Today’s posting is a picture I took in the line E of the BA’s subway. That line runs from Plaza de Mayo, in the Microcentro, to the District of Flores. It opened to the public on June 20th,1944 and extends to about 9.2 km. The Bolivar station is located at the intersection of the streets Bolivar and Hipólito Yrigoyen. It runs through a total of 15 stations, and transports more than 104,000 passengers on week days. It was the fifth line of the network in offering service to the public.

Type of architecture you can find in the district of San Telmo, known for its antique shops, like this one in the picture. Located in the street Defensa. In San Telmo you’ll most likely find everything from scounces, chandeliers, lamps, plafonniers, sculptures, furniture to objects of art, and restoration. Not really my kind of shopping, but it is definitely worth walking by the typical streets of San Telmo.

This Puma store is located in the district Las Canitas, same neighborhood where I took this picture. Happy Valentine’s day to all.

You must know it by know today is the one year celebration of Hong Kong, one photo a day. Today’s photo is a shot taken from an Argentinian national newspaper, in which they recently talked about Hong Kong as being the “El Dorado” for jobs. Occidental Chinese tend to move to Hong Kong because of its job opportunity. I don’t know if this is true, but you Lisi can tell us I only hope that picture were mine, maybe one day I can take such shot, when I visit Hong Kong. I told you Lisi, Hong Kong is listed in my “next cities to visit in the world”. Until then Happy Anniversary to HKDP.

Standing in the foreground of this picture, called Palacio de Tribunales as well. Located in front of Lavalle Square. Another picture and more info here.

Persicco is another one of those ice cream chains Buenos Aires is popular for. You can imagine its popularity by the number of people sitting outside. Of course that day was a very warm day, but even in winter Persicco gets crowded. The story of Persicco started in Sorrento in 1931, continues in La Plata in 1960, and finally got a star in Buenos Aires in 2001. Las Canitas, where I took this picture, is a neighborhood delimited by the avenues Liberator, Luis Maria Fields Luis María Campos, Federico Lacroze and the Chenaut and is about 20 minutes away from the center.

A quiet street in the district Belgrano, not so far from home. On week-ends, it is pleasant to walk by Belgrano and its quiet streets, which are also very green. The restaurant in the picture is called “Piacere”, a franchise store known for good coffee, sandwiches, and quality pastries. And on top of the restaurant, there’s a plastic surgery office. South America is becoming the new place for plastic surgeries, of course Brazil still is the #1 country for that, but because Argentina’s cost of living is more affordable for the tourists, people more and more are coming down here. Not so long ago, did I hear about a woman living in the U.K. and traveling all the way to Buenos Aires for a plastic intervention. As a Frommer’s reports says: Cosmetic and dental surgery in the United States is so expensive that it’s simply out of reach to most people, whereas in a number of other countries, predominantly in South America and Asia, costs are considerably lower.

This is typical from what’s happening in front of the University of Economic Sciences. Street vendors sellings all sort of craft objects. To view the University, click here. The University is located on Cordoba Avenue.

Sunday late afternoon walking by Plaza Italia, at the intersection of Av. Santa Fe and Jorge L. Borges. This part of the city is a strategically important point where converge the subway, and an intense traffic of vehicles; and where an amount of businesses and a great affluence of people are concentrated visiting and/or working around here. Here you can fing a big expo center La Rural, the Zoo and the Botanical Garden.

The lush park Barrancas de Belgrano was designed by the famous French-Argentine landscape/park architect Carlos Thays, who designed many open spaces throughout Buenos Aires. Several blocks north of the Universidad de Belgrano, Barrancas de Belgrano spans several city blocks and is overlooked by highrise upper-middle class apartment buildings. This promenade is one of the favorite of local families who gather there especially during week-ends.

Walking in the district of Belgrano, you pass by this mall, called El Solar de la Abadia. To see an inside picture of the mall, click here. As you can see, Buenos Aires has some very colorful buses.

On the right you enter the train station of the neighborhood Belgrano, which is located right by the Chinese district. There’s also the Belgrano bus terminal.

I took this shot back in September/October 2006, when the cultural center held the wildly successful onedotzero festival attracting over 20,000 people in 3 days for installations, live performances, screenings and music.

Welcome to my neighborhood. I only live a few blocks from this place. The main avenue in the foreground is Cabildo. Defining the avenue Cabildo in a few words would be something like that: this avenue carries heavy automobile traffic, and features corner cafés, grocery stores, movie theaters, specialty shops, clothing boutiques, bookstores, and other retail venues. Pedestrians are especially numerous on weekend afternoons as Porteños (residents of Buenos Aires) from various areas of the city come to shop. Have a great week end all!

I recently read in the newspaper that the city generates 4,400 tons of trash per day and Sundays, when the Saturdays’ remainders are accumulated, near 5.000. Buenos Aires is a beautiful city, but gosh it is dirty! The problem explaining this accumulation of trashes is that the trucks collecting the trashes do not pick them up because most retailers and neighbors take them out after pick-up hours and because the cartoneros (cardboard collectors) break the bags apart. Of course, there would be a lot more to talk about on this subject, so I prefer to leave it here for now. Happy theme day everyone : D!

Other DP members showing what annoys them in their own city:

1 (Porto (Portugal) ) -2 (Stayton, OR (USA) ) -3 (Albuquerque, NM (USA) ) -4 (Tenerife (Spain) ) -5 (Greenville, SC (USA) ) -6 (Dubai (U.A.E.) ) -7 (Evry (France) ) -8 (Jakarta (Indonesia) ) -9 (London (UK) ) -10 (Sequim, WA (USA) ) -11 (Buenos Aires, (Argentina) ) -12 (Seattle, WA (USA) ) -13 (Minneapolis, MN (USA) ) -14 (Stavanger (Norway) ) -15 (Joplin , MO (USA) ) -16 (Nelson, New Zealand ) -17 (Milano, Italy ) -18 (Singapore (KeropokMan) ) -19 (La Antigua Guatemala (Guatemala) ) -20 (Nottingham UK ) -21 (Singapore by Zannnie (Singapore) ) -22 (Budapest (Hungary) ) -23 (Not Strictly Seattle, ) -24 (Bandung (Indonesia) ) -25 (Vantaa (Finland) ) -26 (Hyde (UK) ) -27 (Madrid by Dsole (Spain) ) -28 (Oulu (Finland) ) -29 (Saarbr?cken (Germany) ) -30 (St. Paul [Carol] ) -31 (Sydney (Australia) ) -32 (Tokyo (Japan) ) -33 (Kyoto (Japan) ) -34 (Trujillo (Peru) ) -35 (Shanghai (China) ) -36 (Rotterdam (NL) ) -37 (Chicago, IL (USA) ) -38 (Nice, (France) ) -39 (Naples, Florida (USA) ) -40 (Hong Kong ) -41 (Santa Clara, CA (USA) ) -42 (Quito, Ecuador (South America) ) -43 (Cottage Grove, MN (USA) ) -44 (Paris, (France) ) -45 (Manila (Philippines) ) -46 (Brussels (Belgium) ) -47 (Auckland (New Zealand) ) -48 (Newcastle upon Tyne(England) ) -49 (Houston, TX (USA) ) -50 (Sydney by Nathalie (Australia) ) -51 (Mumbai (India) ) -52 (Anderson, SC (USA)) -