Estancia La Paz
The Estancia La Paz is an estancia with a manor house in the municipality of Ascochinga in the province of Cordoba (Argentina) .
The estate with a mansion in the style of historicism was built in 1830 by Thomas Funes, 1859, he gave the property in relation to the San José de Flores Pact called La Paz . Fune's daughters Lisa and Clara married Miguel Juárez Celman and Julio Argentino Roca in 1872 , who later both became presidents of Argentina. Roca had the important landscape architect Carlos Thays design spacious parks of 100 hectares for the property . Until the end of the 1930s it was one of the meeting places for the Argentine political elite; Roca received there, among others, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento , Nicolás Avellaneda , Carcano, Carlos Pellegrini and José Figueroa Alcorta and directed the Partido Autonomista Nacional . The property was in near disrepair before its renovation in the late 1990s.
Today the estancia is run as a luxury hotel.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Robert Ferrero: Estancia La Paz. LaVoc.com.ar
- ↑ Dilks: Footprint Argentina, page 172. This Book (English)
- ↑ Un recorrido por la Estancia La Paz (Spanish) ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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Coordinates: 30 ° 57 ′ 38 ″ S , 64 ° 13 ′ 56.5 ″ W.