Mandatory Cultural Activities INITIAL CYCLE / LEVELS 1 & 2
LA BOCA
LA BOCA ART MUSEUM - La Boca
Located next to the Riachuelo, most of its original population consisted of Italian immigrants who worked at the docks. This neighborhood is home to one of the major football clubs in the country: Boca Juniors. Its picturesque landscape is enhanced by a patchwork of hundreds of humble houses painted in vibrant colors.
Visitors will walk along the traditional Caminito, a pedestrian street that serves as open-air museum, with a crafts and art fair.
The tour finishes at La Boca Art Museum and its collection of paintings by Argentine artists among which excel the works of Quinquela Martin, one of the country’s most important painters and a resident of La Boca, who depicted the daily life of the dock workers of the Riachuelo.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF DECORATIVE AND EASTERN ART – Palermo Chico
This is one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in the city, home to many intellectuals and celebrities.Houses are largely small palaces and mansions, some of which have become embassies or museums. Visitors tour the neighborhood and then head towards the Museum of Decorative Art.
The building is eighteenth-century French style and was the palace of the Errazuriz -Alvear family, until 1937, when it was acquired by the National Government to build the museum.
The main value of its collection lies in the paintings and pieces of XVI to XIX European and Oriental art, many of which belonged to the owners of the house. There is a collection of European miniatures that date from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, the most important of its kind in America.
Puerto Madero emerged in the late nineteenth century as an alternative to the old port, no longer suitable for the large number of ships arriving in Buenos as a consequence of the thriving Argentine export economy. In the first decades of the twentieth century, however,
Puerto Madero was in its turn replaced by Puerto Nuevo (NewPort), which is still today the port terminal of the city of Buenos Aires.
For decades after the 1920s Puerto Madero remained inactive and abandoned, but in 1989 the whole area underwent a process of remodelling to become the newest and most fancy neighborhood in Buenos Aires.
Puerto Madero limits to the East with two large green areas of the City of Buenos Aires, Costanera Sur and the Ecological Reserve, which together constitute an area of great importance in the city.
Mandatory Cultural Activities
INTERMEDIATE CYCLE / LEVELS
3 & 4
RECOLETA
RECOLETA
This elegant neighborhood developed around the most famous cemetery in the city, the rest-place of many of our country`s historic figures, such as Eva Peron.
Plaza Francia (France Square), with its huge rubber trees, true natural monuments, is a major focus of social gatherings.
On weekends crowds of people like to walk, enjoy the shows, and buy handicrafts in the square’s fair. Facing Plaza Francia is the Recoleta Cultural Center, host of art exhibitions and cultural events.
There are many good restaurants and cafes in this area. During the visit, we will stop to admire the district’s most important buildings.
MALBA- Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires
Located in the neighborhood of Palermo, the MALBA is a private museum belonging to the local artist and patron of the arts, Edward F.
Designed to bring together modern and contemporary works of Latin American art, its collection is one of the most important in the continent, with works byartists such as Antonio Berni, Frida Kahlo, Xul Solar, Diego Rivera, and others.
MALBA is a fairly new museum, opened in September 2001, and its architecture has a very careful and functional design. Our visit will target the permanent collection of Argentine and Latin American art. Students will also find information on the activities of the MALBA, from film exhibitions to various art seminars.
The area around Plaza San Martín (San Martin Square), was in the late nineteenth century the quarter in which rich families lived in their impressive French-style palaces, and at the same time swarmed with huge crowds of working class people and newly arrived immigrants because of its closeness to the main train stations and the Immigrants Hotel .
Retiro station, the most valuable architectural work of its kind, and one of the largest in the world in its time, symbolizes the idea of progress that prevailed at the turn-of-the-century Buenos Aires.
During the years of mass immigration in our country, the law required that newcomers received shelter for five days in a place called the Immigrants Hotel. We will visit the building, turned into a museum recently.
Until the late nineteenth century Barracas (Barracks) was one of the districts chosen by the richest families in Argentina, who lived in luxurious houses and villas. But the epidemic of yellow fever forced them to flee the place (as happened with the residents of San Telmo), and the neighborhood was totally transformed.
Immigrants arriving from around the world (especially Italian) settled there, and thus becoming a working class neighborhood.
It soon acquired a bad reputation due to the many taverns and low class night clubs which sprung up rapidly, and as a safe haven for thugs and thiefs; but it also was the cradle to our national music, tango Barracas was, until the mid-twentieth century, a thriving neighborhood, but then recession hit the country and factories and barracks began to close.
Much less known than its more famous neighbors San Telmo and La Boca, it just recently caught the attention of both locals and tourists.
According to Jorge Luis Borges, Xul Solar was a "well versed in all disciplines, curious of all mysteries, the father of writings, of languages, of utopias, of mythologies, host of hells and heavens, author and astrologer (…) one of the most unique events of our time.
His paintings are documents of an unearthly world, the metaphysical world where the gods take the form of the imagination behind their creation".
This activity consist of a visit to the museum featuring the work of this artist and afterwards a visit to the National Library.
This activity starts at Chacarita Cemetery, site of the tomb of Carlos Gardel, and then continues with an evocative journey of the memory of this great tango singer touring picturesque places such as the Old Abasto Market, the Carlos Gardel Passage, the Tango Walk, and the House of Carlos Gardel.
The idea is to explore the context in which tango was born, for tango is not just a musical expression, it is a cultural event.
There are many theories about the exact location of the first foundation of Buenos Aires, and many historians place it where today is Lezama Park.t.
The area suffered major changes over the centuries, to become one of the most beautiful parks in the city. Inside is the National Historical Museum, which contains a collection of paintings, objects and furniture for different periods of our colonial history and the wars of independence.
Near the park, under the highway, is the archaeological excavations of the site known as "Club Atlético" clandestine detention center that served as a concentration comap during the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976-1983. Within the neighborhood there is a street where houses were painted by a resident artist.
Eva Duarte de Peron, Evita, is one of the most important and controversial women in our history. We visit this museum to learn about her life her childhood, her youth as an actress, her life as first lady with Juan Domingo Peron, her struggle women’s rights, the social work she carried on, and her resignation and death.
The museum has a collection of personal items such as dresses, evening dresses, shoes, hats, pictures and films.
Inside the museum is the Eva Perón National Institute of Historical Research, with its own library and archives.
Victoria Ocampo was a major cultural personality in Argentina and South America. The magazine she founded and directed is one of the most significant cultural publications in twentieth century Latin America.
Known for its architectural style, furniture and library, Villa Ocampo, her house, hosted many important international cultural events, and was home to the best minds in the country and around the world who came to Argentina, invited by Victoria: GrahamWaldo Frank, Albert Camus, Le Corbusier, Octavio Paz, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Igor Stravinsky and Jorge Luis Borges, among others.
The house is located in San Isidro, a traditional neighborhood in the Northern suburbs of Buenos Aires. The visit includes a tour of the main square of San Isidro, and a return trip on the Tren de la Costa (Coastal Train).
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