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Argentina, the American dream
Carlos Gardel, the most famous singer of the Tango in history, was actually named Charles Gardes. He was born in 1890, in Toulouse. As for Astor Pizzola, the other lover of body-to-body dances, he was Italian. Two Argentinean heroes, two immigrants. Since its origins, Argentina has never stopped being a welcoming country. And its multicultural population, made up of Indians, Spaniards, Libyans and Syrians, and all those that Europe counted as farmers without land, makes this immense country a cosmopolitan cradle. It is no coincidence, then, if Argentina is considered to be a piece of the Old Continent in exile. Buenos Aires is, of course, a cultural capital for all of America. To love this country, you must have visited its cabaret clubs, where petticoats fly, but also its theatres and its modern opera houses. And those places where eager youths invent the electronic rhythms of tomorrow.
Inevitably urban, Argentinean life also unfolds in the provinces. In the north lies the fertile Pampa verdoie. On the very long border with Chile (more than 5000 km), the Cordillera of the Andes spreads its colossal peaks, among them the 7000 m high Mount Aconcagua. And then in the South, the third zone of the country with countless attractions, Patagonia stretches as far as the Land of Fire. A burning Cape feared by explorers of old, and serving today as a second residence for people all over the planet who love infinite open spaces. The waters of the Plata, the widest river in the world, carry the memories of this region known as the Little Switzerland, whose glaciers and snowy mountains remind us of the original model. As for the cataracts of Iguayu, claimed by both Brazil and Argentina as their own, they rival Niagara Falls. A continent in itself, Argentina has both desert and Antarctic climates, depending on where you find yourself. From a gastronomic point of view, Argentina is no paradise for the vegetarian, who will all the same find it hard to resist the locally raised beef that inevitably fills the plates. On the other hand, everyone appreciates the joys of the vineyards that make up part of the pleasures of the country. A beverage which two protagonists of the country’s history, its best ambassadors, the writer Jorge Luis Borges and the footballer Diego Armando Maradona, never stopped tasting. The pen and the football, Argentina breathes this diversity.