Tourist Circuits

CTC BUILDING – COLOR TV COMPANY

This huge colonial style building was opened in 1928 and was the property of the National Mortgage Bank. It well worth a short visit in order to appreciate the epoch’s ornaments and the yellow and white moldings with extraordinary plaster motives on the walls. It is located at the corner of Comandante Salas and Day Streets.

HIPOLITO YRIGOYEN PARK

Only ten blocks from the very core of the city, we find this green area with a special sector destined for children with various playgrounds, an open air sports complex with swimming pool and a small residence for sportsmen and women. There is also an open air Greek Theatre (“Chacho Santa Cruz”) with a capacity for 10,000 sitting people where many artistic and cultural shows take place.

There is a Monument to the Argentine Gaucho, the Harvest Statue (Vendimia) and the Tango Plaza.

MARIANO MORENO PARK

This park is on the Rio Diamante Island, 7 kilometers from the city and is a nature refuge for both local people and visitors. It has a small artificial lake, a grotto of the Immaculate Conception Virgin, a zoo and a camping site offering diverse services. The National Natural History Museum is here on the Diamante River Island too.

MARIANO MORENO LIBRARY AND FINE ARTS MUSEUM

The library is located at 148, Bernardo de Yrigoyen Street and was founded in 1919. It has contributed to the education of passing “Sanrafaelinos” generations with the thousands of volumes it shelters on the arts and sciences. It organizes the annual “Biblos” Book Fair. The Fine Arts Museum exhibits works by great Argentine painters such as Castagnino, Victorica, Fader, Spilimbergo, Fornes and Petorutti as well as many sculptures by local artists.

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