Buenos Aires is a cosmopolitan city with very distinct neighbourhoods in it. It displays a huge cultural life, with arts and entertainment ideal for the tourist who seeks to discover its most deeply rooted customs. Buenos Aires is also the city of Gardel, Jorge Luis Borges, Diego Maradona and the great composer and bandoneon player Astor Piazzola.Its inhabitants, called “porteños� because of the influence of the port, which shaped the city, migrated from all over the country or Europe. The buildings dating from the beginning of the last century embody the ambitions of a whole generation who sought to place the country among the first countries in the world then. Its parks, markets, theatres and bookshops, football stadiums, museums and cafés make Buenos Aires a very colourful city. The city comprises neighbourhoods with low houses, gardens and wide sidewalks, old neighbourhoods with conventillos (tenement houses), luxury areas with refined mansions in the Recoleta, wide avenues and six train terminals of great architectural value. The list goes on and is in fact endless. Buenos Aires is difficult to describe and explain due to the scope of the task. Whoever discovers it will not be able to help feeling awed by the enormous possibilities it offers. Standing next to the mythical Obelisco, at the intersection of 9 de Julio and Corrientes avenues, may be the ideal starting point for the great adventure of discovering Buenos Aires.