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Buenos Aires Through the Ages: 1700–1950
Buenos Aires · 1700–1950 · exact time + place
From colonial beginnings and independence to Belle Époque grandeur, the birth of tango, and the city's role as Argentina's vibrant cultural heart — plazas, boulevards, and neighborhoods where music, dance, and literature flourish. The button below opens StoryTerra with both Buenos Aires and 1700–1950 already set.
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Browse 11 books and 6 movies set in Buenos Aires.
You Were Never Lovelier
An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.
Ficciones
The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy.…
The Aleph and Other Stories
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight, he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an…
Camila
In Buenos Aires of the 1840s a young Jesuit and a wealthy socialite fall in love and begin a torrid affair. They escape from the city and in disguise set up house in a village assuming they are safe and beyond the cares…
El túnel
Breve e intensa novela publicada en 1948, este logrado fruto de la denominada "literatura existencial" le dio a su autor un reconocimiento que traspasó las fronteras nacionales. Para quien todavía no la leyó, El túnel…
The Mudboy
Police try to hunt down a serial killer in 1912 Buenos Aires.
Me llaman Artemio Furia
Artemio Furia no es un hombre común.Es un gaucho cuyo nombre se pronuncia con respeto y temor en todas las esferas de la sociedad. Entre 1806 y 1807, sus centauros y él sirvieron en los ejércitos de Juan Martín de…
Revolution: Crossing the Andes
Buenos Aires 1880. A journalist interviews Manuel Esteban Corvalán one of the last living men who crossed the Andes in 1817 with José de San Martín during the Argentinian and Chilean wars of independence as one of his…
Resurrection
A young priest travels to Buenos Aires in order to help sick people during the 1871 yellow fever epidemic.
The Escape
In the summer of 1928 several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - tough men with their own ethical…
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