If history had to revivir in some Argentine corner, if it had to choose a site to tell to world its but intimate secrets, surely it would do it through the work of the Company of Jesus who arrived at Argentina in century XVII and began his work of evangelización, arduous work that almost 400 years later, indeed in 2000, was declared Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity by UNESCO.
It was in 1612 when the jesuitas stepped on Argentine earth and they went to the province of Cordoba. A year later they founded the university and other works that had like only objectives the education of different offices from the natives and the academic formation of the Cordovan young people.
At the present time each one of its works is conserved as a great treasure and every day thousands of tourists enter the quiet buildings to breathe the loaded atmosphere of histories, experiences, effort and all the weight of the culture that knew to share and to spread.
The Jesuítica Apple of the city of Cordoba lodges to the Convicto, the Church of the Company, and the Maximum School, known like the House Trejo, building that belongs to the National University of Cordoba and that to count itself by thousands the students which today they fill his classrooms, belong single to the Faculty of Rights and the Faculty of languages (where you can learn advanced spanish).
The arduous work put by the natives who learned ebanistería, masonry, orfebrería and blacksmith shop next to the missionaries that guided them, can be felt in each wall, each vault and each corner where the details were taken care of to the maximum and where today no thing has been touched nor modified. The experts assure that work like the one of the jesuitas in Cordoba does not exist, because the native art and the European baroque style were used of perfect way to cause this admirable conjunction.
The arduous work put by the natives who learned ebanistería, masonry, orfebrería and blacksmith shop next to the missionaries that guided them, can be felt in each wall, each vault and each corner where the details were taken care of to the maximum and where today nothing has been touched nor modified. The experts assure that work like the one of the jesuitas in Cordoba does not exist, because the native art and the European baroque style were used of perfect way to cause this admirable conjunction.
In 1767 in King Carlos III of Spain it at your service forced to retire of the country and the jesuitas went away leaving this legacy of which the whole country is proud. Nothing decayed from the goodbye of those untiring evangelizadores and everything, absolutely everything seems to float in the middle of a deafening silence, because this is the characteristic of the sites where the weight of the years is the essential factor of its relevance.
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