Mar del Plta City,Fishing holiday

The most fantastic fishing holiday known in Argentina!

-enter one of the world’s last great frontiers-

Explore the untamed wilderness of Mar del Plata. Or simply experience the best game fishing in the world.Think about it: this is your chance to be extraordinary and enjoy your own adventure.

The Region:

No one word describes Mar del Plata better than "Life-Style". From the northern tip of the Bristol Coast to the western mountains of Sierra de Los Padres, MdP is blessed with an awesome natural environment that is seemingly bathed in sun all year-round.

Everywhere you look you see people smiling: locals and tourists alike. But this is not surprising when you have the best beaches in the country; the constant blue of ocean waters and cloudless skies; superb nightlife and al fresco dining; boating, cruising, sailing, water skiing, surfing and parasailing; glorious local wines and sumptuous seafood. Where else could you find all this, except in heaven!

The best fishing in Argentina!

Today, T.A.P.A.S.A. announced that it will be inviting eight guests to join them on a special fishing expedition to the Serene Beach this 22 November, 2006. This is widely considered to be the greatest Giant Shark battle available to recreational fishermen.

"We will do a huge variety of fishing when we get there: They are absolutely massive, 170-kilo plus, and they're schooling around the reefs in vast numbers. Total warfare! ". Said T.A.P.A.S.A. skipper Carlos Aguirre.

T.A.P.A.S.A. (Mar del Plata-Fishing) is nearly 55% booked for all its 2007 fishing charters. For more information please contact us:

For the sun-seekers ... The elegant coast!

Argentina's top traditional beach resort has also become one of its biggest tourist traps, but it still shows its elegance and sophistication in its historical neighborhoods and cultural offerings-especially outside the summer months of January and February.

In January and February, sun-seekers search for a spot on the sand beyond the colorful canvas tents of the countless balnearios that line the beaches of Mar del Plata, Argentina's premier seaside resort.

It's the country's major destination for congresses and conventions, and also a major arts and entertainment center.

Foreign visitors may enjoy the spring and autumn shoulder seasons, when the weather is often better, prices fall, and lines are shorter for the major attractions.

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History

In 1581 Juan de Garay (the founder of Buenos Aires) was probably the first European to spot what he called the costa galana ("elegant coast," a term still used today), but it took nearly two centuries for Jesuit missionaries to establish a presence inland, in the area known as Laguna de los Padres. It took another century-plus for Portuguese investors to build a saladero (meat and hide salting plant) and the port that became Mar de Plata, after they sold out to Patricio Peralta Ramos, in 1874.

Peralta Ramos promoted MdP as an industrial center and, later, as a beach resort that brought the porteño elite to build summer chalets in Barrio los Troncos. The writer Victoria Ocampo, daughter of one of those elite families and founder of the literary magazine Sur, put MdP on the cultural map by bringing famous writers from around Latin America and the world to her own summer house, now a cultural center and museum.

MdP-City (population 1.101,857) stretches along 10 kilometers of sandy Atlantic beaches, 404 kilometers south of Buenos Aires via RN (national route) #2, a four-lane toll road. Most sights lie within the downtown area bounded by the curving coastline, Avenida Independencia ,which runs northeast-southwest, and Avenida Juan Bautista Justo ,which leads northwest from the port.

For most of the day, the busiest part of the city is the parallel pedestrian malls of San Martín and Rivadavia downtown. Other major activity centers are the commercial strip of Güemes, southeast of the bus terminal, and Avenida Leandro N. Alem in the Playa Grande area, to the south, where there are many new restaurants.

The densely built downtown has only a handful of sights, such as the century-old, neo-Gothic Catedral de San Pedro, on the south side of Plaza San Martín. A block to the northwest, at San Martín and La Rioja, the much smaller Plaza Jorge Luis Borges features Miguel Repiso's tiled mural of Argentina's great literary figure.

To the north, just beyond Punta Iglesia, the Monumento a Alfonsina Storni marks the point where, in 1938, the Argentine poet drowned herself by walking into the South Atlantic.

MdP-City may be a more democratic destination than it once was, but Barrio Stella Maris and Barrio los Troncos ,southeast of Plaza Colón, still shine with the patina of a patrician past.

The coastal road: Popularly known as Blvd. Marítimo -to the southeast- leads to the beaches of Cabo Corrientes and Playa Grande, an area whose Avenida Alem and surrounding streets is now one of the city's most active restaurant and nightlife areas.

The log house:

To the west is Barrio los Troncos, whose Chalet los Troncos (1938) is a distinctive log-style house; all its raw materials, including the lapacho and quebracho hardwoods and roof tiles, came from Salta Province.

The Teatro Auditorium is one of the centers of summer musical theater imported from Buenos Aires. Other locales include the Teatro Municipal Colón and the Teatro Corrientes .For those with money to burn, Mardel's Casino Central is the place to start the fire.

South of downtown, beyond Playa Grande and the Mar del Plata Golf Club, the Banquina de Pescadores is a working fishermen's wharf whose docks double as a magnet for tourists. Thanks to its rainbow fleet, the maned male southern sea lions that gather for scraps at the end of the day, and the cluster of nearby seafood restaurants, it's far more entertaining than a day sunning on the beach. Male sea lions can be aggressive toward humans but here, at least, a fence safely separates them from their human admirers. They, along with the multicolored fishing boats, are ideal subjects for photography.

In summer, MdP is Argentina's entertainment capital, even surpassing Buenos Aires for live theater and musical events. Like the capital, MdP has carteleras that sell discount tickets to movies and live theater. Befitting a city with a cinema festival, MdP is a big moviegoers' town; some cinemas are cine teatros that double as live theater venues.

Argentina's cinematic revival has begun to restore the prestige of Mardel's Festival Internacional de Cine, which takes place in March. It is seemed to Cannes and there are plenty of quality offerings from Argentina, the rest of Latin America, and the rest of the world.

Most activities in Mar del Plata center on the beach, ranging from sedentary sunbathing to more-active pastimes like swimming, diving, and fishing; even pursuits like parasailing (which seems to go dangerously close to coastal high-rises) take place in the vicinity of the beach. There is also cycling, horseback riding, and even skydiving. For a thorough list of offerings, write to:

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