BA Tourist Maps

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As Buenos Aires has recovered from the gut/sucker/rabbit punch of its 2001/2002 economic meltdown and peso devaluation -- and tourists have discovered it as the best place to feel rich without actually being so -- the city has been figuring out how to package itself as a tourist destination. In one of his always fabu posts, Line of Sight blogger Robert Wright tracks how the city's municipal tourist maps have changed and grown as the city sells more and more neighborhoods to the outside world:

Seems like the Subsecretaría de Turismo is waking up & beginning to realize that there is whole lot more to the city than the supposed trendiness of Palermo or the antique fair in San Telmo.

Thank sweet baby Jesus for that. Because the old maps, if you were to transpose them to New York, would have only covered 5th Avenue and the West Village.

self image [Line of Sight]
Buenos Aires Tourism [Official site]

-- Ian Mount