{"id":1450,"date":"2018-03-23T09:23:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T12:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davinciresidence.com.ar\/?p=1450\/"},"modified":"2018-03-23T09:23:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T12:23:36","slug":"5-ways-to-travel-back-in-time-in-buenos-aires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davinciresidence.com.ar\/en\/5-ways-to-travel-back-in-time-in-buenos-aires\/","title":{"rendered":"5 ways to travel back in time in Buenos Aires"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The idea of travelling in time has fascinated generations, and more than a few of us would like to be able to experience for a moment the life and customs of other eras. Well, in Buenos Aires it\u2019s possible \u2013 no time machine required. All you need to do is visit these places:<\/p>\n

1. Hop aboard the historic tramway<\/h2>\n

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One of the great advances in the city in the mid 19th<\/sup>\u00a0century was the arrival of the tramway in 1863. With almost 830km of track, Buenos Aires came to have the most extensive tram network in the world. \u201cThere\u2019s not one street that doesn\u2019t have its own line. It gives the impression that the Porte\u00f1os use the tram even to go to the bathroom,\u201d commented the then prime minister of France Georges Clemenceau when he visited the city. In the golden age of the tramway, from 1930 until its closure in 1963, the system used 3,000 carriages.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the Friends of the Tramway Association founded in 1976, some of these emblematic vehicles continue to travel the streets of Buenos Aires allowing visitors to travel back in time and experience what it was like to make a journey on the old system. You can board the travelling museum at the junction of the streets Emilio Mitre and Jos\u00e9 Bonifacio, in the Caballito neighbourhood, every weekend.<\/p>\n

2. Delve into the Zanj\u00f3n de Granados<\/h2>\n

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Want to discover four centuries of history beneath the city? This is the opportunity offered at El Zanj\u00f3n de Granados, located at Defensa 755 in San Telmo. Behind the 19th<\/sup>\u00a0century facade, this house is the entrance into a series of tunnels and underground labyrinths where many historic artefacts have been found.<\/p>\n

The tunnels were only discovered in 1985 when a new owner bought the property with plans to turn it into a restaurant. He didn\u2019t imagine he\u2019d uncover an archaeological site revealing the historic foundations of the city and the old sewerage system \u2013 a long-culveted river that flows into the R\u00edo de la Plata. Curiously the name the owner had in mind for his restaurant was El Rinc\u00f3n de las Viejas Historias (The Corner of Old Stories), and that\u2019s exactly what the site has become.<\/p>\n

3. Sip a coffee in a historic cafe<\/h2>\n

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Spread throughout the city, the more than 70 so-called\u00a0bares notables<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 cafes and bars recognised by the city authorities for their historic, architectural or cultural importance \u2013 offer a chance to visit bygone eras over a cup of coffee. Cafe culture debuted here way back in colonial times, and by 1820 the city already had 17 cafes. Many general stores mutated into musical cafes over the years (known as academies), and others became important literary or student meeting places.<\/p>\n

Enjoy the experience of ordering a coffee and taking in the atmosphere at establishments where the decor has barely changed over the decades and time appears to have come to a standstill.<\/p>\n

4. Make a sketch on the Comic Strip sculpture trail<\/h2>\n

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What better than travelling in time with the imagination? Some of Argentina\u2019s best loved comic characters from decades past populate the neighbourhood of San Telmo and surrounding areas on the Comic Strip Walk, an open-air sculpture trail.<\/p>\n

The most famous character is Mafalda at the corner of Chile and Defensa, but there are many more colourful personalities to track down, many located in areas befitting their personalities, such as the playboy Isidoro Ca\u00f1ones surrounded by popular bars. Many of these characters provided commentary on the local history, politics and culture, becoming representatives of the Argentine reality of their times.<\/p>\n

5. Tour the Casa Rosada museum<\/h2>\n

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The site of this museum dates all the way back to the second founding of Buenos Aires in 1580. At that time the R\u00edo de la Plata reached right up to the avenue now behind the Casa Rosada, so, in 1594, a fort was built on the site to defend the city from invasions. The fort was rebuilt in 1594 and converted into a customs house named Aduana Taylor, the first major public building in Argentina.<\/p>\n

The Casa Rosada museum includes remains of the brick walls of the original constructions. A visit allows you to understand, through hundreds of historic and artistic artefacts, how this space, and the country as a whole, transformed from the pre-Hispanic period up to the present day<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trains, tunnels, ruins and colourful characters \u2013 all you need to visit past epochs in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,26,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-novedades-en","category-novedades-es-en","category-sin-categoria-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davinciresidence.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davinciresidence.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davinciresidence.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davinciresidence.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davinciresidence.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/davinciresidence.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451,"href":"http:\/\/davinciresidence.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davinciresidence.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davinciresidence.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davinciresidence.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}