Monday, July 23, 2012

Dental Tourism in Buenos Aires, Argentina


Dental Tourism in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dental tourism is traveling to an attractive destination to visit and relax, and at the same time, cheap to make dental or dental treatment expensive. The idea is to travel and visit the dentist. Currently the difference in the exchange rate Euro-dollar, principally, Euro and Latin American currencies, benefit this alternative tourism.

It is important to add that the level of professionals specialized in laos many of these countries is very high and have the technology needed for any type of dental treatment, dental and maxillofacial. Surgery, endodontics, orthodontics. The advertised destinations are Argentina (Buenos Aires, Cordoba and Rosario), Guatemala, Costa Rica, Hungary, among others.

Make the most of your visit to Argentina, enjoy all the magnificent sights the city has to offer.

In Tigre: boat trips, Puerto de Frutos. Puerto Madero: Gourmet Tour. San Telmo antiques and cultural tours. La Boca: Caminito Tango. Shopping Tours.

The tango, European architecture, cultural sites, historical tours, exquisite cuisine and the wide range of accommodation, along with unique tourist attractions in South America will make your trip a true medical destination. There is much to discover, learn and enjoy. We invite you to try a different journey.

Palermo / Belgrano

Bosques de Palermo

With over 80 landscaped acres, is one of the largest green areas of Buenos Aires. The Buenos Aires visit the park for picnics and sports. The park has two artificial lakes that can be traveled by boat or water bikes. The park has about 12,000 trees, many of which are tipas, eucalyptus logging and ombúes. In the vicinity of the park in the Netherlands is located square "Rose Garden": a garden with more than 12,000 roses.

Plaza Cortázar

Located in Palermo Viejo, this little place is popularly known as the "Placita Serrano". In 1994 it was renamed "Plaza Cortázar" as a tribute to Argentine writer (1914-1984) which placed many of his stories in the neighborhood (for example, "drills"). During the eighties, many fashionable bars and restaurants around the square opened, today modern shops and clothing are multiplied by the area.

Palermo SOHO / Palermo Hollywood

With its artistic and bohemian style, Palermo SOHO is an area of ​​a lot of activity both day and night, especially during the weekends. The locals and tourists visit for its bars (some have musical shows or plays), restaurants (ranging from relatively inexpensive food to haute cuisine), and designer shops, clothing or furnishings. The recent practice of renaming certain areas of Palermo lies north of the Plaza Cortázar: the other side of the tracks are located "Palermo Hollywood", an area of ​​television and movie studios, producers and radios. The streets of Palermo Hollywood is full of visitors looking for trendy bars and restaurants of international or ethnic food.

Chinatown

This area emerged during the 1980s when they settled in the Eastern immigrant families, especially in Taiwan. The great cultural cuisine and make it visited by thousands of people every day: restaurants, markets Oriental products, excellent fishmongers and greengrocers, shops manga and anime (Japanese comic books and videos), decorative objects, etc.. Among other religious buildings is one of the few Buddhist temples in the city (Temple Chong Kuan, Mountaineers 2175).

Malba

The Malba is one of the most modern museums in Buenos Aires, has in its collection more than 200 pieces (paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs and other objects) created by American artists of the 20th century. The building is clad in limestone with large areas covered with glass and steel. Among many others, the museum contains works by Frida Kahlo, Wilfredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Diego Rivera, Joaquín Torres-García, Antonio Berni, Emiliano Di Cavalcanti, Jorge de la Vega, Tarsila do Amaral, Pedro Figari, Lygia Clark, Helio Oiticica Liliana Porter, Guillermo Kuitca, and Jose Bedia Valdés. The museum also has a cinema, a café, a souvenir shop and a bookstore.

River Plate Stadium

This stadium is popularly known as "El Monumental". He was one of the first big stadiums in South America with a capacity of 70000 spectators. Other improvements have expanded their current capacity to 76,609, the largest in the country. The national team played in this stadium is also home to massive musical events.

Campo Argentino de Polo

The horses (ponies) and Argentine polo players are considered among the best in the world. This stage is known as "The Cathedral of Polo". The stadium has a capacity of 30,000 spectators and is used for musical events, dog and hockey games. Among the teams in the country, we can name "The Dolfina", "Chapaleufú Indians", "Ellerstina" and "La Aguada". The Argentine Open Polo Championship, the most important tournament in the world, begins in late November.

Palermo Hippodrome

This is the most historic racetrack in Latin America. Its sandy track of 2400 meters is among the most in the world. His most famous fan was Carlos Gardel, who used to sing in the studs of Palermo and was also the owner of the horse "Lunatic". This Uruguayan jockey rider Leguisamo Irenaeus, one of the most notorious of history. The racecourse has three platforms: the Special Officer (the most sophisticated of all, built in 1908 by French architect Dujarric) and Paddock, near the roundabout boxes and display. In Palermo in November there is the "Great National Prize", the great Argentine classic, and the final race of the "Triple Crown" (made also by cocks fillies and colts and the Jockey Club).

