Sights in Alta Gracia
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Museo Casa de Ernesto Che Guevara
In the 1930s, the family of youthful Ernesto Guevara moved here because a doctor recommended the dry climate for his asthma. Villa Beatriz was recently purchased by the city and restored as this museum. Its cozy interior is now adorned with a photographic display of Che’s life, and a couple of huge photos commemorating a recent visit from Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez.
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Museo Histórico Nacional del Virrey Liniers
Beside the Iglseia Parraquial Nuestra Señora de la Merced is the Museo Histórico Nacional del Virrey Liniers is named after former resident Virrey Liniers, one of the last officials to occupy the post of Viceroy of the River Plate.
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Tajamar
Directly north of the Museo Histórico Nacional del Virrey Liniers, the Tajamar is one of the city's several 17th-century dams, which together made up the complex system of field irrigation created by the Jesuits.
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Iglesia Parroquial Nuestra Señora de la Merced
From 1643 to 1762, Jesuit fathers built the Iglesia Parroquial Nuestra Señora de la Merced, the estancia’s most impressive building.
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El Obraje
Directly south of the Iglseia Parraquial Nuestra Señora de la Merced, the colonial Jesuit workshops of El Obraje are now a public school.
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