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Dance: Argentine Julio Bocca is famous in the world of ballet but the general standard in the city is not that high. Top venues include the Teatro Colón (see Music above) and Teatro Coliseo, Calle Marcelo T de Alvear 1155 (call Ticketek for bookings). Tango is by far the dominant dance form and tango shows can be viewed in countless bars, cultural centres and even in the city streets. Salsa is also popular.
Film: Porteños are avid cinema-goers and Argentina has a strong film industry. Famous Argentine directors include Maria Luisa Bemberg, Alejandro Agresti, Fernando Solanas and Eliseo Subiela. Hollywood films are screened, as are arthouse films, while free films are often shown at cultural centres and museums. Big-screen pictures are shown in the original language with Spanish subtitles. The mainstream cinemas tend to be centred around Lavalle but multiplexes have sprung up around the city. The Galerias Pacifico, Calle Florida 753 (tel: (011) 5555 5357; website: www.galeriaspacifico.com.ar) and Village Recoleta, Vincente López and Calle Junín (tel: (011) 4800 0000; website: www.villagecines.com) are multi-screen cinemas showing popular films, while Cosmos, Avenida Corrientes 2046 (tel: (011) 4953 5405), is a good place to view an arthouse selection. Cinema listings can be found on the Pantalla website (www.pantalla.com.ar/cine).
Buenos Aires has been the setting for a number of films, most notably Alan Parker's Evita (1996), starring Madonna as Eva Perón. Also, the critically acclaimed and Oscar nominated Nueve Reinas (Nine Queens) (2000), directed by Fabián Belinsky, tells the story of a group of small-time swindlers in Buenos Aires. More recently, The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), directed by Walter Salles, tracks Che Guevara's journey across South America starting in his home town of Buenos Aires.
Literary Notes: Buenos Aires has inspired many writers, playwrights and poets, none more so than Jorge Luis Borges, known throughout the world for his poetry and short stories. His first book, following his return from Europe, Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923), is a collection of poems about the city, with references to La Recoleta Cemetery. His most famous short story, 'El Aleph', was based in the Constitucion area.
Ernesto Sabato wrote about the city's people and places in his psychological novel On Heroes and Tombs (1961). Buenos Aires resident, Julio Cortazar focused on Argentinean characters in novels such as 62 (1968) and Hopscotch (1963), while novels by Manuel Puig, Betrayed by Rita Hayworth (1968) and Kiss of the Spiderwoman (1976), centre on the role of popular culture in Argentina. Tomas Eloy Martinez, in his books The Perón Novel (1985) and Santa Evita (1995), mixes fact about the lives of the Peróns with fiction.
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Starting at the Cathedral and Archbishop's Palace and the 17th. century Church of San Francisco with its 19th. century tower, forming a group of outstanding beauty, from there the range of tourist sights spreads out in all directions of Salta - Argentina.
Iguazu Falls - Cataratas del Iguazu - consists of some 275 separate waterfalls - in the rainy season there are as many as 350 - that send their white cascades plunging more than 200 feet onto the rocks below.
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