


Your information will be kept as long as necessary to achieve the purpose for which it is processed. Your information is sent to EVANEOS, located at 27 rue de Mogador, 75009 Paris, France, in order provide you with its services, personalized information relevant to you, and practical advice regarding your travel plans. For example, by the Catholic church in 1929 and by the army in 1955. A source of great pride, Carlos Gardel was originally from Toulouse in France but he lived in Buenos Aires.īecause it is considered too erotic tango has often been condemned. Between 19 Carlos Gardel was famous for singing tango and even today he is considered the greatest tango singer ever. It wasn't until women started dancing it and it became immensely popular on the other side of the Atlantic in Europe that Argentina made it a symbol of national pride.īefore it became sung in lunfardo, Buenos Aires slang, tango was simply a musical form, played on the guitar, flute, violin, bandonéon (a type of concertina) and the piano. To start with it was usually only danced in brothels and only by men! At that time, tango was a working class pastime and the middle classes wanted none of it. During your trip to Argentina you will have the chance to delve deeper into tango.Īt the beginning, in the 1880s, tango was imported by European immigrants. Tango is very closely linked to the history of Buenos Aires, the country's capital.

It is far more erotic that any other dance.