Zoological

In 1888, the city of Buenos Aires ruled that part of the Parque Tres de Febrero (Bosques de Palermo) was to be transferred to a zoo. When opened, it had 650 different specimens of 53 species from around the world. The zoo is 18 acres and since its privatization in 1991 had a major redesign. Have an aquarium (with seals, penguins, sharks and tropical fish), a reptile house and a promenade that mimics the environment of the subtropical jungle.

Botanical garden

The park is 7 hectares and is home to 6000 plant species, a botanical library, three-style gardens (one French, one Roman and one Japanese), a herbarium, five greenhouses, an English-style mansion and 31 sculptures.

The French landscape architect Carlos Thays, who created the plans for the most important areas of Buenos Aires, who designed the park was opened in 1898. It has some copies of ancient trees, and gals, cedar Salta, ibirá-Puit, Chichita, quebracho and Aguaribay carnivals. It also has foreign species such as redwoods, magnolias, oaks, plane trees and gingko.

Recoleta / Barrio Norte

National Museum of Fine Arts

The collection of the MNBA is the nation's largest and one of the most notorious in Latin America. The most important parts of El Greco, Rodin, Goya, Renoir, Degas, Cézanne and Picasso among others. Is the museum of fine arts in the country, and is among the largest in the world, Argentine art collection is the largest in the world. Argentine authors, there are works of Candido Lopez, Spilimbergo, Pueyrredón, Fader, Quinquela Martin, Xul Solar, Berni, Alonso de la Vega, Gorriarena, Segui and many others. The museum has a photographic room, a pre-Columbian Andean art, two sculpture terraces and a library with more than 150000 copies.

Recoleta Cemetery

This was the first public cemetery in the city today is the most elegant and aristocratic. In his nearly 6 acres is the resting place of heroes, presidents, politicians, soldiers, scientists, artists and celebrities.

Montserrat / San Nicolás

Obelisk

The obelisk evokes in each of its sides a historic Buenos Aires: the first foundation in 1536, the second and final of 1580, the date on which the national flag was hoisted for the first time in the city in 1812 (in the church of San Nicholas, who occupied the place where today stands the Obelisk), and the constitution of Argentina capital Buenos Aires in 1880.

Avenida Corrientes

One of the most representative avenues of Buenos Aires, and one of the most loved by the locals. Corrientes Avenue is the bookstores, cafes, theaters and pizzerias.

Teatro Colón

One of the most important opera houses in the world. During the twentieth century, directors, singers and dancers of the era's most important act in your scenario. The dome was decorated by the Argentine painter Raul Soldi. The theater has a cast, a corps de ballet, orchestras, workshops, design sets and costumes, a library and a museum. It has 3542 seats and a standing capacity for 700 spectators.

Some of the composers who passed through the theater are Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Camille Saint-Saëns, Manuel de Falla, Aaron Copland, among others.

Some of the directors are: Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta and Daniel Barenboim. The long list of singers include Enrico Caruso, Fedor Caliapin, Titta Ruffo, Maria Callas, Montserrat Caballé, Alfredo Kraus, Jose Carreras, Kiri Te Kanawa, Placido Domingo and Samuel Ramey. Among the dancers acted Anna Pavlova, Vaslav Nijinsky, Rudolf Nureyev, Maya Plisetskaya, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Antonio Gades, Jorge Donn, Julio Bocca, Maximiliano Guerra and Paloma Herrera.

Teatro San Martín

One of the most modern and well-known theaters in Latin America. It is part of Buenos Aires theater complex that is under the direction of city government. It opened in 1944 under the name "Teatro Municipal", in 1950 renamed it "General San Martin" and in 1954 began construction of the new building was completed in 1960. The structure of 14 floors and 4 basements is concrete, glass and blacksmithing.

San Martin theater has three stages (the most prestigious in the city), a film done is done cinema (especially independent film), several rooms for exhibits, and a picture gallery of over 300 square meters. It also has a school of dramatic art and stage workshops, props, costumes and special effects workshops among others. It has two stable: the Contemporary Ballet and the group "Puppeteers", both precursors are groups in the country.

Café Tortoni

It is the oldest café in town that still has its doors open. The marble and wood tables, old photos on the walls, its traditional menu, the waiters and customers Buenos Aires making it the archetype of the bar in Buenos Aires.

Since the early twentieth century, Tortoni was the place chosen by artists, politicians and office workers from downtown. It was frequented by Jorge Luis Borges, Luigi Pirandello, Lorca, Julio Cortazar, Carlos Gardel Arthur Rubinstein and others. Inside, paintings, poems and busts tell the story of the bar. The shows are Tortoni jazz and tango. On the menu there are certain dishes and desserts porteños now only found in this bar, including meringue.

House of Culture

The building was built to host the newspaper "La Prensa". Today it is the headquarters of the "Casa de la Cultura" the government of Buenos Aires. One of the most luxurious buildings of the nineteenth century.

