Museums

The plaza has two museums; one of contemporary art and another archeological museum. The archeological museum is known for three mummies that were found in the Andes in 1999. We went and saw the mummies and it´s really crazy; it´s three Inca children that were so perfectly preserved by the cold that they look like they´re still living.

Salta La Linda! (Argentina)

February 18th 2010
I finally made it to Salta and have more than two pesos in my pocket! I got into a hostel and ran into a girl that is in my program that I have happened to run into about three times this summer- the border of Peru and Bolivia, La Paz and now Salta. Small world! Salta is beautiful, I now understand why they call it ¨Salta La Linda¨. The plaza is a huge grassy space full of fountains and statue ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more

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