is surrounded by the mounts Torrecillas, El Collar, Ponce, Las Leñas, Entre Ríos, Martín and Los Fósiles. Read more about Ski Centers on Buenos Aires Times.

Embassies List in BA

ALEMANIA

Consulado: Villanueva 1055
Horario de atención: Lunes a viernes de 8.30 a 11 hs
4778-2500
Fax: 4778-2550

AUSTRALIA

Cancillería: Villanueva 1400
(1426) Cap. Fed.
4777-6580 al 85
Fax: 4772-3349

SUECIA

Cancillería: Tacuarí 147 Piso 6
(1071) Cap. Fed.
4342-1422
Fax: 4342-1697

SUIZA

Cancillería: Santa Fe 846 Piso 10
(1059) Cap. Fed.
4311-6491 al 95
Fax: 4313-2998

UNION EUROPEA

Cancillería: Ayacucho 1537
(1112) Cap. Fed.
4805-3759
Fax: 4801-1594

URUGUAY

Cancillería: Av. Las Heras 1097
(1127) Cap. Fed.
4807-3041/40/60/61
Fax: 4807-3050

VENEZUELA

Cancillería: Virrey Loreto 2035
(1428) Cap. Fed.
4785-2226
Fax: 4784-4311

ESTADOS UNIDOS

Cancillería: Av. Colombia 4300
(1425) Cap. Fed.
4777-4533/34/46/40/05

FRANCIA

Cancillería: Cerrito 1399 (1010) Cap. Fed.
4819-2930
Fax: 4393-1235

Find out where your embassy is on Buenos Aires Times.

Argentina national football team

The Argentina national football team is the national football team of Argentina and is controlled by the Argentine Football Association (AFA). Argentina has won most international titles by any national team - 19, a record shared with Uruguay.

Argentina is one of the most successful national football teams in the world, and is currently eighth in the FIFA world rankings. The team has twice won the FIFA World Cup, in 1978 and 1986. Argentina has won the Copa América 14 times, a record shared with Uruguay, won the Confederations Cup in 1992 and the Olympic Football Tournament in 2004 and 2008.

Argentina and France are the only national teams which have won the three most important men's titles recognized by FIFA: the World Cup, the Confederations Cup, and the Olympic tournament. They have both also won their respective continental championship (Copa América for Argentina, and UEFA European Football Championship for France).

Keep reading about Argentina's football league on Wikipedia.

Glaciar Perito Moreno, Argentina falling down. It's awesome!

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Places you can't miss in Cordoba

1. Capilla Doméstica

The Capilla Doméstica, completed in 1644, sits directly behind the church on Caseros. Its ornate ceiling was made with cowhide stretched over a skeleton of thick taguaro cane and painted with pigments composed partially of boiled bones. Guided visits leave from inside the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.

2. Colegio Nacional de Monserrat

Next door to the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, the Colegio Nacional de Monserrat dates from 1782, though the college itself was founded in 1687 and transferred after the Jesuit expulsion. Though the interior cloisters are original, the exterior was considerably modified in 1927 by restoring architect Jaime Roca, who gave the building its present baroque flare.

3. Cripta Jesuítica

The Jesuits, at the beginning of the 18th century, built the Cripta Jesuítica. It was originally designed as a novitiate and later converted to a crypt and crematorium. Abandoned after the Jesuit expulsion, it was demolished and buried around 1829 when the city, while expanding Av Colón, knocked the roof into the subterranean naves and built over the entire structure. It remained all but forgotten until Telecom, while laying underground telephone cable in 1989, accidentally ran into it.

4. Iglesia Catedral

The construction of Córdoba's cathedral began in 1577 and dragged on for more than two centuries under several architects, including Jesuits and Franciscans, and though it lacks any sense of architectural unity, it's a beautiful structure. Crowned by a Romanesque dome, it overlooks Plaza San Martín, at Independencia and 27 de Abril. The lavish interior was painted by renowned cordobés (Córdoban) painter Emilio Caraffa.

5. Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús

Designed by the Flemish Padre Philippe Lemaire, the Manzana Jesuítica Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús dates from 1645 but was not completed until 1671, with the successful execution of Lemaire's plan for a cedar roof in the form of an inverted ship's hull. Lemaire was once, unsurprisingly, a boat builder. Inside, the church's baroque altarpiece is made from carved Paraguayan cedar from Misiones province.

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Your Planet Ambassador Program

Description: The YouPlanet Ambassador program enables you to earn money while traveling. As a YouPlanet ambassador, you will approach hotels, restaurants and experience providers and offer them the opportunity to become partners which will enable them to reach travelers worldwide. The Partner pays a yearly fee of which you as an ambassador get a large share, transferred directly to your online e-wallet account.

By being a YouPlanet ambassador, you can travel to places around the world earning instead of spending money. With only a few sign-ups every week you will earn more than enough money to explore the world.

Highlights: We want three things with YouPlanet:

- Enable our users to earn money while they are out traveling

- Our users to have access to a great travel community where they, among other things, will be able to find updated information from smaller hotels, hostels, restaurants and experience providers

- Let these smaller hotels, hostels, restaurants, and experienced providers get online with tools they manage themselves and reach an international base of travelers that has not been accessible before.

Therefore we have created the YouPlanet ambassador program. You will get the chance to finance your trip - while you are on the road!

