Argentina Vacation Rentals Apartments in Buenos Aires.

The official language of the Republic Argentina is Spanish. In Buenos Aires it sometimes adopts forms such as the so called lunfardo, a local slang.  Many also speak English and some, French or German.

The city of Buenos Aires is the big cosmopolitan gateway to South America where many of the Argentina vacation rental apartments, houses, cottages and condos are located. Modern, dynamic, bustling with activity, and full of history, this great capital of the Argentinean republic, however, has managed to conserve old traditions and unforgettable small niches. It fascinates the traveller with its ambience, with the very different personalities of each of its barrios or neighborhoods, with the kindness of its people and its ample offering of Argentina vacation rental apartments, cottages, houses, condos, and cultural events as well as shopping opportunities.

 "La Reina del Plata" The Queen of Silver (of the Rio de La Plata) as it is also known, will not cease to surprise the visitor with its contrasts. Here you will find the fondness felt for your local barrio or neighborhood, the melancholic tango, the never ending discussions over a cup of coffee, side by side with the mirror surface windows of modern buildings and mobile phones. It is also the most elegant city in South America, and the city that best expresses the varied and dissimilar essence of Argentina itself.

It was founded by the Spaniards on no less than two occasions. In 1536 Pedro de Mendoza gave it the name of Santa María del Buen Ayre, using the same name for the fortress he had built to defend it, both in honour of the Sardinian Virgin venerated by sailors. In 1580, Juan de Garay foundet it for the second time.

Some believe that the first foundation took place in la Vuelta de Rocha (La Boca), although others argue that it was in the Parque Lezama (San Telmo), where the river came to at that time (all the way to the present day Avenida Leandro N. Alem. This area has later been regained from the waters.

Thus the city was born, lost in contemplation between the port and the river, wide and muddy, but in the XIXth century it grew, in a European dream of refinement, with wide boulevards, tree shadowed streets, with mansions and public buildings designed by famous architects.
 
Located on the banks of the Río de La Plata, and surrounded by the splendour of the Argentinean countryside, you will here find a harmonious mix of old buildings like colonial time mansions, with modern skyscrapers and museums, theatres and coffee shops. And its population has grown due to the constant waves of immigrants, mainly of European stock, all which has given it a very interesting cultural framework.

La Reina del Plata, surrounded by the Province of Buenos Aires on one side and the Río de La Plata river on the other, proudly proclaims itself to be the "City that never sleeps". For those that enjoy night life there are restaurants and pastry shops open 24 hours a day. You can even go shopping until midnight in many commercial malls and shops.

Buenos Aires offers a great panoply of attractions: monuments, churches, museums, art galleries and theatres; plazas, parks and gardens with old trees, characteristic barrios or neighbourhoods, big shopping malls, traditional and modern style hotels, restaurants offering local and international cuisine.

It is connected to the rest of the country and the world by large transport network, with hubs like the port which receives cruise ships and ferries, two airports- one international called Ezeiza, located 22 kilometres (18 miles) from El Obelisco, the obelisk that traditionally marks the centre of the city.

There is a also a feeder and domestic lines airport six kilometres (4 miles) from the centre. There are railroad connections, highways, National Routes and a bus terminal for public domestic transport of passengers only a little more than a kilometre away from the city centre.

Its sheer size obliges the traveller to plan well his (or her) visit. Without a good guide, the city may look like a disperse and unconnected place. We therefore suggest to choose different tours according to the time that the traveller has available for his visit.

Argentina with its Argentina vacation rental houses, apartments, condos and houses has six major regions. They are as follows:

Cuyo & the Andean Northwest
This area surrounding the Andes began as a colony of Peru, but today only a few miners and herders occupy this unforgiving region of volcanic peaks and salt lakes. Very little rain falls in Cuyo, though to the east are found the fertile river valleys and subtropical lowlands of the Gran Chaco.

Mesopotamia & the Northeast
Mesopotamia, a broad, flat plain between the Parana and Uraguay Rivers in northern Argentina, is wet, swampy and extremely hot during the summer. The northern province of Misiones, a more mountainous region nearly enclosed by Brazil and Paraguay, is densely forested and contains a section of the majestic Iguazu Falls.

The Chaco
This parched area in the west is part of the enormous Gran Chaco, a region that Argentina shares with Bolivia, Paraguay, and Brazil. The Chaco contains both grassland and thorny forest.

The Pampas
These fertile plains are Argentina's bread- basket. They consist of the Humid Pampas along the seaboard and the Dry Pampas in the west and south. The region includes Buenos Aires, as well as the world- class beaches of its surrounding area.

Patagonia and the Lake District
South of the Rio Colorado, experiences a desert climate, although temperatures range from mild to subzero and terrain varies from bucolic river valleys to the gigantic, ice-capped southern Andes. Its cool grazing grounds support enormous flocks of sheep, and numerous fruit and vegetable farms can be found in the valleys. Patagonia also holds vast reserves of oil and coal.