IGUAZÚ Excursión día completo Ruinas de San Ignacio y Minas de Wanda

En esta excursión recorreremos la pintoresca Ruta Nacional número 12, desde Puerto Iguazú hasta las Ruinas de San Ignacio. Pasaremos por las localidades de Libertad (donde veremos el salto Uruguay), Wanda (donde visitaremos establecimientos extractivos de piedras semipreciosas), Esperanza y El Dorado. El paisaje estará compuesto por el contraste entre el cielo muy azul, el rojo de las tierras lateríticas y el verde de la frondosa selva misionera, apreciando durante el recorrido extensas plantaciones de pinos, yerba mate, té, citrus, etc. Al llegar a San Ignacio recorreremos diferentes restos de la cultura jesuítica, visitaremos San Ignacio Mini, la ciudad más importante que crearon estas misiones evangelizadoras, los principales monumentos y restos de su iglesia, para finalizar el paseo a un museo con importantes reliquias de la época. Regreso a Pto. Iguazú.

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From Puerto Iguazú, we will depart by the National Route Nº12 to San Ignacio Ruins (63 Km from Posadas, and 237 Km from the Iguazú falls). In the way, 40 km far from Puerto Iguazú, we will visit Wanda, where we will visit open mines (under an open sky) with semiprecious stones like agates, quartz, crystal rocks, amethyst and topazes. We will pass by Esperanza and El Dorado, and finally arrive to San Ignacio Ruins. Declared by the UNESCO world wide heritage, it is a true historical monument located over 8 hectares, and with 450 years of existence. Entering the mission, we will reconstruct a silent and majestic surrounding, and how the Jesuits and Indian coexisteed. More than 3.950 guaraní Indians settled in these reductions, many of them seeking shelter and protection from slavery supporters. We will walk through the ruins, will sight cottages for the single (far away from the ones destined to families) and the town council. On the other side of the square, forming a single landscape we will find the work shops, the classroom, the mission’s dormitories, the kitchen and the dining room. And last of all, like a symbol of their evangelistic mission (the church) where you still can appreciate the hundred year old graves to understand the significance and historical importance. First of all you will access a walk through an interpretative circuit that will flashback you back to the XVII century with different rooms that tell the history of the conqueror’s arrival. History, legends and nature magically woven to remind us a chapter of our beginnings.

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