27 July 2013

argentina: jesus maria

one of the reasons i wanted to visit cordoba was its proximity to several other unesco sights...the town of jesus maria is one of those...there is a jesuit mission worth seeing...
we found the small bus station in cordoba from which we caught a bus to jesus maria...the estancia we wanted to see is a unesco listed sight, but i don't think jesus maria gets very many visitors...if i hadn't read about the mission in the guidebook, i don't think we would've visited this town...
we got off the bus, everything was quiet...we stopped for lunch at a bus station cafe, both of us had pizza...
i was really glad i was able to use the maps function on my phone, otherwise we never would've found the estancia/mission...there were no signs indicating where we should go!!
we were only allowed to take photos in the church of the mission...the church was simple, but i liked it...it was pretty chilly, i bet it never really gets that hot, even in the middle of summer...i was actually pretty cold by the time we left the estancia, as the whole thing is stone...
one of the display rooms had more paintings of angels garbed in colonial clothing carrying weapons...similar to the paintings we'd seen in the church in uquia...
not much else to report about jesus maria...

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