Alta Gracia
From Jesus Maria, Monday, September 26th was public holidays in
Argentina. All stores were closed including Carrefour in Cordoba
except McDo where I took a complement of breakfast to publish the
pages of my website. I continued my way towards Alta Gracia. At the
entrance of the city I stopped at the kiosk of Tourist Information
to collect booklets. The city is made proud of three celebrities, a
revolutionist Ernesto Guevara, known as El Che, a composer Manuel de
Falla and a sculptor Gabriel Simmonet called Gabriel Dubois. These
three personalities have each one their museum required passage of
the city visit, open in this Monday. Of course I made the tour as
from 15:00. The museum of "Che" is the best visited and the most
organized with objects having belonged to him. The hostess gave me a
French file whom tells his story since his childhood, his studies of
medicine and with his journeys in South America before his meeting
with Fidel Castro Ruiz and his exploits of revolutionist in Cuba,
Congo and Bolivia where wounded he was assassinated by a Bolivian
soldier. I am not an aficionado of "Che", but I must recognize that
he was a man of conviction. He went until the end of his
convictions, witness the last letter to his wife and his four
children. The museum Manuel de Falla is a Spanish composer born in
Cadiz in 1876. He emigrated in 1939 in Argentina at Cordoba then in
various cities to be established finally in Alta Gracia where he
died in 1970. The museum is decorated of some cartoons of the
composer and of which that below of the most famous composers.
Finally the museum Gabriel Dubois exhibits works of the sculptor,
primarily ceramics and terracotta. In the garden a counterpart of
the monument dedicated to Marie Louis Roland. While arriving I had
found a spot of bivouac in Parque Frederico Garcia Lorca where I
remained two nights.
Three museums, click the picture
On Tuesday morning I explored the Museo Nacional Estancia Jesuitica
y Casa del Virrey Liniers. The rooms present furniture primarily
from 19th century posterior to the occupation of the site by the
Jesuits as well as liturgical objects. Two parts are particularly
remarkable, Ecce Homo and a painting of the 18th century, Peru
origin. Being next the Parroquia Nuestra Señora de la Merced of
baroque style was built from 1723 to 1762.
Estancia Jesuitica y Casa del Virrey Liniers,
Parroquia Nuestra Señora de la Merced, click the picture
Villa General Belgrano
Wednesday, September 28th was a gloomy day with an accident on the
road skirting the Los Molinos artificial lake. It is not narrow but the passing of
trucks poses problems, witness the accident below. The passing of the
bus in descent with the truck in rise exploded the panes of the bus. At
whom is the fault? The truck had priority while going up, but here in
South America nobody respects this priority. Moreover my experiment of
the road showed me that the bus drivers have a timing to respect, they
drive at the maximum authorized speed crossing the double continuous
lines. The truck drivers are not without fault. At all events the
travellers on the side of the accident must have a great fright with the
noise of the explosion and the pieces of glass. Villa General Belgrano
will not leave me a great memory. Admittedly it is a typically German
city with its bars with Germanic beer and its bierbauch. After some
pictures and a city map I went my way to find a bivouac at the edge of
the water of Rio Los Reartes.
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| Exploded panes |
Visit of the city, click the picture
La Cumbercita
On Thursday, September 29th I went to the center of the village of
Los Reartes to gather booklets at the T.I. I learned that there is a
WIFI connection close to the church. Bingo, it has a good speed.
Then I went to Cumbercita where two disappointments expected me. The
first it is necessary to leave the car in a carpark, crammed, the
second I parked my truck at the entrance with buses. But half an
hour after the sky fell on my head, in the clouds at 1416 m of
altitude.
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| Los Reartes |
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| Bivouac La Cumbrecita |
Los Reartes
On Friday morning September 30th I was always in the clouds with
little hope that the sky cleared. I decided to go down to Los
Reartes again to use the good WiFi connection in front of the
church. I benefitted from it to update Windows 10 as well as the
various bases of virus signatures. Of course I threw an eye on my
bank account as well as the payments of my taxes and with my e-mail
box. Then I made a press review to note that it was always the same
mess in France. I returned to bivouac at the edge of water.
On Saturday, October 1st after having used the WiFi connection
during all the morning I went to Villa General Belgrano around
midday to attend the procession representing the various nations of
the emigrants in Argentina. It was a colourful folklore with
thundering music, blech musik. I returned for the last time to my bivouac at Los
Reartes.
Oktoberfest, click the picture
Villa General Belgrano, Camping La Florida
Again on Sunday, October 2d I passed a good part of the morning in
front of the church of Los Reartes to use WiFi connection. Then I
went to the Camping La Florida for my Sunday ablutions as well as
the full of drinking water. The owner, of German origin, proposed to
me to take part in the Sunday parrilla, I accepted well readily. The
reunions started around 15:00 to go until 19:00. The participants
were all from Germany…. Of course the conversation was… in German.
Camping La Florida, click the picture
