Information about Almafuerte:

Almafuerte is the gateway to the Calamuchita Valley and welcomes visitors only 15 kilometers from the city of Río Tercero and 100 kilometers from the capital of Cordoba.

Almafuerte River Beach

Located 3 km from the city, on Provincial Route 6 (Córdoba) is the Municipal River of Almafuerte. The clarity of its waters and the shadows of its old groves make it an ideal place to enjoy with the family. It has camping areas, electricity, tables and benches, grills, supply, children's games and a large swimming pool, with daily activities for children and adults. On weekends it has shows.

Beach of the Piedras Moras Lake

On the shore of Lake Piedras Moras there are several beaches (concessioned) that have services of bar, restaurant, public baths, barbecue and sailing boat school (since the use of motorized boats is not allowed).

Over 800 m of fine sandy beach visitors can enjoy 7 hostels intended to offer the tourist gastronomy services, both day and night. The hostels complement their gastronomic menu with shows for all ages. During the day and night visitors enjoy live music, themed dinners, beach games for children, recitals, kayaking and / or sailing rides, sporting events, among other entertainment. The most prominent are:

· Multi-Event Space Purple Point. Intended for multiple uses, it is born from the need to have a room for the organization of social, cultural, musical, artistic, educational and business events. Institutions, companies and private companies have a place of unique characteristics due to the environment and landscape that surround it, both from its gallery and from inside the lounge you can see the lake with black stones as an immutable witness of singular beauty.

· Sailing Club. Created to promote and encourage sailing sports and water sports.

Historic Circuit

It includes the most relevant buildings and places in the town:

· La Ventura Estancia helmet: the construction dates from the beginning of the second decade of the last century. The owner of the same was Dr. Pedro C Molina, founder of the city. The stay has an area of ​​300 hectares. It was divided into several fields, which each had a house and rooms for each of the stalls, namely: visitor's house, driver's house and caregivers' house.

Ten of the hectares near the farm were dedicated to vineyards and its west side was destined to other fruits. These crops were irrigated by a ditch that Molina had built in 1886 and whose water intake existed 10 km. Water above the Third River.

· Los Cerritos: last foothills of the Condor mountain ranges. Its constitution is basaltic stone, so at some point it was exploited to extract stone material destined for construction.

It was that it served as a rest to the troops of the Riojan leader Facundo Quiroga days before the battle of Oncativo in 1830.

· Casa Carranza: old town of La Plata del Cerrillo, by Don Eugenio Carranza. Its primitive construction dates from approximately I885. It worked as a courier post and as one of the first shops of General Branches in the area.

· Canal Molina: its construction took 6 years 1886-1892. Within the infrastructure of its construction there were originally five aqueducts and a tunnel in living rock that was carried out to achieve this purpose.

The original layout of this irrigation canal was devised by the City Founder, Dr. Pedro C. Molina. It is said that he himself made the measurements and precise calculations and had to occupy specialized labor for its construction. In its beginnings, its length was approximately 30 km, as it reached the entrance of Río Tercero. Today it reaches 12 km.

· San Pedro Apostle Church: its construction responds to the desire of the Founder of the City, whose sketches are attributed to him. Eng. Juan Krounfuss and Eduardo del Rosso worked on the construction of it on architectural lines, with strong details of the Romanesque-Italian style. The physical disappearance of Dr. Pedro C. Molina made the construction be delayed.

Unlike other temples in the area, the Church of the Apostle San Pedro presents particular characteristics of a Cathedral. The remains of the Founder of the City rest in the Temple Atrium.

· Camiare Museum: It works in the old Train Station, since the 90s. There exists an interesting amount of archaeological and paleontological pieces, as well as everything that existed at the Railway Station when it was in operation, in full swing of the City.

Information about San Martín:

San Martín (by official name General San Martín) is an Argentine city located within the Province of Mendoza, and is one of the most populous and important cities in the province. The city is located north of the province, about 50 kilometers from Mendoza City, while the province, in turn, is located in the center-west of the country, very close to the capital of the neighboring country, Santiago ( From Chile).

The main economic activity of San Martín is not tourism, but activities related to the vine and its cultivation, and the production of wine, something characteristic of the Argentine region of Cuyo.

As we mentioned earlier, although tourism is not its strongest, recent statistics show that the number of visitors has been increasing in recent years. Some of the most popular tourist attractions in San Martín are: Las Bóvedas Historical Museum, San Martín Square, Mendoza Casino, Las Bóvedas Square and tours through the different vineyards. Adventure tourism is also very frequent, not only in San Martín, but throughout the Cuyo area.

Another type of important tourism in San Martín, is the so-called historical tourism, where you can remember the campaign of General San Martín.

Some towns near San Martín are: Maipú, Mendoza (city), Luján de Cuyo, Tunuyán, San Rafael, Las Catitas, Malargüe, San Luis and San Juan, among many other locations.

San Martín has a bus terminal located in the city center, more specifically on Alem Street at 5570. Some of the most requested companies in the San Martín terminal are: Andesmar, Cata, Chevallier, El Rápido, San Juan Mar of the Silver.

We give you some tips if you plan to travel to San Martín:

- We recommend making Los Caminos del Vino and El Olivo, where in addition to touring you can taste several wines of very good quality

- If you want to make purchases, there is a small shopping center on 25 de Mayo and Godoy Cruz streets

- Points often ignored but totally recommended are La Capilla Abierta and El Oratorio de Alto Salvado

- Adventure type tourism: this city has several attractions and options for those interested in this type of activities such as horseback riding, trekking, etc.