A young tango dancer performs outside an old world café in the bohemian district of San Telmo, Buenos Aires. It's not uncommon stumble across many a "tanguero" busking for change across the capital city.
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A young tango dancer performs outside an old world café in the bohemian district of San Telmo, Buenos Aires. It's not uncommon stumble across many a "tanguero" busking for change across the capital city.
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A glimpse inside the "Galeria del Tango Argentino," one of the most famous bar-restaurants offering a tango show to its customers.
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A glimpse inside the "Galeria del Tango Argentino," one of the most famous bar-restaurants offering a tango show to its customers.
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Despite a brief stint in the 60s, when young locals began to favour the imported sounds of rock music, tango has remained unstoppably popular in the city of its birth. Today, tango bars (known as "milongas") pack the avenues and boulevards.
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Despite a brief stint in the 60s, when young locals began to favour the imported sounds of rock music, tango has remained unstoppably popular in the city of its birth. Today, tango bars (known as "milongas") pack the avenues and boulevards.
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Famed for its elaborate row of colorful houses, Caminito Street inspired the violinist and composer Juan de Dios Filiberto to create his famous tango "Caminito."
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Famed for its elaborate row of colorful houses, Caminito Street inspired the violinist and composer Juan de Dios Filiberto to create his famous tango "Caminito."
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An old couple dressed in immaculate 1920s garments do the tango in the middle of San Telmo street while a young boy looks on. Migdalia Romero, author of the "Tango Lover's Guide to Buenos Aires" says that, to this day, tango is loved by all generations across the city.
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An old couple dressed in immaculate 1920s garments do the tango in the middle of San Telmo street while a young boy looks on. Migdalia Romero, author of the "Tango Lover's Guide to Buenos Aires" says that, to this day, tango is loved by all generations across the city.
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Indeed, it's not uncommon for entire streets to be taken up with couples embraced in the dance. This image was taken in the Boedo neighborhood of Buenos Aires, on the day that the U.N. declared the tango tradition of Argentina and Uruguay a world cultural treasure, adding its sultry dance steps and melancholy song lyrics to UNESCO's heritage list.
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Indeed, it's not uncommon for entire streets to be taken up with couples embraced in the dance. This image was taken in the Boedo neighborhood of Buenos Aires, on the day that the U.N. declared the tango tradition of Argentina and Uruguay a world cultural treasure, adding its sultry dance steps and melancholy song lyrics to UNESCO's heritage list.
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A tango dancer changes her boots for high-heeled shoes before a performance at Caminito Street in the La Boca neighborhood -- widely known for the football club Boca Juniors -- and for its vivid tango-themed murals.
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A tango dancer changes her boots for high-heeled shoes before a performance at Caminito Street in the La Boca neighborhood -- widely known for the football club Boca Juniors -- and for its vivid tango-themed murals.
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A shot from 2007 shows workers installing the first monument in the world dedicated to tango. The two ton and five-meter-tall metallic structure represents a bandoneon (type of concertina), a typical instrument used in tango.
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A shot from 2007 shows workers installing the first monument in the world dedicated to tango. The two ton and five-meter-tall metallic structure represents a bandoneon (type of concertina), a typical instrument used in tango.
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View of traditional 'bandoneones' on display at the Museo del Bandoneon in Buenos Aires.
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View of traditional 'bandoneones' on display at the Museo del Bandoneon in Buenos Aires.
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Monuments to legendary tango singer and composer Carlos Gardel are scattered around the former fruit and vegetable market area of Abasto, in the Balvanera neighborhood. Here, fans of Gardel leave flowers at his grave at a rally in June 2010 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of his death.
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Monuments to legendary tango singer and composer Carlos Gardel are scattered around the former fruit and vegetable market area of Abasto, in the Balvanera neighborhood. Here, fans of Gardel leave flowers at his grave at a rally in June 2010 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of his death.
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Tango is so loved in Buenos Aires that it is even used as a form of therapy. Here a nurse and a patient dance during a "tango-therapy" session at Borda psychiatric hospital.
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Tango is so loved in Buenos Aires that it is even used as a form of therapy. Here a nurse and a patient dance during a "tango-therapy" session at Borda psychiatric hospital.
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Those traveling to Buenos Aires in August will be lucky enough to catch the annual Tango Dance World Championship, where hundreds of couples dance it out to be crowned the official tango champions of the world.
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Those traveling to Buenos Aires in August will be lucky enough to catch the annual Tango Dance World Championship, where hundreds of couples dance it out to be crowned the official tango champions of the world.
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In this picture, Uruguayan couple Jose Salvo and Maria Sciuto dance at the Tango Dance World Championship in Buenos Aires, 2011.
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In this picture, Uruguayan couple Jose Salvo and Maria Sciuto dance at the Tango Dance World Championship in Buenos Aires, 2011.
Tango has also been heartily embraced by the city's gay community. Aside from going to tango club nights and bars dedicated to gay tangueros, you can even buy souvenirs of tango dancers kissing Argentine footballers, originally sold during the Gay Football World Championship in Buenos Aires in 2007.
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Tango has also been heartily embraced by the city's gay community. Aside from going to tango club nights and bars dedicated to gay tangueros, you can even buy souvenirs of tango dancers kissing Argentine footballers, originally sold during the Gay Football World Championship in Buenos Aires in 2007.
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