The tourists who get to play Golf in Argentina will be able to visit this magnifies Estancias.
It was the first rural settlement organized by the Company in 1616. Obtained from priest Ignacio Duarte Quirós, founder of the Colegio Convictorio de Montserrat (a boarding school), who donated it for the support of the school and so that the house would become a holiday residence for the school´s students. Between 1814 and 1816 it was used as an arms factory for the Ejército del Norte, during the Wars of National Independence. In 1854, it was sold to the national government and in 1876, President Avellaneda decided that an immigrants colony from the Friuli region (Italy) be founded there. These immigrants settled in the estancia in the year 1878 until the new village was definitely organized in its nearby. Nowadays, it is a National and Provincial monument.
The Estancia of Caroya comprises the residence distributed round an ample cloister, the chapel, the "perchel" - a fishing place with a special device consisting of a net hung on various poles -, the reservoir, the remains of a windmill and the irrigation ditches together with the orchard areas. All buildings were constructed using local materials (quarry stones, adobes, bricks, "algarrobo" tree beams, windows and doors, hand made Spanish tiles and iron bars of wrought iron made in situ).