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Convento de San Bernardo
Only Carmelite nuns may enter the 16th-century Convento de San Bernardo, but visitors can approach the blindingly whitewashed adobe building (consider sunglasses) to admire the carved, 18th-century algarrobo door. The nuns sell pastries through a traditional revolving cupboard that avoids their having direct contact with the outside world.
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Iglesia Catedral
Salta's 19th-century cathedral harbors the ashes of General Martín Miguel de Güemes, a Salteño and independence hero, as well as those of other important historical figures; even today, the gauchos of the Salta province proudly flaunt their red-striped ponchos de güemes .
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