The "Potrerillo" of Larreta (Alta Gracia)

Everywhere else in the Sierras, the grass is yellow, burned ; sometimes even gray, of the dust raised by the cars while passing on the track. Here, it is green: of this english green that only assiduous work of an “jardineros” army can preserve.The “Potrerillo” is located in the middle of the landscape which surrounds it like an oasis in the middle of the desert. Surrounded by a reputed golf, planted on a rocky spur, it dominates convolutions of the "arroyo" which runs gently its waters.The effect is seizing and almost paradoxical in this universe of peeled hills, few kilometres from great poverty, the last “ cuadras” which precede the arrival in the “Potrerillo” being marked today out modest masonries.On ex lands of the estancia Jesuit of Alta Gracia, rises the house wanted by Enrique de Larreta (1875-1961). Of colonial inspiration, it locks up collections of objects, of furnitures, or paintings come from Upper Peru.
Ambassador of Argentina in France during the 1st world war, Larreta built a house to perhaps alleviate his memories marked by the horrors of the front he had had the occasion to visit.In this place favourable to the reflexion he wrote his major work: “La Gloria de Don Ramiro”.

Hosteria Potrerillo de Larreta
www.potrerillodelarreta.com
(00 54) 35 4742-5987