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came the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. The university is the country's oldest and
contains, among other national treasures, part of the Jesuits' Grand Library and the
Museo Histórico de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
Guided visits are the only way to see the inside and are well worth taking. The guides
let you wander through the Colegio and peek into the classrooms while students run
around.
Iglesia de la Compañía
de Jesús
CHURCH
OFFLINE MAP
GOOGLE MAP
(cnr Obispo Trejo & Caseros; 7am-1pm, 5-8pm)
Designed by the Flemish Padre Phil-
ippe Lemaire, this church dates from 1645 but was not completed until 1671, with the
successful execution of Lemaire's plan for a cedar roof in the form of an inverted ship's
hull. Lemaire, unsurprisingly, was once a boat builder. Inside, the church's baroque al-
tarpiece is made from carved Paraguayan cedar from Misiones province.
The Capilla Doméstica, completed in 1644, sits on Caseros, directly behind the
church. Its ornate ceiling was made with cowhide stretched over a skeleton of thick
taguaro cane and painted with pigments composed partially of boiled bones.
Colegio Nacional
de Monserrat
NOTABLE BUILDING
(Obispo Trejo 294)
The Colegio Nacional de Monserrat dates from 1782, though the college
itself was founded in 1687 and transferred after the Jesuit expulsion. Though the interior
cloisters are original, the exterior was considerably modified in 1927 by restoring archi-
tect Jaime Roca, who gave the building its present baroque flare.
Nueva Córdoba & Güemes
Before the northwestern neighborhoods of Chateau Carreras and Cerro de las Rosas lured
the city's elite to their peaceful hillsides, Nueva Córdoba was the neighborhood of the
cordobés
aristocracy. It's now popular with students, which explains the proliferation of
brick high-rise apartment buildings. Still, a stroll past the stately old residences that line
the wide Av H Yrigoyen reveals the area's aristocratic past.
Once a strictly working-class neighborhood, Güemes is now known for the eclectic
antique stores and artisan shops that line the main drag of Belgrano, between Rodríguez
and Laprida. Its weekend
feria artisanal,
one of the country's best, teems with antique
vendors, arts and crafts and a healthy dose of Córdoba's hippies. It's within the same
