Bue Spanish offers you the opportunity to learn about the Argentinian Culture through our culture programme. The course lasts one month and is divided into 4 units. The lessons are complemented with activities such as watching films, visiting museums and historical places.

civilizations, colonization & independEnce

• First cultures. Geographic description of the area. Their history, customs, food, clothes, music, dances.

• History: Conquest and colonization: first contact between the indigenous people and the spanish. Buenos Aires fundation. The colonial era. The revolutionary period. Unitary and federal.

• Literature: Romanticism (Esteban Echeverría: La Cautiva / El Matadero), the Gauchesca and poetry of Payadores (José Hernández, Martín Fierro).

• Films that represent this period: Juan Moreira (1973)

• Painting: Most important painters: Eduardo Sívori. Angel Della Valle, Fernando Fader, Prilidiano Pueyrredón, Ernesto de la Cárcova

buenos aires 1870-1930

• History: Immigration. Changes in culture. The formation of the River Plate society.

• Architecture: New urban settings: the appearance of the tenement, new buildings in the city.

• Music and dance: the origin of Tango. Representative authors and singers. The language of tango: Lunfardo.

• Literature: Sainete Criollo. Florida and Boedo groups. Most representative writers: Jorge Luis Borges and Roberto Arlt.

• Painting: Emilio Petorutti, Alfredo Guttero, Xul Solar, Juan Carlos Castagnino, Spilimbergo, Benito Quinquela Martin

• Cinema: The Beginnings. Actors and actresses. Films: Tango (1933), El conventillo de la paloma (1936), Candida (1939)

BUENOS AIRES 1976-1983

• History: Dictatorship and Retun of Democracy

• Culture: Cultural repercussions during the military dictatorship and after the return of Democracy.