Trancas, Argentina

Trancas is the capital of the departments in the province of Tucumán Trancas in northwestern Argentina. The municipality is located north of the provincial capital San Miguel de Tucumán.

History

The name Trancas is derived according to legend, by a warrior called Quilmes Chanca, the San Francisco Solano is said to have accompanied on his missionary journeys.

• By 1600, the first settlement will be named Pozo del Pescado.
• 1760, when the Jesuits established the first parish church in Villa de Trancas, the settlement was a resting place for travelers to Salta.
• In 1763 the place is laid three kilometers to the south.
• On August 7, 1816 takes over General Manuel Belgrano in Trancas command of the Ejército del Norte and triggers General José Rondeau from. During the wars of independence, especially during the Batalla de Tucumán Trancas was a strategically important location for the defense of the North.
• 1820, Colonel Bernabé Araóz is appointed as the first Gobernador the República de Tucumán.
• 1824 Selbiger Araóz is shot on the south wall of the church of Trancas.

The Iglesia del Sagrado Corazón de Trancas Viejo ( in Trancas Viejo, about 2 km from the village center ) was built in 1760 by the Jesuits in 1826 and destroyed by an earthquake. On the foundations of the present church was built, which is an example of the austere post-colonial architecture of the first half of the 19th century. The church, with its whitewashed adobe walls is the only building which is of Old Trancas, called Villa Vieja obtained. It consists of the bell tower, the nave and the chapel. The interior is kept simple, with a choir as a transitional zone into the interior and the chapel in the background. In religious art (possibly from a Alto Perú workshop ) are the figures of the patron saint San Joaquin, San Jose and a Nazarene.

In this church the Argentine sculptor Lola Mora was baptized. In 1957 the church was declared a Monumento Histórico Nacional.