Imagining Argentina*

As those of you that usually follow my blog probably already know, I am currently spending my holidays in my country, in Argentina.

It is my intention to show you the places I visit during my stay and also other places that I have been to in previous years. But before I start doing that, I thought it might be a good idea to run a sort of survey to see how much you already know about Argentina. I am sure you have at least once in your life before heard about my country? You don't need to start googling now or looking desperately for your World Atlas - we are not going back to school, people!

Let us see how much you've heard or know about my part of the world, shall we?

• First of all - have you ever been there? I know that some of you have! You are disqualified!! (just joking)

• Do you know where it is located? If I were to show you a map of the world, would you know where to point?

• Do you know what is the official language spoken there?

• Have you heard the names of any cities in Argentina? Do you, by any chance, know the name of the capital city?

• Do you know any particular food or dish that is typically Argentinean? (you can cheat by scrolling down my older posts....)

• Have you heard of any geographic landmarks or any popular tourist region in the country, like mountains, lakes, forests, waterfalls, etc.?

• Have you heard of any typical Argentinean music or Argentinean musician, band, composer?

• Have you heard of any political or historical figure,writer, scientist, footballer(!) or celebrity that you know was born in Argentina? (that excluding myself, of course! hehe)

• Do you remember hearing about Argentina on the news in your country? And do you remember what it was you heard?

And finally,

• Is there anything in particular you would like to know about the country or the place where I come from?

Remember, this is not school so you don't need to answer all the questions! And now a little help from your friend Aledys:

Do you know any of these Argentinean figures?

This is a famous "house" in Buenos Aires, does it look familiar at all to you?
Don't Cry, for me, if it doesn't!

These are photos of the province/city where I come from.
Do you the name of that province/city?



Have you ever seen photos or heard about any of these places?

Buenos Aires, Puerto Madero ©Maximiliano Buono


Iguazú National Park, Misiones


El Calafate National Park, Santa Cruz ©Ramón Tello



Have you ever heard of or experienced any of these things?

My father is drinking the national drink: mate

home-made dulce de leche


Tango, Buenos Aires ©Ramón Tello

Improvised asado (barbecue), Argentinean style.

empanadas, a typical filled pastry dish.

I hope you enjoyed this thread about Argentina. In future posts I will be showing you more places and things about the country, its people and its habits.


Ackowledgments:

I would like to thank Maximiliano Buono (from Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Ramón Tello (from Cariñena, Spain) for allowing me to show their pictures in this blog. Thanks guys, for your generosity.

*Imagining Argentina is the name of a film featuring Antonio Banderas and Emma Thompson and it deals with the desaparitions of people during the military government in Argentina during the ditatorship between 1976 and 1983.