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Argentina: Mountains - Alta Gracia
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etween the Grandes Mountain ranges and the Chicas Mountain ranges, in the province of Córdoba, is the Valley of Paravachasca, crossed by the Anizacate river.
The city of High Grace is recostada on these Cordovan Chicas Mountain ranges, in the region that the Indians comechingones called Paravachasca.
The name of Alta Gracia comes from the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Alta Gracia that exists in Algarrovillas de Alconetar (Spain).
Its history goes back to year 1588, when the territories of the zone were Merced by thanks to Juan Nieto. Later, in century XVII, it constituted one of the great ones to hunt jesuíticas. Córdoba a was then capital of the Jesuítica Province of Paraguay.
That Province included/understood the present territories of Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia and Argentina, conforming a social, economic and cultural network that turned to Córdoba in one of the more important centers of development of South America.
The origin of Alta Gracia as city is very particular, since it grew like so from a Jesuítica Stay.
The origin of the Stay of Alta Gracia is in the donation conducted by Don Alonso Nieto de Herrera of its personal stay at the moment for entering to the Company of Jesus in 1643. Taking advantage of this rural establishment, the jesuitas develop new plan of constructions that served the looked for productive aims. Mainly for the creation of a manufacture destined to the textile production, although agriculture and the cattle ranch, in special the commerce of mules, were the bases of their economy.
The nucleus of the old stay, has been immersed in the city. The church presides over the central seat of the city, and to its flank the residence is today museum of the greater architectonic and historical interest. In one of the lateral streets, the old manufacture is host of a school.
The stay of Alta Gracia was one of the more prosperous rural centers of the Cordovan campaign, had as objective the support of the Máximo School (Jesuita), that soon would be transformed into the first university of the Argentine territory and maintained a fluid economic interchange with the others to hunt jesuíticas.
In 1810 the Stay was acquired by Santiago de Liniers that lived few months in the house.
In 1820 José Manuel Solares it bought the property to the family of Liniers, being the last owner.
By testamentary will it decided the defining of lands for the conformation of a villa, today city of Alta Gracia, being the residence in the center of the urban nucleus to which it gave origin. During one hundred years the Lozada, heirs of Solares were the proprietors of the constructions adjacent jesuíticas and earth. In 1969 the Argentina Nation expropió to its owners the residence, turning it Museum, inaugurated officially in 1977. Its importance is fundamentally in its architectonic value, that preserves faithful to the original structure.
This house museum has been acclimated according to the life ways that had the Cordovans and serranos in centuries XVII, XVIII and XIX and its patrimony are made up of objects of great meaning, evocative of the daily life and the forms of work in the old stay.
The 2 of December of 2000 like part of Córdobes the Jesuítico system, Alta Gracia, the others to hunt and the Apple of the Company: Church, Domestic Chapel, Call to account of the Parents, Rectorado of the U.N.C. and Monserrat School, was declared by UNESCO Patrimony of the Humanity.  |
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