Start your 9-hour journey with a comfortable transfer from your hotel in Buenos Aires to San Antonio de Areco, passing through the vast pampas while your guide shares insights into the local landscape.

First, stop at a silversmith’s studio to see how mates and buckles are still crafted by hand. Then, treat yourself to local chocolates at a nearby shop, highlighting Areco’s artisanal charm.

This historic church on Segundo Sombra Street traces its roots to Don José Ruiz de Arellano’s first oratory. The present structure was founded in 1869 and holds a time capsule under its central door.

At the corner of Don Segundo Sombra and Zapiola streets, a peaked house rises from its peeling walls. This is the grocery & drinks store where peasants and country people who came to town to provide themselves and do errands to the cereal house, the store, the doctor, the bank, used to meet. Don Segundo Ramírez, the gaucho who was later a character in the novel by Ricardo Güiraldes, used to stop here. Nowadays, it continues to be a meeting place and has a long history of typical people from the countryside.

At the estancia, take in the rural scenery with optional horseback rides. Enjoy appetizers and drinks before a delicious barbecue, followed by a cultural gaucho show.