Qualifications: Social, English language skills

Job Types :

Marketing, Ad, PR Sales Tourism

Salary / Pay: Provision based salary - up to 60 euros per sale!

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to American, Australian, Canadian, European, Kiwi, South African and Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel Independently.

For more info, visit Jobs Abroad.

Valles Calchaquíes. Go visit the North of the country!!!

This immense extension of land including the provinces of Catamarca, Tucumán, and Salta offers a marvelous landscape, winding roads, and coloured hillsides. In each of the small villages lying in the valleys, our ancestors seem to have left their traces engraved on the rocks.

Santa María, “Capital of the Calchaquíes Valleys”, was one of the main settlements of the millenary Yocavile Indian tribe, and many remains of this culture can be found today in this picturesque town.

Tucumán’s strikingly beautiful jungle is part of the valleys’ amazing landscape. Rivers, waterfalls, and rapids run through Tafi del Valle, located at 1,976 meters above sea level. This region was inhabited thousands of years ago, and its valleys are rich in archaeological remains. El Mollar, a summertime villa, is lined with lush, green valleys. Amaicha del Valle, surrounded by bright reddish hills, is typically known for its religious ceremonies.

In Cafayate, San Carlos, Angastaco, Molinos y Cachi, Spanish traditions and customs are still kept, specially in relation to art, architecture, as well as religious imagery.

Visit the Secretariat of Tourism.

Maradona by Kusturica (movie)

This is Maradona as the two-time Palme Dor winner Emir Kusturica sees him: the revolutionary, the footballer, the man, the God, the family man, the drug-addict, the legend. Acclaimed filmmaker Emir Kusturica traces the remarkable story of soccer legend Diego Maradona in this documentary featuring music by composer Manu Chao and Sex Pistols. Maradona has a reputation as the people's champion, an athlete who rose from humble beginnings to achieve worldwide fame, and who has overcome incredible adversity to become a living legend. As the director and his subject grow increasingly intimate, Maradona reveals details about his life that have never come to light in the public eye. A tour of the places that mean the most to Maradona offer a unique look at the way the soccer star was shaped by his surroundings, and conversations with the people closest to him offer a unique glimpse into his colorful personality. A conversation with Cuban leader Fidel Castro highlights how even the most powerful personalities become awestruck while speaking with Maradona. This is Kusturica's most expressive in form and the most radical in content since at least Black Cat, White Cat where Kusturica values Maradona not only as a virtuoso player but as man with a political view.

Read more on IMDb.

What to visit in Buenos Aires

Congreso / Avenida de Mayo / Plaza de Mayo

Small “plazas” that lead to the largest one at the front of the Congress building. Each of these plazas has its own monument or statue."Le penseur" by Rodin and "The Monument of the Two Congresses” an allegory that represents the Andes range, the main rivers and the plains.
Avenida de Mayo runs from the Congress to the Plaza de Mayo. It is a wide tree- lined avenue which marked Buenos Aires` transformation from a big village to a modern city. The magnificence of the once rich country shown in the buildings along this avenue. A must see stop: the “Tortoni”

The Plaza de Mayo was in colonial times the political, economic, social and cultural site of the city and the buildings still reflect the way the country developed in the late XIX and early XX century. For the Argentines, this Square brings back memories of historic events and vivid Images of the very near past.

La Boca / San Telmo

La Boca is a heavily toured district that fascinates visitors with its bright yellow, red and blue houses. The old tenements where dozens of families shared home and the tango spirit along“ Caminito Street”.

San Telmo`s current bohemian character stands out at the antique fair held in its most popular place, plaza Dorrego. Area where the rich families had comfortable homes they abandoned later. See the dancers move amid the crowd to the music of tangos and milongas.

Palermo Viejo

Palermo Viejo, keeper of the best porteno traditions, where large centuries old houses, aged trees and magical flowered and perfumed alleys are a refugee for artists, designers and bohemians.At the very beginning, a middle - class outskirt, worthy of tango lyrics and of the pen of writers. Nowardays, Palermo Viejo houses the bohemian and creative spirit of the city: antique shops blend with modern aesthetic avant garde designs, while a great variety of bars and restaurants featuring different styles in this neighbourhood.

Recoleta district

Today this is the most expensive real estate in the country. Beginning of the XX Century, it was built to be the "Paris of South America". Well designed avenues, big mansions, spacious green areas.The best shopping area in the city. The star of the district for the tourists is, no doubt, the Cemetery Surrounding this "City of the Angels" the Recoleta Cemetery has hundreds of mausoleums and tombs crowded onto each street. The central streets are treelined, while other outlying streets have little light and room. The most visited mausoleum Eva Péron ("Evita") , to the pride of the commoners who loved her, and unhappiness of the elite classes she alienated.

Retiro Area: Plaza San Martin`s big mansions - Florida Street.

This area is the most frequented one by the foreign tourists because most of the main hotels in the city are there and plenty of the best shops can be found in its surroundings. The famous Arg. Big Ben donated by the British Community to the government of the city of Buenos Aires.Not many of the tourists discover a wonderful Basilica or visit the several Mansions built by the wealthy class who enjoyed living in Palaces in the turn of the century. Shopping area but also a beautiful neighbourhood to walk.

Keep reading on Argentina Tourism.

This is the Northwest of Argentina.

This video shows the very best places you can visit in Salta, Jujuy, Tucuman and Catamarca provinces.



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