ps probably, the "best" ones, as described by you, are in El Centro,
Almagro/Abasto and a couple in Palermo/Villa Crespo.* But the city is easy to
navigate and unless you have an aversion to using taxis, buses and subways to
get there, you can get anywhere you'd like, relatively easily, from anywhere
else. If you want to stay strictly on foot, you should probably be ensconced
either in San Telmo or Palermo/Palermo Viejo. San Telmo/El Centro/San
Cristobal/Boedo tends to have more milonguero style milongas, per block,
probably, with a very nice, antique, scenic, architectural environment.
Palermo has fewer such style milongas, with more green spaces and newer
buildings. There are many lovely tango houses in both areas, with studios on
site. Almagro milongas are easily accessed from both barrios as it is about
halfway between the other two. Palermo and San Telmo have plenty of police on
every corner and San Telmo has greatly modernized, recently,
with anti-crime lights and quaint cobblestoned, pedestrian malls. Palermo has
many, many parks, the horseracing track, polo fields and wider paved streets,
to give the visitor a sense of more space and green, although San Telmo is only
blocks from Puerto Madero, down by the river, which is a lovely modern area to
stroll, as well as the Costanera Sur preserve, with bike trails, etc. Both
barrios have plenty of trendy restos/bars to enjoy. Almagro tends to be
sketchy, for the more modern conveniences and lacks a certain charm for living,
but has some really interesting/unusual venues for very nice milongas....Konex
for La Garufa; La Catedral for milongas all week and Juvenil for La Maria
Practica, etc. just to name a few. Hopefully, this gives you some helpful
guidelines. Cheers, dnb
*Ideal, El Beso, P. Bailarin, Peru 571, Independencia 752(572?), Gricel, Plaza
Dorrego, to name a few.
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