The tourists who get to play Golf in Argentina will be able to visit this magnifies Estancias.
In
this case, unlike others, the centre of this
old Jesuit estancia is immersed in the city
which was born precisely from this settlement.
The church presides the central square of
the city, and by its side the residence is
nowadays a museum of the utmost architectural
and historical interest. In one of the lateral
streets, the old workshop holds a school now.
The reservoir, a usual complement of these
buildings, still exists. The church is an
atypical case in the country: on the one hand,
because of its facade without towers, with
its profile made up of repeated uninterrupted
curves, which remind us of a late Italian
baroque, and the reflection of this profile
represented in an elegant shape for the atrium.
On the other hand, and quite unusual indeed
in all Hispanic America, it is atypical because
of the characteristics of the transept, formed
by a widening of the central nave, forming
an oval-shaped plant, and also showing a volume
limited by smoothly curved plans to the outside,
instead of the usual flat ending. |