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· General information:
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C/ San Martin s/n, |
| 2760, San Antonio de Areco. Buenos Aires. |
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PAX:
2 - 12
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Facilities:
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Accommodation Type:
Rural house.
Location Type:
Countryside.
Rent Type:
Rooms & Full.
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| · General description: |
The rural town day
Visit to the sausage/ham processing plant – including tasting. Empanadas, wine and soft drinks reception.
Guided house and pictures tour.
Pork meat appetizers.
Live crafts work.
Asado/chorizo/other beef cuts lunch, including wine, soft drinks and home made desserts.
Folk singers and dancers show.
Guided tour to the typical places of the town: the “Almacenes de Ramos Generales”, the chapel, the train station, the park and the museum ”The Faces of the Pampa”.
Horseback and cartwagon rides.
Mate history telling with pastelitos and tortas fritas.
Only available for groups of 20 people or larger. |
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The restored estate Bellavista can host up to 11 passengers.
All the ample rooms with high ceilings have a large window on the street, and are linked by the traditional gallery. The windows face the train station, and from there you can normally spot real gauchos riding their horses throughout the village.
Ample kitchen totally eqipaded.
Living rooms where to read, speek wiht friends or just rest.
Optional meal service: breakfast and dinner service or full board service.
A traditional country breakfast: coffee/tea/mate with pastry/croissants, bread, butter and home made marmalades.
Gaucho Lunch/Dinner: traditional “cocina criolla” (creole cuisine), including grilled meats/asado (beef, pork, etc.), local sausage and hams, country cheese, empanadas (filled dough), home made ravioli, and all types of local stews (cazuelas, locros, guisos). All meals are served with country bread, good Mendoza wine and typical desserts.
In the afternoon, you just can not miss the traditional pastelitos and tortas fritas (a local specialty fried dough) and other cakes and pies. |
| · General features: |
· Restaurant
· Rustic furniture
· Board games
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· Private parking
· Garden
· Barbecue
· Wooded areas
· Vegetable garden
· Old hayloft
· Ping pong
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· Laundry
· Cleaning
· Firewood
· Bike allowed
· Breakfast
· Lunch service
· Supper service
· Maps and Pamphlets
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| · Location & Activities: |
In Villa Lía lies the spirit of the small historical towns (“Pequeños Poblados Históricos”), small towns born as a result of the farming boom in the 1900s.
The deployment of railroads, the “modern” transport for the new harvests gave birth to a series of new towns built around a train station, a central square and other landmarks like the school, an old catholic chapel, the municipality office and the cooperative premises.
The Friendly locals gather in the almacenes de ramos generales, a store where they get anything they need, from groceries to an update on the pueblo’s social life.
The tranquility and silence come alive in Villa Lía in the guided town tours, where you will learn the secret local stories hidden in every corner of the village. You could walk in the old almacenes de ramos generales for a drink, tour the town in a bicycle or ride a real gaucho horse.
We also have some interesting learning alternatives: local handicrafts workshops (leather, ropes, silver, textiles), folk dancing, and local cuisine lessons.
Guided tour by a local: visit the train station, the Almacenes de Ramos Generales, the Hernandez park, the Chapel and a traditional sausage & ham manufacturing plant. Additional: visit to Faces of the Pampa museum (museum fees are not included).
Guided tours to San Antonio de Areco: visit the best crafters ateliers, the San Antonio de Padua church, the main park, the old bridge over the Areco river and the impressive "Ricardo Güiraldes" museum (Gaucho culture).
Spanish for foreigners: learn Spanish on a traditional place.
Textile workshops: learn how to ebb and make textiles the traditional way (using the technique of different South American indigenous cultures).
Local Handicraft workshops: silver (plateria) and leather (sogueria).
Folk dances: Enjoy and experience the sense of dancing the traditional rhythms of the pampas. In just 2 hours you will be able to learn the basic moves of the gato, samba, ranchera, chacarera, etc.
Traditional cuisine workshops: learn how to cook the typical gaucho dishes coached by a local expert. Taste your own delicious natural food in the charming atmosphere of our house.
Archery: learn this ancient hunting and war faring technique now become an extreme sport and relaxation activity. All levels and ages.
Photo safari |
· Rambling
· Bike
· Horses
· Guided walks
· Cultural Routes
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· Courses / Workshops
· Fishing
· Potholing
· Bow
· Photography
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| · Rates: |
Our lodging rates include: Home made breakfast, Maid service, sheets and towels, free usage of bicycles, grill, parking.
Double room with shared bathroom: $AR 60
Triple room with shared bathroom: $AR 90
Double room with private bathroom: $AR 100
Triple room with private bathroom: $AR 140
Shared triple room with shared bathroom: $AR 25*
Two bedroom suite with one bathroom (up to 6 people).
For 6 people: $AR 180
For 5 people: $AR 150
Breakfast and dinner.
Per person: $AR 25*
4 - 10 year-old kids: $AR 15*
Children below 4: Free
Full board service. Full board service suplement.
Per person: $AR 60*
4 - 10 year-old kids: $AR 30*
Children below 4: Free
2 days, 1 night: Areco – Villa Lia FULL BOARD
Per person: $AR 200*
4 - 10 year-old kids: $AR 80*
Children below 4: Free
Transport from Buenos Aires included (groups of at least 15 people)
The rural town day prices
Per person: $AR 100.
4 - 10 year-old kids: $AR 80
Children below 4: Free
Only available for groups of 20 people or larger. |
· Owner's comment: |
Back to the simple things, to the time of beautiful sunsets, singing birds and smell of wild flowers. Live a unique experience in Villa Lía, a typical ‘pueblo’, featuring all the attractions of the pampas rural towns: charming people, an old chapel, a lazy train station and its shady central park.
Shop, have a drink or share the gossip at the town’s ‘Almacenes de Ramos Generales’, an ancestor of today’s malls, where the locals gather for shopping (anything from groceries to gifts) and drinking. |
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| | Casa Bellavista | |
| | Living room | |
| | Double room | |
| | Double room | |
| | Kitchen | |
| | Bathroom | |
| | Meal service | |
| | Galery | |
| | Textiles | |
| | Byke | |
| | San Antonio de Areco | |
| | Horseback riding | |
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