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Poshest shopping (YSL, Rykiel) is around Place des Jacobins (6), though certain hip outfits (Marie Sixtine, Bobbies) are moving to the Hotel Dieu redevelopment (grand-hotel-dieu.com).

£1,000 benefit from what amounts to an additional £500 worth of pesos against last December.

Though many hotels in destinations such as the capital, Buenos Aires, price their rooms in US dollars, meaning reductions are harder to find, goods and services valued in the peso, such as dinners out and local attractions, offer excellent savings.

Research by currency analysts FairFX found that the pound is worth 374 per cent more in Argentina than it was in 2012, a better increase than in any other country in the world.

Chief executive Ian Strafford-Taylor said the pound’s future closer to home looking less stable as Britain prepares to leave the EU means travellers should consider long-haul trips in 2019.

“It is likely there will be even more turbulence for the pound against the euro,” he said. “Holidaymakers should make 2019 the year they look further afield at destinations where the pound is performing stronger.”

FairFX identified nine other countries where the pound is up compared with this time last year, including Turkey (29 per cent up), Iceland (16 per cent) and Zambia (14 per cent). Argentina’s neighbour Brazil, has also