DÍA DE LA TRADICIÓN

This celebration, which has become a national holiday, takes place in San Antonio de Areco on November 10, 110 km from Buenos Aires. For more than 70 years, the inhabitants of this small village have been celebrating the gaucho culture. Folkloric dances, horsemanship tests, parades, barbecues, craft markets, games, dances and rodeos enliven the proceedings. The date of this celebration is not random: it is the date on which the Argentine author and poet José Hernández, a mythical figure for all gauchos , was born