Description: This envelope includes information on the historic monuments in Santiago del Estero include: the old Town Hall (or Cabildo), the parish and convent of San Francisco Solano , the tomb of Absalón Rojas in the cemetery of Santiago, the sanctuary of Our Lady of Consolation, Our Lady of L...
Description: The Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires National High School) was created in mid-16th century and administered by the Jesuits. When the latter were suppressed in 1767, the school languished until President Bartolomé Mitré renamed it with its actual name and the school started...
Description: In 1920, Pope Benedict XV designated Father Miguel de los Santos de Andrea as bishop due to his social work. Two years later, he founded the Federation of Catholic Employees that provided doctors’ offices and soup kitchens for the poor in the city of Buenos Aires. The main establishm...
Description: According to the experts, the Carnival of Buenos Aires boomed at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. Carnival troupes and comparsa became so famous that they always counted with a massive participation including the local elite and the authorities. ...
Description: Catamarca is one of the provinces in north west Argentina characterised by an arid and semi-arid climate with fertile valleys. Catamarca remained isolated from the rest of Argentina until the arrival of the railways by the end of the 19th century. This envelope shows the towns that ...
Description: San Jorge is a gulf in the province of Chubut part of the Patagonian region; consequently it stands on the Argentine Sea part of the Atlantic Ocean. Alfonso Camargo was the Spaniard who led the expedition in the once defined river. It was further explored in the 18th century. Now is ...
Description: In the early 1900s, the Portuguese Mutual Aid Society was created from different smaller mutual aid societies that had existed in different locations of Argentina. Its goal was to support the many Portuguese immigrants who were most of them seasonal rural workers. In these societies ...