Return to Buenos Aires

12/17/16

After our return to Arc Recoleta Hotel and a hilarious welcome briefing by Nicole, we were treated to a wonderful tango lesson.  We have some pretty awesome dancers in our group that looked great.

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After working up an appetite dancing, the entire group - now 24 instead of 14 - headed to La Antigua Tasca de los Cuchilleros, where we had another Argentinian steak dinner. I haven't eaten this much beef in a long time and so late at night - I'll probably weigh at least 10 pounds more when I get home.

After dinner, we were treated to a dramatic presentation by Nicole and Maria about a tragic love story. Margarita, the daughter of Sergeant Oliden, a special police chief under Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas once lived here. The father wanted his daughter to marry Ciriaco Cuitiño, head of the special police. However, she escaped with an itinerant singer with whom she was in love, until they were found by Cuitiño in the town of Luján. He shot Margarita, who returned to her home to die.

Maria then took us down the stairway leading to the tunnel so we could check out some of the architectural artifacts discovered in a tunnel excavated below the restaurant. 

(Left to right) Maria unlocks the entrance to the tunnel; 

some of our group pose on the spiral steps leading down to the tunnel; 

a view looking up at the women's bathroom, where you can actually see the tunnel through the floor; and Maria showing us the incredible construction of the tunnel 

and some of the artifacts on display.