Alta Gracia
Alta Gracia is a city in the province of Cordoba in central Argentina. It lies on the southern slopes of the Sierra Chica at the junction of the Sierra in the Sierra de los Comechingones.
Alta Gracia is the capital of the department of Santa María and has 42,600 inhabitants ( 2001), with its many suburbs, many of which are geared towards tourism, about 60,000. You are expected to agglomeration of the city of Córdoba, although the building between the two cities has a nearly 20 -kilometer-long gap.
Policy
In the reign of the Peronist governor José Manuel de la Sota (1998 to 2007) came up with the idea to relocate the provincial capital of Cordoba in the course of a decentralization process to Alta Gracia. The proposal, which gained political sensitivity particularly after the election of the strictly oppositional Luis Juez mayor of Córdoba and then following conflict between the city and province, but was never implemented.
Culture and sights
Alta Gracia is known mainly because of the Estancia of the Jesuits, who is on a slope right in the center of the city. She is a former cattle ranch whose owners joined the order and she bequeathed to the Jesuits at their death. In 1767 it was sold again to a private owner. You can see the church, a museum in a former manor house, the mill El Obraje, which now houses a school, and the Tajamar, an artificial lake right next to the Estancia in the city center today.
The Estancia heard since 2000 as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO together with other monuments in and around Cordoba. Also worth seeing is the Che Guevara Museum, which documents his resume and objects from his youth shows. It is housed in the former home of the parents.
Personalities
In Alta Gracia the famous revolutionary Che Guevara spent a considerable period of his childhood and youth. His house is now a Che Guevara museum.
In addition, the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla his last years lived after he had fled from Spain in 1939, in Alta Gracia, where he died in 1946. His house is also a museum.