Buenos Aires talks tango!!!. Walk down San Telmo, Palermo or La Boca and you will read tango art and history in tango dancers on the streets or clubs, and in the "machista" attitude the man adopts to dance with the woman, when he drives or even when he whispers loving words.

The exact origins of Argentinean tango are lost in myth, but by the mid-1800s, an intermixing of African, Spanish, Italian, British, Polish, and Russian cultures began to influence Argentina. This melting pot of cultures borrowed different dance and music elements from one another, all creating a fantastic hybrid called "tango. The worldwide spread of tango began in the early 1900s. This is when Argentine society families made their way to Paris and introduced tango into a culture eager for modernization and receptive to the risqué nature of the dance. By 1913, the tango had become an international phenomenon in Paris, London and New York. There were tango teas, tango train excursions and even tango colors, particularly red and black. Argentine elite, who had shunned the dance, now accepted it with national pride. The dance appeared in movies and tango singers traveled the world. By the 1930s, the Golden Age of Argentina had begun. The country became one of the ten richest nations in the world. Music and poetry flourished, and the tango soon became an essential expression of Argentine culture.