Plaza Pringles
(Rivadavia, Junín, San Martín, Pringles)
During the years of the late 19th century, the spot that is today occupied by this square was then called "Potrero de Reyramos". Some decades later it becomes the now historical Parque Pringles Park, also known as Plaza de las Flores or The Square of Flowers. At the beginning, it was all circled with forged iron fences and masonry, provided with beautiful doors in each corner and at the middle of its sides. The pillars that supported this doors where toppled by flowerpots that, according to the stories that had reached this days, were ornate with plants and flowers. The "pimientos" aguaribay "peppers", that bring a distinctive look to the Square, were planted in the year of 1883.
The Square was remodelled in 1994; a raised platform provides an ascending sensation towards the centre, where the monument to the Coronel Juan Pascual Pringles rises.

It was inaugurated in 1917 and made by the sculptor Rafael Radogna. Moreover, the inside paths are illuminated by cast iron ornamental streetlights, very similar to the ones that existed in the City on the days of old, and the fountains on the corners increase, with their foamy jets, the handsome appearance of the whole.

The Cathedral.
On the spot where the Cathedral Church of San Luis rises today, existed during the early 19th century, the house where the "Independencia de las Provincias Unidas" oath took place. It was the property of Don Tomás Lucio Osorio who donned it to serve as the private residence of the Teniente Gobernador Don Vicente Dupuy, who had been appointed by the General San Martín itself.

Its construction got started in the year of 1883 and ended only in 1909. The original planning was made by the engineer Pedro Lussetti, also author of the plans of the Iglesia El Salvador Church in Buenos Aires.

The neo-classical façade shows a triangular frontispiece with bass relieve scenes from the life of the King Saint Louis, supported by Corinthian columns. The Church bears two twin towers and in the back there is one hemi-spherical dome. The principal nave includes lateral chapels and detains beautiful stained glass windows.

Over by the right side nave lie the remains of Coronel Juan Pascual Pringles. There also can be found the tomb from the first Bishop of San Luis, Monseñor Pedro Tibiletti among other religious characters.

Inside the church there are also some notable works in gypsum and applications in marble and granite from San Luis, the (Chapel) Capilla del Santísimo Sacramento, mural paintings, and the frontispiece that commemorates the life and deeds of the patron Saint Louis, King of France.

Declared National Historical Site in 1975. In the crossroads of Rivadavia and Pringles St.

Ex-Estación del Ferrocarril - Former Railway Station.
The railway arrived to San Luis in the year of 1882. The first line was called Ferrocarril Andino, or Andean Railway, and then it became the Ferrocarril del Gran Oeste Argentino or Railway of the Great West of Argentina. On March 15th of 1903 the new building of the station was inaugurated (the former was placed where today stands the Rector office of the Universidad Nacional de San Luis) thus changing its name for Ferrocarril de Buenos Aires al Pacífico.

The building is one of the patrimonies of the Province most cherished by all the "Puntanos". Its well-proportioned design has an air that resembles a French palatial mansion, while the functional areas belong to the utilitarian architecture in iron that the British so profusely employed around the whole world by the times of the Industrial Revolution and on. The slab stone paved platform is roofed by a large gallery supported by eleven steel columns.

Lafinur and Presidente Ilia Ave.

Avenida Presidente Illia Avenue
Remodelled and revaluated in the year of 1993, this handsome diagonal Avenue was built in the late 19th century to connect the new railroad station with the centre of the City. In its beginnings it was called Quintana Ave. To honour the President who, alter a visit to the City, made the arrangements to definitively finish the construction of the building of the station.

With the passing of times its name changed and was then called Eva Perón, whose statue is located at the eastern end of the avenue. It actually bears the name of Dr. Arturo Ilia, former President of Argentina. The statue reminiscing him is located in the proximity of Caseros Street.

Along all of its length, 31 traditional ornamental streetlights are remainders of the old original Republican design, in contrast with the modern buildings and the street walks with white slab stones and black slate (traditional produce of San Luis).

San Martín and Lafinur.

Escuela Centro Educativo N° 1 Lafinur - School
On May 22nd in the year of 1882, the first Educative Commission in the Province was created, with the presence of the "Interventor Educacional" in San Luis, Don José Hernandez, author of the famous and monumental literature work "Martín Fierro". This commission proposed the creation of a permanent fund with the goal of creating new schools. That's how the "Escuela Graduada" was born. In 1888 it received the name of "Lafinur" and on August 16th of 1907 the actual building was inaugurated, with its harmonizing Italian lines. The building has been recently revaluated and declared "Bien de Pertenencia al Patrimonio Provincial".

Located in the crossroads of Rivadavia, Bolívar, Chacabuco y Lavalle.

Ex Colegio Nacional Juan Crisóstomo Lafinur - Former School
This is one of the most important architectonical exponents of the City. It was built in the year of 1869. Its interior, which can only be visited with a previously arranged permit, shows a large patio framed by galleries and classrooms. Worth mentioning are the Hall of Acts, sober and with good acoustics, and the vestibule. During the Presidency of Dr. Marcelo T. de Alvear it was given the name of Juan Crisóstomo Lafinur, a "Puntano that distinguished himself as a poet, musician and journalist. The building was restored in 1994 and declared "Bien de Pertenencia al Patrimonio Provincial".
Located between San Martín and Junín St.

