Medieval summer getaway: a magical village just 45 minutes from the City

What is and where is Campanopolis located?

The village is made up of a group of buildings United by alleys cobbled, tickets, nooks and crannies Y Secret places. Responds to different styles of european medieval united to produce a eclectic own style. It is located in the Buenos Aires town of Gonzalez Catanthe most unusual recycling city of the Argentina and its surroundings, just 45 minutes from the City of Buenos Aires.

The visitor will be able to tour the Twelve Little Houses of the Forestrun into sources, lakesquebracho bridges for tour the islands, docksa Dutch windmilla colonial chapel and one locomotive with wagons. Besides of Museum of the Bars either ferroteca and the buildings where the materials used for their construction are the subject, for example, the Stone housethe Museum of Wood or Sticksthe House of Slag.

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Campanopolis

history of the place

On the official website they published that “the village with medieval spirit was dreamed, projected and built by Don Antonio Campanawho without having architecture studies realizes his dream, in a 200-hectare property with plains, jungle forests, rivers, streams and lakes“.

“The story tells that he does almost 40 years this dream began in a property acquired in 1976 where before old tosqueras were exploited, whose product was used for the construction of the bases of the slopes of the Ezeiza International Airport and the highway Richeri. Later, the place was expropriated by the CEAMSE (Ecological Belt Metropolitan Area State Society) that for more than five years I use it as a sanitary landfill, leaving sequelae of environmental pollution“, they continue.

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Campanopolis

In addition, they assured that “Don Antonio enters a long lawsuit to recover the property. At the same time, he is afflicted with various problems of Health and, faced with this, she decides to turn her life around significantly, boosting her desire to live together with her desire to make her dream come true today with this legacy of beauty”.

“Discovering yourself as creator and designer with a broad criteria of recycling Y creativitymakes use of leftovers from demolitions to build a new world over chaos hitherto reigning, giving birth to this magical villagealso restoring the ecological balance“, they concluded.

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Campanopolis

Campanopolis: Guided Tours

The place offers a guided tour of an hour and a half approximately with the aim of explain the history, construction, care for ecology and the environment of the village along almost 45 years. Includes visits inside buildings Y museums, as long as this is authorized by the staff of the property. The tour is from low difficulty and is adapted to all public.

Schedules

• Morning shift: Entry 9:00 a.m. | Closing 1:00 p.m.
• Late shift: Entry 1:00 p.m. | Closing 5:00 p.m.

Prices visites

• General admission: $2,000 (Adults and Minors).
• Children under 2 years: free.
• Retirees: $2,000 (weekdays contingent, groups of at least 25 people $1,400).
• With certificate of disability: free (companion: $2,000).

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Traveling Mat

Campanopolis: How to get there?

Alternative 1

• From General Paz take the Brigadier Juan Manuel de Rosas Avenue (continuation of Juan Bautista Alberdi) towards the Province.
• Set the pedometer to zero and continue along it (United Provinces) passing through the former San Justo roundabout, (now a bridge) towards Cañuelas, along route 3 to Calle Bariloche at km 31,200. (FROM GENERAL PAZ IT IS EXACTLY 16.5KM).
• Reference: From above the bridge over Route 21 and Route 3, you have to pass 4 aerial reinforced concrete pedestrian bridges and go to the right towards the collector.
• Continue along the collector (pass a 5th bridge on the left) and a few meters turn left, crossing National Route n3. (traffic lights) turn left at the collector and the first street on the right is Bariloche (fully paved).
• Continue along it to the end (12 blocks) where the entrance to the property is located on the left hand side.

Alternative 2

• Up Highway (AU1) (205) Routes (3-5-7) towards Ezeiza. Pass Gral. Peace.
• Continue towards Ezeiza. Pass the Central Market. Look for the exit sign to Ciudad Evita Gendarmerie School and exit to the right on it.
• Reference: shortly before the exit you can see the Mormon Church on the right.
• Continue along the collector passing by the El Mangrullo Restaurant, turning right at the corner, where there is a Shell service station. Go forward, pass a small roundabout and continue straight.
• Reference: at the roundabout there are usually blue buses on line 86. Keep moving forward for approximately 1.5 km, go over a bridge and when you reach the roundabout turn left, taking route 21.
• Continue until you pass some YPF distribution tanks.
• Continue moving past the Gregorio de Laferrere Station.
• After passing a YPF service station, and a few meters away you will notice a notorious fork. You must turn left and go under the bridge, after passing the second bridge take an immediate right and always follow the turn to the right; climb the bridge.
• Reference: From above the bridge over Route 21 and Route 3, you have to pass 4 aerial reinforced concrete pedestrian bridges and go to the right towards the collector.
• Continue along the collector (pass a 5th bridge on the left) and a few meters turn left, crossing National Route n3. (traffic lights) turn left at the collector and the first street on the right is Bariloche (fully paved).
• Continue along it to the end (12 blocks) where the entrance to the property is located on the left hand side.