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San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina

Bariloche is the main winter tourist city that exist in South America. I ended up visiting now, in 2007, then ten years ago, back in 1997, for reasons of force majeure could not be fitted to the "study tour" to my class at school made this beautiful city. Better late than never.

is very close to the Andes, on the southern shore of lake Nahuel Huapi and is surrounded by lush forests of conifers and native trees, mountains and other smaller lakes. The climate is high mountain, and there are well aware, why they cultivate an appearance of Swiss Alps in much of its recent architecture. Not only is this thing look : Since before its founding in 1902, Europeans had already settled in the area, mainly Germans coming from Chile. These became Mapuche territories formerly owned by immigrants and much Caucasian fellow Southerner who came to the city rising in the early twentieth century, as they say in good Chilean looking paste. The subsequent industrialization of the city, especially since the 1920's, where logging was the dominant, this city became increasingly attractive and thriving.

In Cerro Catedral is the largest ski resort in the region. The tracks are of varying difficulty. The day coincided with a day were changing climate, where it snowed, clouded, there was sun and turned to snow.

to the summit of Cerro Otto is accessed by a cable car offering a privileged view of Bariloche, the lake and the snowy mountains. Once up, the view is unbeatable and the wind is powerful.

The city's civic center was built in the 1930's, like other architectural landmarks that have changed the rustic look that boasted Bariloche, with its wooden buildings in southern Chilean style. To the right is the building of the Municipality with its clock tower.

Bariloche This is the hidden, that is not usually scrutinized by the eyes of the visitors. We came across this landscape as if we went up about eight to ten blocks from the same civic center. There are no slums in this city made up mostly of working middle class people. The low proportion of social housing here are some buildings more or less comparable to our old CORVI, far more worthy than what is seen in Chile. In the picture, correspond to these blocks yellow listed to the right.

The Cathedral of Our Lady of Nahuel Huapi.

Finally, in a candy factory. Bariloche's chocolate has legendary status. It's pretty good but not outstanding. Some traditional families have been devoted to chocolateo and import cocoa from Brazil and Colombia, to develop using traditional sweets. July 2007.