It's a few hours' bus ride away via towns such as Carmelo, from where launches zip day-trippers from Buenos Aires across the River Plate to marvel at rusting fishing boats and overgrown cobblestone streets.
We are crisscrossing the old cobblestone streets of San Telmo, the colonial district of the capital, Buenos Aires.
There are two-up-two-downs in the shadows of block-long warehouses, cobblestone streets with highway views, fishermen casting lines off piers as container ships rumble by, and―my destination―a humble soccer and baseball pitch surrounded by housing projects.Semi-professional soccer teams began playing on this pitch in the late 1960s.
Fifteen construction companies worked day and night for a year to build the Bund, Shanghai's waterfront (pictured), complete with a cathedral, cobblestone streets and 19th century streetlamps.
Epithelial cells are immobile, grow in "cobblestone" patterns and produce proteins that help them stick together.
People still feel safe walking Cuenca's cobblestone streets at night as they seldom do in Quito, the capital.Cuenca has some unavoidable drawbacks.
The inner city was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987; it retains a distinctive medieval character in its narrow cobblestone streets and its faithfully restored houses and shops, along with its ecclesiastical and municipal structures.
The main highland centres are connected by asphalt roads, with asphalt or cobblestone secondary roads to regional market towns.
Because of its colonial character, with its fine Baroque church of Santa Prisca and other churches and buildings lining its steep, narrow, cobblestone streets, it has been declared a national monument and is a tourist centre as well as an art centre.
The city's compact size and relaxed pace makes it the perfect place to lose yourself in its puzzle of cobblestone streets.
The intimate restaurant, which looks out at the cobblestone courtyard and hotel façade, serves excellent modern international cuisine with a changing seasonal menu.
