Archivo para la categoría ‘Easter’
Marzo 31, 2010 | Por hostel-colonial | Claves: backpackers in buenos aires, Hostel Colonial | # Enlace permanente
These days, the city is commemorating the Christian Holy Week and the Pesaj (Jewish Easter). The Tourism Organization of Buenos Aires prepared for the occasion a series of activities which include guided visits to the churches and temples of our city, a Via Crucis, live music shows and allegoric exhibitions. These activities are developed in the Religious Tourism program that promotes the Ministry of Culture.
This program points to the strengthening of the city religious circuits and prioritizes the revaluation of the religious architecture in an annual calendar that includes different celebrations, festivities and pilgrimages. The Religious Tourism is an activity that moves millions of people around the world and its cultural heritage is one of the main riches of Buenos Aires. The cultural diversity and the different communities reflect in several cults that mold the Porteño identity, add activities and attractive in each creed.
During this week, two of the city’s major religions celebrate their Easter. The Christians commemorating the Holy Week, the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus. The Jewish community, with its festivity that shows their spirit of freedom and birth of their people, the passage from slavery in Egypt to the miraculous salvation and liberation, physical as well as spiritual.
A full list of activities can be found in the Buenos Aires City Government website (available only in Spanish).
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Marzo 29, 2010 | Por hostel-colonial | Claves: argentina, backpackers in buenos aires, Hostel Colonial, Hostel in Buenos Aires | # Enlace permanente
If you’re thinking of coming to Buenos Aires, it’s essential for you to know the public holiday calendar to organize your trip. With the objective of promoting tourism, Argentina often moves some holidays to their closest Monday or Friday, creating the so called “Long weekends”. There are few exceptions: Labor Day (May 1st), Revolution Day (May 25th), Independence Day (July 9th), Christmas (December 25th) and New Year (December 31st and January 1st). The rest are adapted to have longer breaks.
On holidays, the amount of people in the city declines. Especially, Downtown where most of the offices are located. ¿Where do porteños go? Many chose to stay at home with their families or to go out to parks of coffees (depending on the season). Those who had the time to plan a trip, traditionally move to the Atlantic Coast, seaside resorts located 300-400km south of Buenos Aires. Some of the most popular are San Bernardo, Villa Gessell, Pinamar y Mar del Plata.
This year we have had only two holidays (New Year on January 1st and Memory Day on March 24th) and there’s another one coming (Easter, from April 1st to April 4th). Hostel Colonial gives you the full public holiday, so you can plan your trip in the best way.
April 1st: Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday).
April 2nd: Holy Friday (Good Friday) and Malvinas Veteran and Fallen Day.
April 3rd: Holy Saturday.
April 4th: Easter.
May 1st: Labor Day.
May 25th: Revolution Day and First Argentine Government. This year we also commemorate our Bicentennial.
June 21st: Death of General Manuel Belgrano (originally on June 20th).
July 9th: Independence Day.
August 16th: Death of General José de San Martín (originally on August 17th).
October 11th: Encounter of Two Cultures –former Race Day- (originally on October 12th).
December 8th: Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.
December 25th: Christmas.
December 31st: New Years Eve.
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Marzo 7, 2008 | Por hostel-colonial | Claves: Hostel Buenos Aires, Hostel Colonial | # Enlace permanente
This next March 17th Buenos Aires will tinted in green to celebrate the day of the saint of Ireland, Saint Patrick´s Day, in pubs with Celtic, rock and electronic music, and the most important of all … a lot of beer (Guinnes is the star beer) !!
While ago, St. Patrick’s Day was an exclusive celebration of the Irish community but with the boom of Irish pubs, they started to promote this fun and colorful feast.
Over the last Saint Patrick’s Day crowds of people dressed and painted in green began to fill completly bars looking for many pints of imported beer and Celtic music shows …
But with increasingly Argentines followers of the saint, the pubs were small and people began to celebrate in the streets of the area.
This March 17, anticipating another great call was cut to passage in the area between Marcelo T. De Alvear St., 25 de Mayo St., Reconquista St., San Martin St. and Cordoba Avenue.
And in the middle of the big party.. in the Hostel Colonial, we are getting ready for a green and fun celebration…
We are located just a block away from the Reconquista Street, where you can find diferents proposals in all the irish bars located there…and of course we are planning our own parties here with all our americans, brazilians, chileans, paraguayans, uruguayans, mexicans, colombians…ect, well actually friends for all over the world that will be spending Easter with us.
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