Salta

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Introducing Salta

Sophisticated Salta is many travelers’ favorite, smoothing ruffled psyches with its profusion of services, engaging active minds with its outstanding museums, and lighting romantic candles with its plaza-side cafés and the live música folklórica of its popular peñas. It offers the facilities of a large town, retains the comfortable vibe of a smaller place, and preserves more colonial architecture than most places in Argentina.

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It’s the most touristed spot in northwest Argentina, and has numerous accommodation options. The center bristles with travel and tour agents; this is the place to get things organized for onward travel. Nevertheless, there’s a poorer Salta readily visible if you venture toward the city’s outskirts, with a large population of indigenous farmfolk from the province and Bolivia searching, often in vain, for a better life in the big city.

Last updated: Feb 17, 2009

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