Our bus from Mendoza to Cordoba only took 9 hours, so we got in, settled down in the morning, and started exploring the city on foot in the afternoon. Cordoba is a pretty interesting city. There is probably as much (I’m sure the Cordobans would argue that there’s more) art and culture here as there is in Buenos Aires, which is known for its projection of the Argentine (and porteno) perspective. The city is very colonial Europe in its layout and architecture, with plazas, rotundas, and a few pedestrian-only streets and markets, one or two of which we saw.
We also visited a museum – of “Bellas Artes” (beautiful arts). The architecture was pretty interesting:
One afternoon, we met up with a local – Stef’s college friend’s husband’s sister (really, I’m serious here). Sofi showed us a few of the different museums as well as some of the better restaurants (Cordoba is argentina’s largest university city, so most of the food is pretty greasy).
See our Cordoba photos here:
We spent one of our afternoons in a town called La Cumbre, which is about 3 hours outside of Cordoba. While we were there, we stopped at a lavendar farm. It was open to anyone, and had some really interesting older machinery, and some cool landscape views:
We also used Cordoba as a base for a few longer excursions (more on each of these in later posts:
- We spent a day in Alta Gracia, a former center of the Jesuit missions
- We flew to Iguazu for a couple of days to see the great waterfalls
- We left Argentina from Cordoba in order to get to Cuzco, Peru.
