Memories and hints of a travelling IT professional.
Mulen Hotel is a contemporary four-star urban hotel in Tandil, a city in Argentina’s Buenos Aires province. It is designed for both leisure and business travellers, combining accommodation with dining, workspaces and facilities for relaxation. The hotel has around 60 rooms, with balconies and views towards the city and the Tandil hills.
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The Arc Recoleta Boutique Hotel & Spa is a contemporary hotel with a strong emphasis on comfort, wellness and convenient city access. It offers modern, spacious rooms and facilities suited both to leisure travellers and business guests in the very well walkable Recoleta neighborhood of Buenos Aires.
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Eva María Duarte was born in 1919 in the small town of Los Toldos and grew up in modest circumstances. As a teenager, she moved to Buenos Aires to pursue a career as an actress, gradually becoming well known on the radio and stage. Her life changed when she met Colonel Juan Domingo Perón; they married in 1945, and when he became president in 1946, she emerged as one of Argentina’s most influential public figures.
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The Teatro Colón is Buenos Aires’ grand opera house, situated on Avenida Cerrito in the city centre. It presents opera, ballet, symphonic concerts and other classical performances, and is admired for both its richly decorated architecture and exceptionally clear acoustics. Its stage has welcomed many internationally renowned artists, making it one of the most distinguished performing-arts venues in the Americas.
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Montevideo, Uruguay’s capital and principal port, grew from a Spanish military settlement founded between 1724 and 1730 to control the strategically important Río de la Plata and resist Portuguese expansion from Brazil. Its original name was San Felipe y Santiago de Montevideo, while the settlement gradually developed around the bay and its fortified old town. The city’s walls were built in the eighteenth century but demolished in the nineteenth, leaving the Ciudad Vieja and the surviving gateway as reminders of its colonial beginnings.
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The peso uruguayo (UYU), usually written as $ or $U , is Uruguay’s official currency. The present peso was introduced on March 1st, 1993, replacing the nuevo peso at a rate of 1 peso uruguayo for 1,000 nuevos pesos. It is divided into 100 centésimos, although centésimo coins are no longer commonly used.
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The NH Montevideo Columbia is a city hotel in Montevideo, Uruguay, offering accommodation in the historic centre. It is particularly well suited to visitors who want to combine sightseeing with easy access to the waterfront, rather than stay in a secluded resort.
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Aeropuerto Internacional de Carrasco, officially General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport, is Uruguay’s principal international airport and the main gateway to Montevideo. It serves the capital and its metropolitan area, although the terminal itself lies in Ciudad de la Costa, in the department of Canelones, roughly 20 kilometres east of central Montevideo. Its airport code is MVD, and it handles the country’s principal international air connections.
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The Kronsberg is Hannover’s highest natural elevation: a long ridge rather than a conventional mountain. It lies on the south-eastern edge of the city, roughly nine kilometres from the centre, between the Hannover exhibition grounds and the Bockmerholz woodland. The ridge is formed mainly of limestone marl and reaches about 106 metres above sea level in its natural state; an artificial summit mound raises the highest viewpoint to roughly 118 metres.
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The river Garte is a small, approximately 23-kilometre-long tributary of the Leine in Südniedersachsen. Its name gives the Gartetal – literally the Garte valley – its identity, and the river is one of the defining features of the landscape around Gleichen, east and south-east of Göttingen. It rises near Weißenborn, close to the Thüringen border, and flows westwards before reaching the Leine south of Göttingen, near the area east of Rosdorf.
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