Apart from the usual tourist tours, the region of the central Sierras is addressed more to Argentinian in search of peace and silence.
Less desorientating indeed that the provinces which border the Cordillera, that of Cordoba hides real treasures in the middle of its mountains: the Jesuits estancias of Alta Gracia, Jesus Maria or Santa Catalina, the ex-house of President Roca transformed into luxury estancia , strange villages of Bavarian style rested by the survivors of “Graf Spee”, a scuttled German cruiser in the Rio in December 40…
From Buenos Aires, several access roads are possible. But it is inevitably necessary to cross the despairing “llanura” (plain) of the Pampa for nearly 800 kilometers and 9 hours of road before seeing the first spurs of Sierras.
At the end of the road a landscape polished by time is revealed: soft slopes mountains covered with high yellow grasses giving the impression sometimes to be in the Provence hinterland. however, the length of the sinuous and dusty tracks quickly brings back the traveller to the dimension of great Argentinian spaces.
The central part of the massif is covered or strewn with quebrachos and caroubiers forests. In altitude, the thistle prevails. More in the West the vegetation becomes more scattered. With the approach of the Cordillera, it gives way to the desert (these regions will be the subject of other articles) .
Less desorientating indeed that the provinces which border the Cordillera, that of Cordoba hides real treasures in the middle of its mountains: the Jesuits estancias of Alta Gracia, Jesus Maria or Santa Catalina, the ex-house of President Roca transformed into luxury estancia , strange villages of Bavarian style rested by the survivors of “Graf Spee”, a scuttled German cruiser in the Rio in December 40…
From Buenos Aires, several access roads are possible. But it is inevitably necessary to cross the despairing “llanura” (plain) of the Pampa for nearly 800 kilometers and 9 hours of road before seeing the first spurs of Sierras. 
At the end of the road a landscape polished by time is revealed: soft slopes mountains covered with high yellow grasses giving the impression sometimes to be in the Provence hinterland. however, the length of the sinuous and dusty tracks quickly brings back the traveller to the dimension of great Argentinian spaces. 
The central part of the massif is covered or strewn with quebrachos and caroubiers forests. In altitude, the thistle prevails. More in the West the vegetation becomes more scattered. With the approach of the Cordillera, it gives way to the desert (these regions will be the subject of other articles) .
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