It has a dramatic history (thanks, Eva Peron), artistic and creative bona fides and city-wide dynamism.
In 1952, Argentina's first lady, Eva Peron, died in Buenos Aires at age 33.
The great Argentine heroine, Eva Peron, is dubbed Santa Evita, or Saint Evita, by her supporters.
It was her second Tony after winning her first award in 1980 for playing Eva Peron in Evita.
But her social work has won her a popularity that sees her regularly compared to the legendary Eva Peron.
At the same time, in a career strikingly like that of the Argentine politician Eva Peron, she became known for an increasingly lavish lifestyle.
Madonna has been the poster child for repeated success as she has spun from Material Girl to Lust Goddess to Eva Peron to Motherhood.
Eva Peron - three years after Eva Peron's death in 1952, her embalmed corpse disappeared, removed by the Argentinean military after a coup that deposed her husband, President Juan Peron.
Eva Peron -- better known by her nickname, Evita -- will be on new 100-peso bills released into circulation in the coming weeks, Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced Wednesday.
"Evita, " which opens Christmas Day, is a screen opera about the life of Eva Peron, the daughter of a poor farmer who rose to power as the first lady of Argentina's President Juan Peron in the 1940s.
Eva Duarte de Peron, wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, has died from cancer, aged 33.
As first lady, Maria Eva Duarte de Peron championed the rights of the poor, pushed for more social programs and argued for women's suffrage, drawing criticism from members of Argentina's political establishment and its upper class.
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