Sights in San Antonio De Areco
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Museum and Workshop
This small museum and workshop highlights an exceptional collection of silver facónes (gaucho knives), beautiful horse gear and intricate mate paraphernalia. There’s also some jewelry and leather bags; everything is for sale.
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Museo Y Taller Draghi
The small Museo y Taller Draghi highlights an exceptional collection of silver facones (gaucho knives), beautiful horse gear and intricate mate (tea) paraphernalia. It’s mainly the workshop of Juan José Draghi and family, however, so guided tours are given.
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Centro Cultural Usina Vieja
Set in an old power plant dating from 1901, the Centro Cultural Usina Vieja is an eclectic museum with a funky collection of ancient radios, typewriters, sewing machines and record players. Farm equipment, sculptures, an old-time grocery store and even a small airplane are also on display, as are rotating exhibits of local artists’ work and some of Florencio Molina Campos’ amusing caricatures of gaucho life.
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Museo Gauchesco Ricardo Güiraldes
Inaugurated by the provincial government in 1938, a decade after the death of Ricardo Güiraldes, author of the gaucho novel Don Segundo Sombra, this museum in Parque Criollo is a sort of gaucholand of restored or fabricated buildings, including an old flour mill, a re-created pulpería (tavern) and a colonial-style chapel. The main deal is a 20th-century reproduction of an 18th-century casco (ranch house), which holds a wooden bed belonging to Juan Manuel de Rosas (a famous Argentine caudillo, or warlord), lots of gorgeous horse gear and various works of gauchesco art. Two rooms are dedicated to Güiraldes himself.
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