Glossary
AAconcagua (Mount): At 6,962 meters, it is the highest mountain in the Americas. It is located within the Provincial Park of the same name and is a great icon of world mountaineering.Alcayota: A typical fruit of the region (similar to a squash) used to make a traditional jam or preserve that is highly valued in local gastronomy.Alejandro Vigil: A world-renowned Mendoza winemaker, recognized for ...
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Salta and Cafayate
Salta & Cafayate wine regionSalta City is the capital of the province and has Argentina´s best-preserved colonial architecture. The narrow streets and charming plazas of the city remain as quiet and gracious as they have existed for centuries.El Tren a las Nubes("The Train to the Clouds") is Salta´s biggest attraction. Another legendary site in a town near Salta City is theCerro de ...
Mendoza Harvest Festival
Mendoza Harvest Festival, Vendimia! In the first week of March this city and region lets its hair down and celebrates the years’ bumper crop of grapes. Festivities begin with a ritual Fruit Blessing, followed by parades and carnival, street theatre and music. People throng to see a new Harvest Queen crowned and needless to say many a bottle is popped. Wine flows and sons are sung.. Check it ...
Uco Valley, Mendoza top region
Uco Valley MendozaIf the young god Baachus painted by Caravaggio were to come alive, he would leave behind the Uffizi Gallery, in Florence, and just as he is, toga clad and with vine leaves encircling his head, he would catch the first flight to Mendoza to get to know the Uco Valley. How could he choose a destination other than the land of Malbec wine, where each day eating and drinking well is ...
Chile wineries
Few places on Earth could compete with the vast diversity of geography that lies within Chile’s long, narrow borders. The Andes Mountains, the Atacama Desert, the Pacific Ocean, the Patagonian Ice Fields, and even Antarctica frame hundreds of lakes, rivers, and valleys dotted with volcanoes, hot springs, geysers, forests, wetlands, and more, all in a strip of land 4.300 km (2.700 mi) ...
Travel to Chile
Santiago de ChileAt the foot of the majestic Andes, we find the valley of Santiago, the most important urban capital and center in Chile. Protected by the hills of low height, cement and gardens, Santiago seems to contrast in the chaos of a huge city and the peacefulness of province. In the friendly flirtation between tradition and modernity, we find the fertile areas like the Forestal And ...
Buenos Aires
Urban transportThe city of Buenos Aires has a transport system that features a subway network that connects the different neighborhoods to the city center and over 180 bus lines that permit the visitor to travel long distances for only ninety cents.SubwaysThe subte (as it is called by porteños) or Metro is the quickest means of transport, the most frequent (every four minutes) and safest of ...
Mendoza Facts
Words may be used to evoke sentiments, feelings and remembrances of a place. But what of a place so visual, so unique, so compelling that words alone can never quite live up to the experience of having visited. We do have a word for this place… Mendoza… Where your emotions are stirred, your spirit is lifted, your senses rise, you soar. You are elevated!
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Argentina wine tours
How it all began...Rape and pillage is thirsty work and sometimes water just won’t do. The Conquistadors missed many things from their homeland, amongst them wine. As soon as they could, they brought vine shoots from the Old World to the New, primarily México and then Peru. The first vines in Mendoza probably came across the mountains from Chie.Wine was also an essential beverage for ...
