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Salvador Figueroa
This tiny friendly-family winery in town produces only 8000 bottles of torrontés and malbec per year with small hand-operated equipment.
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Train Station
Stroll over to the lovely former train station for a look at its green corrugated-metal roofs and decorative ironwork dating from 1884.
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Visitor Center
The Visitor Center has displays on natural history, including a small reptile house, and offers video screenings throughout the day.
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Di Tomasso
Di Tomasso is a beautiful, historical vineyard dating back to the 1830s. The tour includes a quick pass through the original cellar section.
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Museo Argentino del Títere
In San Telmo, check out the puppet museum, Museo Argentino del Títere, which has inexpensive weekend shows that will amuse the little urchins.
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Monumento a los Caidos de Malvinas
On the downhill side of Plaza San Martín you’ll see the Monumento a los Caídos de Malvinas, a memorial to the young men who died in the Falklands War.
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Pasaje Dardo Rocha
The French Classic Pasaje Dardo Rocha was once La Plata’s main railroad station and is now the city’s major cultural center, containing two museums.
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Fundación Artesanías Misioneras
Guaraní culture is strong in this part of Argentina; particularly fine pieces are displayed and sold here. Theres another branch on the costanera .
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Lookout Tower
If you need a little perspective on things, make your way up the Lookout Tower for a sweeping view out over the town and surrounding countryside.
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Teatro Argentino
The Teatro Argentino is a fantastically ugly concrete monolith, but boasts great acoustics and quality ballet, symphony and opera performances.
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Playa Escondida
For the adventurous, there’s Playa Escondida , some 25km south of Mardel and possibly Argentina’s only legal nude beach. Bus 221 gets you there.
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Casa de la Cultura
The early-19th-century Casa de la Cultura was the site of a tahona (flour mill).
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Basílica de Santo Domingo
Dating from 1861, this is the third church to be built on this site – the previous two having been washed away when La Cañada overran its banks.
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Basílica Santo Domingo
This 19th-century church has a classical portico. It houses the much-revered Virgen del Rosario, a painted wood sculpture originally from Cuzco.
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Museo y Archivo Dardo Rocha
The Museo y Archivo Dardo Rocha was the vacation house of the city’s creator and contains period furniture and many of his personal knickknacks.
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Funda Cruz
An attractive, imported, prefabricated wooden house. Once a customs office, it now hosts cultural activities as well as a salón de té (teahouse).
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Cabeza del Indio
On a ridge 7km west of town is Cabeza del Indio, a rock outcrop resembling a man’s profile; the trail has great views of the Río Azul and Lago Puelo.
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Museo de la Inmigración
At this engaging museum, old photographs, films and artifacts tell the stories of the European immigrants who arrived in Buenos Aires in the late 1880s.
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Museo de los Niños
The Mercado de Abasto boasts a full-blown Museo de los Niños where kids enter a miniature city complete with post office, hospital and even TV station.
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Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas
This exceptionally good cultural center has a wide range of affordable classes, including in dance, music, photography, theater, film and language studies.
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