Villa General Belgrano
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Villa General Belgrano is a mountain village in the
The settlement is named after Manuel Belgrano, the Argentine independence hero and designer of the Argentine flag.History
Villa General Belgrano was founded in 1930, by two German speculators attracted by its agricultural potential. The Alpine quality of the village attracted immigrants from
In 1940, after the
The village, characterized by its typically Bavarian style architecture, survives on a steady flow of tourists with an appetite for German delicacies like
Newsstands sold the German language weekly, Argentinisches Tageblatt among other German newspapers, and the church offers Sunday services in German and Spanish. Like many isolated immigrant communities, Villa General Belgrano has respected traditions that fell out of favor in Germany long ago, however even though the mother tongue can still be heard, it is being lost in time.
Flora and fauna
The
Nearby towns
The nearby town of Santa Rosa de Calamuchita, together with Villa General Belgrano are the principal tourist localities of the Valley. Nearby there also are the small settlements of Los Reartes, Villa Ciudad Parque Los Reartes, Solar de los Molinos, Villa Berna, Villa Alpina, Capilla Vieja, Atos Pampa, and La Cumbrecita which are singular tourist attractions.
Education
The area once had a German school, Colegio Aleman "Steck".[3]
Gallery
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Typical wooden signage
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Colonia General Belgrano is the Oktoberfest Capital of Argentina, the largest celebration of its kind.
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Town-Hall building, of the Municipality of Villa General Belgrano
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Street in Villa General Belgrano
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Park in Villa General Belgrano
See also
References
- ^ https://datosestadistica.cba.gov.ar/dataset/eaab30e4-d400-465d-bf53-e9094558f3d2/resource/59d16671-d143-4d52-bac8-be07d8c30ee1/download/desd_cn2010_calamuchita_villa-general-belgrano.pdf
- ^ Per the 2010 Argentine census .
- ^ "Deutscher Bundestag 4. Wahlperiode Drucksache IV/3672" (Archived 2016-03-12 at the Wayback Machine). Bundestag (West Germany). 23 June 1965. Retrieved on 12 March 2016. p. 18/51.