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The tourists who get to play Golf in Argentina will be able to visit this magnifies Estancias.
The estancia as a whole is a complex layout formed by two existing units and two other missing ones: the temple and the old residence. The missing parts were the slaves and aboriginal "indians"' quarters, made up of real whole "indian" villages, and finally the lands used for cultivation and pasture. The wine industry, which reached a high degree of development and quality, was the main characteristic of this estancia. Such activity has in fact developed throughout the years and has become a characteristic of the whole area. This estancia´s lay-out coincides with the usual type of Córdoba's Jesuit estancia - the temple and patio surrounded by corridors, in this case, by two of its sides only. These one and two-storey corridors, are covered with the usual techniques -domed mezzanines, rafter roofs. It is natural they do not cover the third side, since that was the labour area, not the residence. In the church, which has one nave and a marked transept, there is a beautiful contrast formed between the carving of the inner side of the dome and its pendentives, the well finished dome, the elegant belfry strangely placed diagonally next to the sacristy, with a poor-looking and disproportionate façade of an ungracious ingenuity.

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