San Luis city
The city of San Luis was founded in 1594, but it wasn't until the late 19th century that it really started to grow, with a flood of European immigration. There was further develop- ment in the 1980s when tax incentives encouraged industry to the area. The result is a modern city with a few colonial buildings, but little to attract visitors. However, it is a friendly place with decent accommodation and food, and is a good starting point for exploring the Sierras de San Luis and the Parque Nacional Sierra de las Quijadas. See www.sanluisturismo.com.ar, and www.lasquijadas.com, for more information.
Sights
The centre of the city is the attractive, leafy Plaza Pringles, filled with beautiful jacarandas and palm trees and thronging with young crowds after sunset. It's worth popping into the cathedral, with its slender towers and sumptuous interior, to see replicas of famous Murillo paintings and an extraordinary pesebre electrónico - a personal vision of the birth of Christ, with moving figures to the accompaniment of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Scottish pipes; kitsch and marvellous. Northwest of the plaza, there's a magnificent, decaying former railway station. The large tourist office www.sanluisturistico.com.ar, has little information.
For hotels and bars, stroll along Avenida Illia, which becomes very lively at night. There's a tiny Museo de Historia Natural, which traces the evolution of San Luis, including the fossil of an alarming giant spider and a dinosaur footprint. The main commercial heart of the city is on Rivadavia, and three blocks away there's the quieter Plaza Independencia, with its extraordinary Moorish Dominican temple, with a Moorish façade. You can see rugs being woven at the Centro Artesanal San Martín de Porres.
Sights
The centre of the city is the attractive, leafy Plaza Pringles, filled with beautiful jacarandas and palm trees and thronging with young crowds after sunset. It's worth popping into the cathedral, with its slender towers and sumptuous interior, to see replicas of famous Murillo paintings and an extraordinary pesebre electrónico - a personal vision of the birth of Christ, with moving figures to the accompaniment of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Scottish pipes; kitsch and marvellous. Northwest of the plaza, there's a magnificent, decaying former railway station. The large tourist office www.sanluisturistico.com.ar, has little information.
For hotels and bars, stroll along Avenida Illia, which becomes very lively at night. There's a tiny Museo de Historia Natural, which traces the evolution of San Luis, including the fossil of an alarming giant spider and a dinosaur footprint. The main commercial heart of the city is on Rivadavia, and three blocks away there's the quieter Plaza Independencia, with its extraordinary Moorish Dominican temple, with a Moorish façade. You can see rugs being woven at the Centro Artesanal San Martín de Porres.
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