🇦🇷 Argentina
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires (the "Paris of the South" — a claim that is not entirely hyperbole: the Avenida de Mayo (1894, modelled on the Haussmanian boulevard), the café culture, the bookshops, the psychoanalysis culture (Buenos Aires has more psychoanalysts per capita than any other city in the world), and the literary tradition (Borges, Cortázar, Sábato) all reflect a city that has always looked across the Atlantic for its identity) is the cultural capital of Latin America: a city of 3 million in the city proper (15 million in the metro area) where tango was born in the brothels and conventillos of La Boca in the 1880s, where the most passionate football culture in the world (Boca Juniors vs. River Plate — the Superclásico — is the most intense football rivalry on the planet), and where the finest steak on earth (Argentine beef, grass-fed on the Pampas) is eaten at a parrilla at midnight. Buenos Aires is simultaneously European in its architecture and Latin American in its heat — and the combination is irresistible.