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Museo Participativo de Ciencias
In Recoleta visit the Museo Participativo de Ciencias, in the Centro Cultural Recoleta. This hands-on science museum has interactive displays that focus on fun learning. Hours vary widely depending on the season; check before your visit.
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Miguel Mas
This small winery makes some of the country’s only organic sparkling wine and other wine. The whole process – apart from inserting the cork in bottles – is done by hand. Tours (in Spanish only) take you through every step of the process.
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Primera Casa
Gaiman is ideal for an informal walking tour, past homes with ivy trellises and drooping, oversized roses. Architecturally distinctive churches and chapels dot the town. Primera Casa was its first house, built in 1874 by David Roberts.
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Salentein
A state-of-the-art, Dutch-owned winery that’s distinctive for its on-site, contemporary-art gallery and its method of moving grapes and juice by hand and gravity, rather than by machine. English-language tours take place at 11am and 3pm.
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Luigi Bosca
Luigi Bosca, which also produces Finca La Linda, is one of Mendoza’s premier wineries. If you’re into wine, don’t miss it. Tours are available in Spanish and English. Take bus 380 (AR$5.50, one hour) from platform 53 in Mendoza’s bus terminal.
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Parque Nacional Mburucuyá
Well off the beaten track, this national park lies about 180km southeast of Corrientes. It belongs to the same ecoregion as the Esteros del Iberá, and although visitor services are nowhere near as advanced, it offers greater biodiversity.
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Centro Islámico Rey Fahd
This landmark mosque, built by Saudis on land donated by former president Carlos Menem, is southeast of Las Cañitas. Free tours in Spanish are offered three-times weekly (bring your passport, dress conservatively and enter via Av Int Bullrich).
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Viñas de Segisa
This stately old winery has a museum feel. The tour of the underground cellar complex is excellent and tastings are generous. This is one of the few wineries who actually admit to ‘chipping’ (adding oak chips to young wines to improve flavor).
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Planetarium
Due to Malargüe’s remote location, it’s a great spot for stargazing, and the newly opened Planetarium is an excellent, state-of-the-art complex featuring some freaky architecture and some reasonably entertaining audiovisual presentations.
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Iglesia San Ignacio
The city’s oldest church, the Iglesia San Ignacio (1734), is also located at the Manzana de las Luces, originally built in adobe in 1661 and rebuilt or remodelled several times since. Today there remains only a single original cloister
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Pasaje de la Defensa
Originally built for the Ezeiza family in 1880, this building later became a conventillo (tenement house) and was home to 32 families. These days, it’s a charmingly worn building with antique shops clustered around atmospheric leafy patios.
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Casa Padilla
Alongside the Casa de Gobierno, this partly restored mid-19th-century house belonged to provincial governor José Frías (1792–1874), then to his mayor son-in-law Ángel Padilla. European art, Chinese porcelain and period furniture make up the collection.
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Museo de Poesia
One of the quirkier museums in the country, Museo de Poesia honors San Luis’ favorite son, poet Juan Crisóstomo Lafinur. The museum has a few artifacts from the poet’s life, plus handwritten homages to the man by some of Argentina’s leading poets.
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Museo de El Calafate
In shuffled disrepair, Museo de El Calafate displays arrowheads, stuffed penguins and early photographs. Don’t miss the DVD on view, put on constant rotation at the museum, showcasing the greatest glacial ice ruptures at Perito Moreno in recent years.
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Iglesia de Santa Teresa y Convento de Carmelitas Descalzas de San José
Occupying nearly half a city block, the Iglesia de Santa Teresa y Convento de Carmelitas Descalzas de San José was completed in 1628 and has functioned ever since as a closed-order convent for Carmelite nuns. Only the church itself is open to visitors.
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Complejo Astronómico El Leoncito
The Parque Nacional El Leoncito is home to the Complejo Astronómico El Leoncito , which contains two important observatories: Observatorio El Leoncito and Observatorio Cesco . Night visits must be reserved by contacting Yafar Destinos in San Juan.
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Colegio Camwy
Gaiman is ideal for an informal walking tour, past homes with ivy trellises and drooping, oversized roses. Architecturally distinctive churches and chapels dot the town. Dating from 1906, theColegio Camwy is considered the first secondary school in Patagonia.
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Parque de los Menhires
At pretty El Mollar, at the other end of the valley from Tafí, you can visit the Parque de los Menhires on the plaza, a collection of more than 100 carved standing stones found in the surrounding area. They were produced by the Tafí culture some 2000 years ago.
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Reserva Provincial Parque Luro
Home to a mix of introduced and native species, as well as over 150 species of birds, this 76-sq-km reserve is a delightful spot to while away some easy hours. It’s more peaceful on weekdays: the picnicking masses from Santa Rosa descend en masse at the weekends.
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Museo Tradicionalista Fuerte Independencia
This historical museum, worth a walk-through for context, exhibits a large and varied collection on Tandil’s history. Photographs commemorate major events, and the place is filled with relics – from carriages to ladies’ gloves – donated by local families.
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