Welcome to Buenos Aires

Ruben Beriro of the InterContinental Buenos Aires shows you around this beautiful city - the capital and largest city of Argentina.

Ruben Beriro: Welcome to Intercontinental Buenos Aires. My name is Ruben Beriro. I am the Chef Concierge in hotel and I want to show you the different highlights of this green and beautiful city. Let us start with our little tour. If we have just walked three blocks from our hotel you will bang into Avenida De Mayo and it has a historical meaning for us. One side you can praise The Congress and the other side the most important and popular square Plaza De Mayo. It face the Government House the cathedral and Cabildo, they are Spanish city colony which were specifically where all the history have taken place. Walking across Plaza De Mayo, it is worth looking up. You will find beautiful tombs with architectural styles. It has the most important and old fashioned bars like Tortoni. Also we have a National Academy of Tango. Buenos Aires is full of restaurants. We are in Recoleta, we are walking over this very upper case neighborhood and this is LA Cabana located. In this beautiful pretty hotel you can find the best meat, grilled up to perfection. Try the great baby beef wholly decorated in the way of heroines. You get the got to take most fear straight away and there is a special collection of Molina Campos one of the most important painters who reflect the actual life. Now we are in Palermo and in this beautiful area that just become the friendly for Buenos Aires my choice is wha do we have here. We have different possibilities in same place. We have this beautiful bar; we have the art gallery on the first floor this is also a chill out area and of course the main restaurant where you can try the best Mediterranean food. This is my favorite drink, Melissa; ginger, mint, lemon juice and vodka. After this paradise, here you can try pizza made in mud furnace. This is my best the soda sea food. You have to try it, don't miss it. If you want to go shopping this is the best street that you can find, Florida Street. One of the most important things of Florida Street is these pedestrians. And here you won't be bothered for any traffic or any car, you can find it here one of the best leather shops that you have in this, we believe, where you can find all kind of exclusive designs. This is Patio Bullrich where unique shopping experience under a beautiful dome Patio Bullrich is placed, it was an auction house and then they closed and reopened once again 1988. You can find the most important trends even if it rains, which is not very usually in Buenos Aires. You can come and do some shopping. Now we are in San Telmo neighborhood it is hear of Buenos Aires city a very nice and beautiful open market. If you are a collector, in this open air market you can find a lot of antiques and many of these things came with the first immigrant of the beginning of the 20th century. We have visited many places of Buenos Aires is the outside. Now we are going to introduce you in the underground the deep side of Buenos Aires El Zanjon de Granados. Jorge: This was the last square in the foundation of 1580 and the first foundation of the city of 1536, everything here is original, means it is not a replica. Ruben Beriro: If we are talking about the spirit of Buenos Aires and the Portanius we have to think in the soul of the time period. We are invited by to school and one of the best dancers in town. They are going to teach us first steps in the spirit of Buenos Aires. Let us go to the master class.