Pacific Galleries

One of the most luxurious buildings in the city, is located on Florida Street, one of the favorite rides for tourists. The building was constructed Au Bon Marché stores in Argentina. Architects Jorge Aslan and Héctor Ezcurra redesigned the building in 1945, he left the office commercial sector, and crowned him with a dome of 450 square meters is covered with murals of some of the most prestigious artists of the time: Spilimbergo Berni, Castagnino, Colmeiro and Urruchúa.

The twelve painted panels are part of one of the most important groups of murals of Buenos Aires. The fresco by Antonio Berni (1905-1981) is one of the most recognized paintings. After being abandoned for many years, the galleries were redesigned and reopened in 1990 as a mall. He added four of Romulo Macció murals, Josefina Robirosa, Guillermo Roux and Carlos Alonso. The Centro Cultural Borges and the Study of Julio Bocca Dances are based in this building.

Manzana de las Luces / Iglesia San Ignacio

This apple has some of the oldest buildings in Buenos Aires, such as the most historic church of San Ignacio town. His plot is seen in the foreground of Buenos Aires, 1580. St. Ignatius School was opened in 1662 and soon became a meeting place for intellectuals in Buenos Aires. In 1863 the National Government took over the school was still in the "Apple", and named it "Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires". Today is one of the two most prestigious schools of high school, along with "Carlos Pellegrini School."

St. Ignatius School (Bolivar and Alsina) began to be built in 1686 on the adobe walls that existed on the site. It was built by Jesuit architects Krauss, Bianchi and Primolo and opened in 1722. By the late eighteenth century the church served as the cathedral of the city and was converted as a military barracks during the resistance of the British Invasion of 1806.

The Boca / San TelmoCaminito - La Boca

Caminito street is one of the favorite walks of tourists and locals. It is surrounded by typical houses of La Boca, with metal walls painted different colors, and the street is adorned with paintings and sculptures. Your tour winds because it follows the course of a stream flowing around until the early twentieth century. The area was traditionally known as "Puntin" (the diminutive of dialect Genoese bridge). In Caminito and its adjacent areas, multiply the street shows and craft fairs during weekends from 10 AM to 7 PM.

Boca Juniors Stadium

With a horseshoe-shaped structure and three tiers at a steep angle, the stadium can accommodate up to 50000 spectators. Because of its shape, is called "La Bombonera". Because the field is just a few feet from the stands, the atmosphere that exists during games is unmatched.

Lezama Park

It is located in one of the few ravines of the city at the southern end of San Telmo neighborhood. It is one of the largest parks in the city and is believed to be located where it occurred the first foundation of Buenos Aires in 1536. The park has many sculptures (including a Roman wolf), monuments (the "Monument to the International Kindness" on Avenida Martín García), an amphitheater, a gazebo and fountain.

On Defensa street is the Museum of National History, which is located in the mansion where the family lived in Lezama nineteenth century. The Orthodox Church, Moscow style and blue domes, is situated opposite the park. At the corner of Brasil and Defensa there are two of the most famous cafés in Buenos Aires, "The British" and "Hippo".

Retirement / Puerto Madero

Hispanic Art Museum Fernandez Blanco

The building which houses the Museum's neocolonial style that combines elements of Spanish and American colonies. The assets of the Fernández Blanco is considered one of the largest Hispanic art, mostly Peruvian silversmithing and River Plate, Peruvian and Cuzco paintings, images Jesuits and Quito, Brazilian furniture and decorative arts. One of the smaller collections is the ornamental combs of tortoiseshell or horn that women in the Rio de la Plata often used during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Puente de la Mujer

The bridge has a length of 160 meters, a length of 6 meters wide with a mast that rises 39 meters and weighing 800 tons. The bridge is ready to turn over one of its edges every time a boat must pass. The pivoting mechanism is one of the largest in the world, with 20 electric motors on the main shaft, which are controlled by a central computer. The artistic profile of the work seeks to represent the figures of a couple dancing tango, where the white mast represents the man and the curved silhouette of the bridge represents the woman.

Ecological Reserve

It is the largest green area of ​​Buenos Aires, about 350 hectares. The reserve hosts hundreds of species of flora and fauna of Chaco-Pampean plain and the banks of the Rio de la Plata. During the 1970 and 1980 was used by the riverside landfill south. The land reclaimed from the river were colonized by the flora and fauna to be declared a nature reserve in 1986. There are also grasslands and alder forests typical of the region, several species of birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles. The roads of the reserve, which reach the river you can walk or bike, or on a guided tour.

South Coast

One of the most popular routes from Buenos Aires a century ago. People go to the Costanera to ride a bike, running or spending the day with family. In 1918, municipal resort opened on the waterfront and its beaches became the most popular of the Rio de la Plata.

During the 1940 and 1950 opened many restaurants and theaters in which the tango musicians and comedians such as Anibal Troilo and Joseph "Pepitito" Marrone acting at night. During the 1960 ride lost its importance, largely due to pollution of the river, which swim in its waters was banned. During the decades of 1990 and 2000, the waterfront and boulevards were remodeled. Lots of people visit the coast during the day and night, especially during the weekends. On the sidewalks you will find many carts that specialize in sandwiches bondiola.

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