Long Weekend in Cordoba - Day Trip to Alta Gracia - The Lourdes Sanctuary

While in Alta Gracia there is another place worth walking to. Its The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes which stands at the other side of the city looking from the main square.

But still in walking distance it´s a big field with a stone church and some religious amenities that offers a place of pece to relax in.

 

Long Weekend in Cordoba - Day Trip to Alta Gracia - Museo Nacional Estancia Jesuitica

The Museo Estancia Jesuitica is also located at the main square and is part of the same complex as the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

It can be visited in less than an hour and comprises the main house of the Estancia, where the Jesuit religious lived. It has a nice garden with fruit trees which were blooming when I was there.

This Site is at the heart of the foundation of the city of Alta Gracia, named after an Invocation of the Virgin Mary to whom the person that received the lands was devoted to.

Long Weekend in Cordoba - Day Trip to Alta Gracia - Santuario de la Merced

Under pain of stating the obvious I will mention the Santuario of Our Lady of Mount Carmel that is smack in front of the main square in Alta gracia and which you will inevitably see.

It is a cute small church attached to the former Jesuit "Estancia" and now Museum. 

Built more than 400 years ago in a Baroque style and richly ornamented with gold leaf it also holds the remains of the city´s founder Don Manuel Solares.

Long Weekend in Cordoba - Day Trip to Alta Gracia

Alta Gracia is one of those small cities very close to the City of Cordoba  that is worth visiting for the day, being only 40 clicks away yo can be there in an hour and spend the day there.

It is the site of one of the Jesuit "Estancias" that are spread around Cordoba, and it has several museums to visit including the house where the "Che Guevara" lived when he was a kid.