Palacio Municipal - Town Hall
The Banco de la Nación Argentina constructed this building to serve as its subsidiary in San Luis, and from the year of 1954, it was transformed as headquarters of the Intendencia Municipal de la Ciudad de San Luis. The edifice is located, conceptually talking, on a stage of transition between the "eclectic historicist academicism" and the renewing currents from the Art Nouveau.

In the first floor stands out a big hall with its access door set on a portal in the corner, very high, and illuminated by four windows and five huge "ojos de buey" or "ox eyes" that are big round windows.

The façade shows some decorative elements like lion's figureheads sustaining hanging garlands. The front is crowned by a balustrade and two large cups (of the original five) and a central oval crowning, also decorated with garlands of flowers.

The Palacio Municipal is now under a remodelling process to revaluate it. The goal is to maintain its valuable original architectonic characteristics remembering that in the hall still remains the original safe of the bank. In the central patio has recently been built a fountain adorned with granite "rijo dragon", a typical material of San Luis, illuminated with ornamental streetlamps that were made in an old style.

Between San Martín and Belgrano.

Edificio del Concejo Deliberante - Building.
Constructed for the doctor Juan A. Barbeito, prominent citizen that served in different public charges around the middle 19th century, it was the first two-story building to be constructed in the Province. Of Italian line and concept, the old "casona" was remodelled and recycled regarding its original design.

The lamplights located at the front of the "casona" are held in place by several iron corbels that were used in old times to support the lanterns with candles, which constituted the first public illumination in the City. Actually, it hosts the Honorable Concejo Deliberante de la Ciudad de San Luis. It still retains the ancient wooden staircase that takes to the second floor.

Located in Colón 551

Centro Cultural Víctor Saá - Cultural Center.
This is a valuable house from the 18th century that belonged to Dr. Arancibia Rodríguez. Here is nowadays found the Museo Provincial Dora Ochoa de Masramón, who was a notable writer woman of San Luis, and also an investigator of the rock paintings and folkloric arts of the Province. It offers important expositions of art. History, archaeology and palaeontology. In the latter hall the biggest arachnid of the world is shown, a petrified spider 35 centimetres long and which should have measured alive, including its missing extremities, a metre in diameter.
Between Colón and Ayacucho.

Casa de Gobierno y Centro Administrativo - Governmental House and Administrative Center.
This is a building with characteristics related to the French renaissance. Inaugurated in the year of 1911 by the Governor Adolfo "Pampa" Rodríguez Saá. The entrance room is an ample hall with columns from where two wings of a white marble staircase open up. In the higher floor there is a valuable sculpture called "El Puntano", made in cement by the artist Vicente Lucero. The foremost halls exhibit paintings by Carlos Pesce. A beautiful replica of the "Bandera de los Andes" or the "Andean Banner", donated by the Province of Mendoza is also shown there.

This buildings are located in the corner of 9 de Julio with San Martín, Rivadavia and Ayacucho streets. Along with the new building in Ayacucho Street, they occupy a whole block destined to public governmental functions.

Plaza Independencia -Square
Formerly called "Plaza Mayor" or "Plaza de Armas". Several times, incursions of the Indians reached this Square, and, in those violent times, the walls of the Templo de los Dominicos Temple remained as the last shelter to the neighbours. The centre of the plaza is the place where the statue of General José de San Martín riding his horse is positioned. A few metres away from the monument there is a tree "sprout of the San Lorenzo pine", given by the Municipalidad de Rosario in 1923. In the Square, there is to be found a monolith were the "Acta Notarial de Conmemoración y homenaje de los 400 años de la Ciudad de San Luis", with the signatures of all the citizens and to be removed when the City gets to be 500 years old

Convento de Santo Domingo - Convent
The compound consists of the Colonial Convent and the new Church. The Convent is the oldest building in the City. Dating from the early 18th century, it was built to accommodate the Order of the Predicadores de Santo Domingo de Guzmán, the very first to come to the City.

The old Temole of Nuestra Señora del Rosario del Trono was erected between 1836 and 1838, in an imposing Moorish style. The design and materials used in it, repeats those of so many other temples from the Province. Its walls are one metre wide. Its interiors show Italianising lines with columns leaning against the walls. The façade to the San Martín Street had three openings.

Declared Nacional Historical Monument. The edifice accommodated the Archivo Histórico or Historical Archives until November of 1994, after its restoration and revaluation it has become seat of a religious museum and also takes in exposition halls and cultural events.

The new Church is an exotic building of mozarabe design. It was built between the years of 1935 and 1940. The façade presents fine stucco relieves and in its interior includes an altar in mudéjar style and tiles from Sevilla.

Located between 25 de Mayo and San Martín.

La Aguada de Pueyrredón
La Aguada is the ranch that once belonged to Coronel Juan Martín de Pueyrredón, and where he was actually confined in the year of 1812.
Situated over one of the skirts of the Sierras de San Luis, as if embedded into the hollows of the almost vertical rising granite walls. It is a very pleasant location, surrounded by farming fields. It is a viewing point from where the extended western flatlands can be overlooked, meaning the ample steppe covered by thorn bushes and jarillas. In the Ranch are still preserved three gigantic ombú trees that were planted by the Forerunner himself. A National Historical Site since 1941.

El Chorrrillo
This is an area of "quintas" or countryseat of houses, weekend chalets and a residential neighbourhood. There is a nearby dike and a river beach resort. To be found at the East of the City.