Córdoba Sights

  1. Capilla Doméstica

    The Capilla Doméstica, completed in 1644, sits directly behind the church on Caseros. Its ornate ceiling was made with cowhide stretched over a skeleton of thick taguaro cane and painted with pigments composed partially of boiled bones. Guided visits leave from inside the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.

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  2. Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús

    Designed by the Flemish Padre Philippe Lemaire, the Manzana Jesuítica Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús dates from 1645 but was not completed until 1671, with the successful execution of Lemaire's plan for a cedar roof in the form of an inverted ship's hull. Lemaire was once, unsurprisingly, a boat builder. Inside, the church's baroque altarpiece is made from carved Paraguayan cedar from Misiones province.

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  3. Parroquia Sagrado Corazón de Jesús de los Capuchinos

    While you're in Nueva Córdoba, pop over to the marvelous neo-Gothic Parroquia Sagrado Corazón de Jesús de los Capuchinos, built between 1928 and 1934, whose glaring oddity is its missing steeple (omitted on purpose to symbolize human imperfection). Among the numerous sculptures that cover the church's facade are those of Atlases symbolically struggling to bare the spiritual weight of the religious figures above them (and sins and guilt of the rest of us).

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