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  • Plaza de Mayo

    Argentina's politic center. Revolutions, festivities and riots were always held here, changing our country's history through the years. Here you will be able to see places like Casa Rosada or the Cabildo. If you're a history lover, you should not forget to visit Plaza de Mayo.

  • Obelisco



    The most well-known monument of Argentina, with 67 m. tall, is located in the middle of 9 de Julio Avenue (world's widest avenue) and it commemorates four historical episodes of our country. 

  • Teatro Colón



    With its Renaissance style, it's the biggest lyric theater in all Latin America. If you like opera, ballet and classic music, this is a must in your list. Dancers like Julio Bocca, Maximiliano Guerra and Paloma Herrera came out from Teatro Colon's Ballet School. In 2008 is celebrating its 100th anniversary. 

  • Puerto Madero



    It was originally a deposit, but lately it has been converted in one of the most expensive places to live in the whole city. Full of excellent restaurants, with a lovely view to the River Plate, and with the most modern buildings you can find in Argentina. Especially nice at night, and very near to the Casino, it's a great option to take some photos or have the most delicious dinner. (Expensive) 

  • Palermo Hollywood and Palermo Soho



    Art lovers, food lovers, night lovers, come here. This zones of Buenos Aires offer lots of pubs and restaurants, mixed with designer's clothing shops, art galleries, some little theaters. Very nice and cool places to walk by, and very near between them. 

  • Shopping Malls



    If you come to Argentina with US Dollars, Pounds or Euros, you'll love to shop at Buenos Aires' malls. Some of the best ones are: “Unicenter” (the biggest one), “Paseo Alcorta”, “Alto Palermo” and “Galerías Pacífico”. Here you will find excellent clothing and sport brands with their latest collections, technology, perfumes, etc. and everything at lower prices because of your stronger currency. Don't let this opportunity pass. 

  • Boca Jrs. and River Plate Stadiums



    If you come to Buenos Aires, whether you're a sport lover or not, you cannot miss the chance of watching an Argentinean football match. And Boca's or River's stadiums are the most important teams in the city, but if you prefer you can go to another field, there are plenty of teams in the city and nearby. But don't leave Argentina without living the passion of a football game. 

  • Malba Art Museum



    A very young and modern building where Latin American art is collected, studied, and conserved to be able to show it to the world. Also the museum has temporally theme collections, as well as literature and movies, all of them from Latin American authors. 

  • Caminito



    In the neighborhood of La Boca, there is one special place where every tourist wants to go at least once, that's Caminito. 150 m. of pure Tango (Argentinean typical music), colored buildings, craftsmen selling their works, and lots of art and paintings. There are also some restaurants if you want to eat Argentinean food. 

  • Recoleta



    One of the nicest neighborhoods in the city, full of bars, restaurants, parks, and more expensive shops. The architecture here is beautiful, for example you can see it in the Recoleta Cemetery, where the famous Evita is buried, or in the Patio Bullrich shopping mall, which is also more expensive than the others since it has the highest quality brands. It also offers the Centro Cultural Recoleta, which translation would be a cultural center.

    • ]]>     Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:48:05 PST     The Taj Mahal: One Man's Monument to Love http://www.trifter.com/Asia-&-Pacific/India/The-Taj-Mahal-One-Mans-Monument-to-Love.88972 Humanity has built monuments to pay tribute to many things. We have celebrated life and death, great men, great women and events across the ages. We erect shrines to testify to the emotions of an event or the nobility of a cause when the dust of centuries gathers thick and collective memory has grown thin.

    "A Tear on the Face of Eternity"

    Across all our many monuments and tributes it is strange that so few are dedicated to so fundamental a human trait as love. Perhaps we suffer to capture the delicacy of the emotion in concrete and stone? The ethereal beauty of the Taj Mahal provides a source of redemption, for the grief of a lone man inspired the world's greatest monument to love.

    Shah Jehan and Mumtaz Mahal

    Nearly 400 years ago, Emperor Shah Jehan, a mogul lord in India met and married Arjuman Banu Begam. In a time of marriages for political reasons and convenience this was a marriage of love and the short and bittersweet story of their lives bears testament to this truth.

    A bride at 19 years old, Arjuman Begam soon became inseparable from her husband. She followed him wherever he went and soon became known as Mumtaz Mahal which means "Chosen of the Palace". Together the Emperor and his chosen wife traveled the empire and even when he went to war she was never far from his side. Theirs was not a marriage destined for time though and while on campaign with her husband in 1629 she died in childbirth. So stricken was the Emperor that he, along with his entire court, went into mourning for two years. It is rumored that for a year the Emperor secluded himself away from the world and would not communicate with anyone. When he emerged his hair had turned white and his back had bent to the shape of an old man.

    Labor of Love

    While the dead queen was laid to rest in a nearby garden the empire labored for 20 years to build a fitting tomb for their beloved of the palace. The building was of a scale that was unknown in those times with a labor force of over 20,000 men and the finest artisans from all over the world. Built with marble and inlaid with precious stones the mausoleum was built on the banks of the Yamuna River within clear sight of the Emperors fort in Agra. When Shah Jehan eventually died he was laid to rest next to his beloved Mumtaz Mahal in the center of his greatest creation.

    There are more beautiful buildings in the world, there are more majestic monuments to humanities achievements, we have achieved greater feats of engineering but can there be a more timeless reminder of the power of love?

     

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