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StreetSmart (R) Buenos Aires Map is a laminated city center map of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The accordion-fold pocket-size travel map is pocket sized and water proof. The map is 9 x 4 inches closed and 9 x 32 open. It maps all top attractions including museums, architecture, bookstores, cafes, salones de milonga, tango clubs, hotels, beaches, and parks - all at an immensely legible scale, complete with 3-D building illustrations. Clear information design allows users to read the map from three feet away and has earned VanDam maps a place in the MoMA Collection. Contents: Main Buenos Aires map, 1:29,000 Centro Map 1:18,500 Regional Buenos Aires Map: 1:500,000 Buenos Aires City Limits Map: 1:88,000 Subte Transit Map Diagram StreetSmart (R) Buenos Aires includes a stunning dimensional detail of El Centro plus covers all neighborhoods from Almagro to Villa Crespo. A Buenos Aires Regional Map for excursions across the River Platte to Uruguay and a Metro Transit map are also included. Start with steak, so tender you will cut it with your spoon, at El Pobre Luis in Belgrano then try to see Leo Sujatovich play tango jazz at the local synagogue. Take in El Caminito in La Boca, a narrow alley filled with music and flanked by painted zinc shacks, then attend a game of soccer at La Bombonera the home of Boca Juniors soccer club where Maradona became God. Stroll through stylish Recoletas famed cemetery to visit the Evita Peron mausoleum patrolled by black cats then window shop its fancy boutiques before heading south to the clubs and bars of San Telmo. Tango dancing starts at midnight in Palermo Hollywood and Palermo Soho. If you need dancing shoes head to Calle Suipacha for the perfect pair to practice your back ochos.Culture tip: If you have never experienced Tango Brujo, gay tango, try to catch a performance of Martin Maldonado and Maurizo Ghella. It is the original art form invented on the Buenos Aires docks and danced by men only due to the lack of women. Transforming is the moment when power shifts as one dancer hands over the lead to his partner. It feels more authentic, classy and elegant than the heterosexual version which Carlos Saura, the film maker, described as the pimp dancing with his whore and she hates him. StreetSmart (R) Buenos Aires: Simplicity reigns supreme in information design to make complex cities clear and understandable. Our typography creates character and reveals the true bones of the city. Buenos Aires is unique in many ways. What appears as an urban grid city plan turns out to be a web of a city with its back turned toward to river. Providing context is essential to understanding and navigating BA. Get instant Porteno StreetSmarts when you buy this map.

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