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Back in the car, we made a quick trip to the outskirts
of the village and Criollo Park & Ricardo Güiraldes
Museum. The 222-acre park is an Argentinian
treasure, named a National Historical Monument
in 1999. Every year the park is the setting for the
Festival of Tradition, the oldest gaucho festival in
Argentina where thousands enjoy traditional music,
dance and equestrian contests and performances
by modern-day gauchos.
Our first stop was the 200-year-old white-washed
Blanqueada. The adobe brick building with an old
pulperia (grocery shop and bar) and a little chapel
stands at the entrance of the park, next to the
famous Camino Real or Royal Road that connected
Spanish viceroyalties to the north with Buenos Aires.

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