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Article: Travel: Hotter Than The Tango.(Buenos Aires)
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- February 14, 2005
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Byline: Arian Campo-Flores
Tony Taylor can't seem to get enough of Buenos Aires. He just returned from a trip there in January and already has another--his fifth since 2001--planned for March. The artist and songwriter enthusiastically rattles off his favorite haunts, like the sumptuous bar Mi-lion (located at Parana 1048), which Taylor likens to "going into Versailles." Not a bad analogy. Buenos Aires is often called the Paris of South America--a city of grand boulevards, vibrant culture and seductive style that, for Taylor, is "passionately intoxicating."
Best of all, these days it's cheap. After an economic collapse in 2001, the Argentine peso ...