Carmen de Patagones invites tourists to discover its history on their own. A trip to the past to understand the present and the future.
In order to do this one should watch and listen carefully. Local people are a great source of information about historic and other worthwhile places to visit.
Texts and photographs disclose those glorious, long gone days and help tourists to understand the heroism of the men and women who settled in such vast, hostile land, which became a characteristic of the process newly born Argentina was then going through.
A mere three streets from the Museum is another site worth visiting, the Carmen de Patagones Church.
It is worthwhile the effort. Different objects which were taken from the Brazilian Empire in the battle of March 7th, 1828 are on display.
The Battle of Carmen de Patagones took place nearby between militia of the ‘Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata’ and troops of the Brazilian Imperial Navy during what is known as the War of Brazil.
Different buildings among which are big, colonial houses, the famous fort and the caves where the first settlers took refuge, can be enjoyed from the outstanding panoramic viewpoint of the church.
As a result of discovering the streets of 'Carmen', as the locals fondly refer to it, we come to understand how a fort standing alone in the middle of the territory became the beautiful, historic city of today.
All visitors need to do is dare travel its time.