Forclaz Mill - Province of Entre Rios

The Forclaz Mill is a Dutch style windmill that was built in between 1888 and 1890 for milling corn and wheat.

Since the mill required powerful winds to work properly, the Forclaz mill never got to work at its full capacity. Its owner had to go back to the old milling system called winch.

Its constructor was Juan Bautista Forclaz. Forclaz was originally from Switzerland. He arrived in Entre Rios in 1859, when he was 6 years old.

Amphitheatre “Hector Santangelo"

The amphitheatre “Hector Santangelo" is located next to Urquiza’s Park in the city of Parana, in the province of Entre Rios. The name of the amphitheatre remembers the main promoter of theatre plays in the province.

Once located in that semi-circle you will have the fantastic feeling of being isolated from all the sounds that might surround Urquiza’s Park, in the city of Parana, and this is an experience worth having even when there are no performances taking place in the amphitheatre.

Biedma Building – City of Buenos Aires

Its style is academic and is characterized by a studied arrangement, not only in relation to it’s outside but also to its inside.

These types of apartment buildings were, in general, spacious and luxurious constructions, since they were meant to be occupied by wealthy families.

Although academic architecture was very criticized, even from a social perspective, it cannot be denied that it used extremely studied, refined and stable lines, like those exhibited by the building on Gaona Avenue, where the French influence is clearly exposed in each of its details, even in the curved line of the corner crowned by the hollowed frontis, which seems to be replacing the classical dome.

Cafe Tortoni – City of Buenos Aires

A French immigrant named Touan decided to inaugurate this café by the end of 1858.The name “Tortoni” was taken from a café in the Boulevard des Italiens, inaugurated in 1798 by a Napolitano who made his fortune in Paris, and in which the elite of Parisian culture gathered in the XIXth century. This café no longer exists.

The reading room used to be the café’s barbershop. It was usual for cafes to have a barber shop inside in those times in Buenos Aires.

The Tango Orchestras, Ladies Orchestras or Jukebox players would perform in the balcony above the kitchen.

Espinosa Neighbourhood – City of Buenos Aires

Monsignor Espinosa neighbourhood was constructed thanks to an important national collect. Countless donations were made, being the first one the plot given by Pereyra Iraola.

Several families applied for a house in this neighbourhood, and the needier ones among them were chosen.

Each family was offered the possibility of purchasing the house they were living in at 3 million Argentine pesos in the 1970s.The “Hogar Obrero” (Labourers Home) assisted those who did not have that amount of money; and a plaque thanking that entity can be seen today.

Benedictine Abbey – Province of Entre Rios

The Benedictine Monks Abbey, close to the city of Victoria, is a special congregation of monks that arrived in Victoria in the XIXth century.

There they fabricate their famous Benedictine liqueurs, as well as royal jelly and honey.

Their cloisters have witnessed time go by, and those walls zealously preserve the formula for the fabrication of liqueurs that the Benedictines have been keeping for thousands of years.

Bar Ideal –Tierra del Fuego

The prisoners from Ushuaia’s penitentiary that had a good behaviour used to meet in this bar, since in it there used to be a grocery store that was attended either by a hairdresser or a butcher, and in which people could have a drink in addition to buying their groceries.

The classical construction in wood covered by sheet metal on the outside is preserved with almost no changes; except for the bars covering the windows that were originally on the inside in order to avoid the drunkards to bump directly into the glass and get hurt.

Today, the “Bar Ideal” is considered one of Ushuaia’s historical-architectural relics.

Government House - Province of Entre Rios

The government house, conceived as a European Palace, is crowned by a clock tower. The latter from the Province of Corrientes.

Augusto Sedner, clockmaker, ordered the construction of the clock to Benedicto Schneger Sconnan, a German clockmaker; and later matched all the details of the mechanism and placed the complete work in the tower that was completely constructed under his command.

It has the curiosity of repeating the time 3 minutes after having reproduced it for the first time.

Provincial Historical Museum, Dr. Orestes Di Lullo – Santiago del Estero

The house were Santiago del Estero’s Historical Museum is located was built in between 1810 and 1820 under the command of Vicente Diaz Gallo.

A household sugar mill can be found in one of the courtyards. It was brought from Rio Hondo to be exposed in this museum. Sugar was exploited all over the province.

The coat of arms of the “Very Noble and Loyal City of Santiago del Estero” can be found in this museum too. It is from 1577 and it is something of which the people of the province of Santiago del Estero are very proud of since this province was the only one receiving this distinction from the King of Spain.

Photography Museum – City of Buenos Aires

When entering the Photography Museum you will definitely wonder: - Am I in a bar? In a coffee shop? Or in a museum?

This is because the Photography Museum is located inside Palacio Bar. The tables stand in the way of the display cabinets that are filled with cameras and accessories from different times. And you can enjoy a coffee while observing the cameras that seem to surround you from every corner.

The museum currently exhibits 600 cameras, from antique ones made of wood with bellows and a bronze objective from 1885; to big and heavy studio cameras; going through portable cameras or those of street photographers. In addition, the museum also exhibits stereoscopic cameras for three-dimensional photography, miniature cameras for espionage, Polaroids, direct-sight cameras, reflex and even a binocular that takes pictures.