The Elegance of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Buenos Aires is considered an Alpha World City as listed by the Loughborough University group's (GaWC) 2008 inventory.

The majority of porteños have European origins, with Italian and Spanish descent being the most common, from the Calabrian, Ligurian, Piedmont, Lombardy and Neapolitan regions of Italy and from the Galician, Asturian, and Basque regions of Spain.[18][19]

Other European origins include German, Swedish, Dutch, Greek, Irish, Norwegian, Portuguese, French, Russian, Croatian, English and Welsh. In the 1990s there was a small wave of immigration from Romania and Ukraine.
There is a minority of old criollo stock, dating back to the Spanish colonial days. The Criollo and Spanish-aboriginal (mestizo) population in the city has increased mostly as a result of immigration, from countries such as Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay, since the second half of the 20th century.

Important Syrian-Lebanese and Armenian communities have had a significant presence in commerce and civic life since the beginning of the 20th century.

The Jewish community in Greater Buenos Aires numbers around 250,000, and is the largest in Latin America. Most are of Northern and Eastern European Ashkenazi origin, primarily Russian, German and Polish Jews, with a significant Sephardic minority, mostly made up of Syrian Jews.[21]

The first major East Asian community in Buenos Aires was the Japanese, mainly from Okinawa. Traditionally, Japanese-Argentines were noted as flower growers; in the city proper, there was a Japanese near-monopoly in dry cleaning. Later generations have branched out into all fields of economic activity. Starting in the 1970s there has been an important influx of immigration from China and Korea

British and American expatriates
The Metropolitan Cathedral Since 2004 an increasing number of American and British citizens are moving to Buenos Aires, possibly due to the lower cost of living, many of them opening up businesses and some restaurants have become English-speaking favourites

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[marinha63]

Me gustó mucho tu video, excelente trabajo ! La Buenos Aires linda, refinada, culta, alegre, luminosa, que muchas veces no tenemos tiempo de admirar ni de disfrutar. Comparto tus respuestas y comentarios, cordiales saludos, Mara.

[Argendiego]

@marinha63 Gracias Mara por tu comentario...

saludos!.

Diego.

[luis12025]

Exelentes fotos,......musica equivocada......era mas propio,musica del grandioso Piazzolla!!!

[Argendiego]

@luis12025 no se si cabe el rotulo de "musica equivocada" ,en lo personal creo que la musica es universal ,va mas alla de las fronteras ,coincido en que Piazzolla es grandioso, y no creeria que fuera una musica equivocada si lo escuchara en un video con imagenes de otros paises, de igual forma que la musica clasica le cabe a cualquier imagen sea del pais que fuere...

[ellocopalestino]

@Argendiego no se si "equivocada" estubo correcto.... no para nada porque es sierto, la musica es universal, pero.... no queda muy bien este tema con estas fotos.... :)

[Argendiego]

@ellocopalestino respeto tu opinion pero no la comparto...para mi ese tema le va muy bien al video...

igual gracias por tu punto de vista!...

[daciuss]

This city is so european...in fact, inmo Argentina is the most european country from all the Americas.

[scarletjamable]

So gorgeous, it must be the most romantic, elegant and beautiful city in the world ... so cultivated and refined too.... an architectural paradise!! Beautiful pictures and music.

[ferni1glass]

que european ni european. elegancia Argentina!

[Leilinda084]

HERMOSISIMO VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FELICITACIONES. Soy guìa de turismo de Buenos Aires. Me emocionó....

[chienmechant515]

@daciuss Until a few decades ago In europe it was said of Argentina to be the most american of the european countries. .that says it all but personally i'm also proud of our latin american side with indiginous influence- after all claiming europe to be superior to indians or whoever is not only inmoral it's above all illogic - people in the east - thus indians dont give a shiet for progress because they are not afraid of death - they find peace inside while in west were always looking for it ...

[nec923]

@Argendiego Si , le va muy bien .. después de todo se están mostrando imagenes muy clasicas , de construcciones del tipo inglés y francés .. elegantes como la música clásica .. obviamente que Piazzolla es increíble y elegantisimo me encantaría escucharlo en algún video así .. pero tal vez sería más apropiado para otro tipo de fotos o algún video recorriendo barrios porteños

[Taniasep06]

Toda la Arquitectura de la Europa Neoclasica! en una sola ciudad eso es BS. As,

[Taniasep06]

Es Praga? no!! Es Viena? No!! Es Berlín?!!No!! Es París? NO!!Es Mi Buenos Aires Querido!!

[MrMariosabatini]

I love Buenos Aires...to me is one of the most beautiful cities in the world...