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Gaucho Museum
We bellied up to the bar, complete with antique Across a broad field studded with ancient trees,
glassware and bottles offered by a stuffed dummy we reached a Spanish style building, complete with
bartender. The walls were covered with photos and watchtower that house the museum is named after
mementos of gaucho days gone by. One unusual Argentina’s great novelist and poet, Ricardo Güi-
artifact was a pair of work boots shaped from the raldes. His most well-known work, “Don Segundo
hide of steer legs that we found out later is still Sombra,” was fashioned after a real-life character
worn by modern-day gauchos. who worked on his family’s ranch, La Porteña, and
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