CITY TOUR
Your host picks you up from your hotel at 9.30am to tour
Mendoza
City.
We will visit the main plazas;
Independencia (which plays host to a
Modern
Art Museum and a theatre),
Plaza España and
Plaza San Martín.
Next we visit
Las Heras Street Museum and the historical indoor
Central Food Market, before heading to
Parque General San Martín.
At the top end of the park we ascend
Cerro de
la Glora (Glory Hill) crowned by a magnificent statue of San Martin and his Liberation Army, together with “Liberty” breaking the chains of bondage. Erected on top of and around the sides of a natural rock plinth
It really is one of the worlds
most powerful and complex bronze sculptures, executed by the well known Uruguayan sculptor Ferrari, with help from four Italian sculptors nearly one hundred years ago. On the way up the hill
we will see the almost Greek looking amphitheatre (25,000 capacity) the permanent home of the annual and hugely popular Crowning of “The Queen” (see Wine Harvest Festival). Towards the bottom end of the park we will come to the
Parks
Lake, around which we can take a walk and stop for a coffee. Back into the transport to see the
Civic Centre, where many of the Provinces essential government offices are located.
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