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One of the most visited tourist spots in Buenos Aires is also an oasis of tranquility in the midst of one of the city’s more popular nightspots. After all, it can’t get any quieter than being surrounded by the dead.

Located on 1760 Junín, in what used to be the garden of the Our Lady of The Pilar church, the Recoleta Cemetery was inaugurated as the first public graveyard of the city back in 1822. Decades later, after a restoration and with the opening of the much larger graveyards located in Chacarita and Flores, Recoleta became the posh cemetery: the “it” place to be and be seen in your afterlife if you were a VIP during your life time.

San Telmo is the old neighborhood in Buenos Aires best known for the antiques sold and tango danced in its Plaza Dorrego. For a long time now it has been tourist destination for shopping and traditional dining, and currently, it is experiencing a real estate boom. It’s becoming a popular alternative to Palermo. While Palermo Viejo has embraced modern design and hip couture and cuisine, San Telmo covets its 19th Century conventillos and resto-bars. San Telmo is traditional and decidedly Argentine. The barrio also has some great old-fashioned murals and graffiti that say a lot about its recent history.

(Check out the first part of this interview) ATG got the chance to speak with Buenos Tours’ Alan Patrick and learn more about his walking tour of the historic Buenos Aires center. We asked his advice about what not to do on your visit to Buenos Aires and learned that tour guides can get harassed on the job in this sexiest of cities!