Polo
Of all the major sports played in Argentina, polo is the one you're likely to be the least familiar with. First played over two thousand years ago in Ancient Persia, the game became popular in the British Raj, and was adopted in Britain in the 1850s, when London's Hurlingham Club was founded. At first known as "hockey on horseback", it was soon called polo, from the Tibetan word for ball. Exported across the Atlantic to the United States in the 1870s, where the rules were changed, it began to be played on Argentina's estancias soon after and the Buenos Aires Hurlingham Club was established in the 1880s. By the 1920s Argentine teams were holding sway in the polo world; Argentina won the gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and have seldom been beaten internationally ever since. The country's criollo thoroughbreds - known as petisos - and champion polistas are exported worldwide; no leading polo team is complete without a troubleshooter from Argentina, proving that it's not just Argentine football players who earn lucrative livings as sporting mercenaries abroad. Ten-goal players (the top ranking) like Bautista Heguy, earn millions of dollars this way. In the country itself it's a game mainly for estanceros and wealthy families from Barrio Norte, but is nonetheless far less snobbish or exclusive than in Britain or the USA; there are some 150 teams and 5000 club members nationwide. One or two polistas are national heroes, worshipped as pin-ups and heart-throbs almost on a par with footballers and pop stars. Don't miss a chance to see an open championship match in the spring at the Campo de Polo , in Palermo, especially the final at the beginning of December. Even if the rules go over your head, the game is exciting and aesthetically pleasing to watch, with the galloping of athletic hooves over impeccably trimmed frescue and a virile ballet of horsemen waving sticks over their heads and whacking the ball the length of a huge green lawn. For more information take a look at www.polo.co.uk . To find out more about matches and schools, should you want to learn to play, contact the Asociacion Argentina de Polo at Hipolito Yrigoyen 636 (tel 011/4331-4646).
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" whatsamanth says "nothing. you can survive on your own. dont go there its a horrible place." what you needkatie says "bring lots of food and water. try to bring non perishable food. and bring warm and cold clothes. you will need it." Buenos Aires City of DesignBob Frassinetti says "In August 2005 Buenos Aires was appointed City of Design by the UNESCO. This is recognition the city of “good airs” shares with other top notch design areas of the world such as Berlin, Montreal.
This appointment evidences recognition towards what Buenos Aires is doing in this particular area, and it cannot be understood if not put in perspective to the recent boom that took place in this area recently. BA features a constant flow of movement in terms of design, from mind-blowing creations to average regular, items the broadness of the design movement in the Argentine capital provides a wide rainbow of options featuring something for every taste.
Buenos Aires has been among the firsts of the American Continent to take upon the challenge of design together with Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and Mendoza in Argentina –as well-. The turning point in contemporary design in South America can be dated at the end of the 1950s and all throughout the 60s. The decade of 1960 was a strong decade for innovation, creation and design in the deepest sense of the words. The Arts in general had a strong input back then, and design was not an exception, from aesthetics to usefulness, Argentina has been taking upon the challenge of designing new and innovative objects ever since. After a couple of decades of ups and downs, ins and outs, always in tune with the general panorama of what was going on in our country, today, Buenos Aires is breeding and furthering some interesting aesthetic and conceptual approaches to objects.
In terms of industrial design today in Argentina, there are at several different disciplines working in an avant-garde creations and innovating in theory and practice in this sense. The range goes from industrial products to vehicles, furniture and lighting, making of Buenos Aires a design spot pretty much hyper-comprehensive in terms of design for the visitors.
An interesting insight on design in Buenos Aires is provided by worldly known Argentine architect and designer Ricardo Blanco in his book entitled Crónicas del diseño industrial en la Argentina – Chronicles of the Industrial Design in Argentina-, where he reconstructs the path of evolution thru means of a particular historical perspective and journey. Not aiming to cover the entire historical process, but more in the sense of providing an organized insight into the world of useful aesthetics, Blanco attest to evidence the intention and cultural bases of the Argentine design path.
Thru means of the current literature and the ever growing production of industrial design objects Buenos Aires takes upon new airs of discovery, as it mutates from the traditional city of beef and tango to a much more interesting and amusing spot of arts, design and aesthetics… And all in all, in the meantime we explore the new inputs of design we can always stop to enjoy the delightful Argentine cuisine and culture, but now in a broader and richer way.
Bob Frassinetti, Buenos Aires, Argentina" GanjaFaith says "look for ganja at all times"
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