Córdoba

The long river that stretches throughout Córdoba

Statue in the plaza

A mural showing the famous photo of
all the people who were killed or
disappeared during the last military
dictatorship, which ended in the
1980s.

An old prison--albeit a very elegant one--just for women,
which is now an art museum with a fountain and a tourist
attraction.

An art piece outside, near the fountain showing
a playful dog and his master

A beautful church in the San Martin plaza in Córdoba

A free concert in the plaza, with a hard rock band
singing interpretations of nationalistic
songs

A Monster sandwich, with lettuce, tomato, and lots of beef

A student from Italy (Camilla), Josefina (the AFS volunteer), and me
outside the art museum that used to be the home of a very
rich and extravagant doctor

An exhibit in the part for the bicentennial of Argentina in 2010

A rose garden

On my recent trip to the North of Argentina, my first stop was a big city called Córdoba, which is the capital of the province of the same name. I took a comfy, double decker bus with airline like seats that form beds, almost to a 180 degree angle, and stayed with an AFS volunteer there named Josefina, a university student studying tourism. We walked around the city looking at the many old buildings, and saw a few churches. We went to the plaza to see the churches and old buildings, including a beautiful old building that was once a prison for women only, and there turned out to be a free concert playing, a heavy rock band playing national rock songs, many of which center around the oppression and horrors of the dictatorship in Argentina. At the concert, we were handed coupons for a nearby restaurant, so went there and had monster sandwiches, as they were called. The city is very old and beautiful, and there are statues all over. There is a glorious lake and river flowing with life, and a beautiful rose garden. We went to the park and saw the exhibit for the celebration of the bicentennial in Argentina--whose birthday is celebrated by the May Revolution on May 25th rather than its actual date of Independence (on July 9), although that is celebrated as well. There were 200 rings with different years on them and short summaries of what happened that year. I enjoyed Córdoba very much, but only spent about a day and a half there before I got back on a bus, bound for Resistencia, even further North.