Reconquista

Overview

Reconquista may not be the big tourist city you would jump at the chance of travelling to. No bright lights, casinos, streets of restaurants or theme parks here. But if you are looking to experience part of 'small-town Argentina' while not going too small, Reconquista is a good place to check out.

With a population of 70,000 people Reconquista is small without being scarily so. Nearby Avellaneda is 4km across the river and it is 25,000 residents add to the general population of the area.

Reco (as it is fondly known as to the locals) is located in the north of the province of Santa Fe, near the Rio Parana. It is a city traditionally designed with all streets parallel to eachother, interspersed with many green plazas (small squares). The main central plaza is a popular meeting point of the city's youths. In the university holidays and feriados (public holidays) when the students come home, the plaza is full of people doing laps in their cars along the narrow streets, friends sitting near their cars or on the curbside driking a Quilmes (beer) and eating hamburgers from the caravan parked nearby. It is here that they will come before heading out to one of the city's nightclubs.

Here there is little choice. Chicano, located on Calle Obligado and Habegger, is the city's main nightclub. Recently moved from Avellaneda, some of the older clubbers think it has lost it's orignal charm, but it is still a fun place to go to dance the night...more

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