San Martin’s home in Yapeyú
In the Litoral region, walk around the place where a key patriot in Argentine history was born.
Geographic location: Province of Corrientes, Argentine Litoral region.
How to get there: From the city of Corrientes, via Ruta Nacional 12 and Ruta Nacional 123 (400 km).
Climate: Subtropical.
Recommended length of stay: 1 day.
Over two centuries ago, this place witnessed the birth of one of the liberators of Argentina, Chile, and Peru: General José de San Martín. Come to a house that is a part of history. Watch its original walls, awaiting you inside a shrine built to protect them. Did you know that the soldiers guarding this house belong to the Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers, precisely founded by San Martín?
Across from the shrine, walk around a square where the fig tree under which the patriot played as a child still stands. Do you know the town where this experience is waiting for you? Walk around Yapeyú and discover its charm: its streets and its lamplights, its main square and its colonial-style houses. Discover the history of this town founded on the ruins of an ancient Jesuit reduction in 1860. Live it all in the province of Corrientes.