| HIGHLIGHTS |
| Famous For: |
A Magic Castle in the Argentine Pampas - All This and Polo Too |
| Capacity: |
80 |
| Open: |
All year |
| Altitude: |
Sea level |
| Location: |
Distance from Buenos Aires: 114 km |
| Reservations: |
(02227) 424404 / 494132 |
| Rates: |
$200
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| Minimum Stay: |
1 day |
| Deposit: |
50% for reserve |
| Payment: |
cash, amex, visa & master |
| Closest Airports: |
Ezeiza International Airport, Jorge Newberry Domestic |
| Transportation: |
Car; Autopista :Ezeiza - Canuelas - Lobos. |
| Travel Agents: |
NO |
| LODGING |
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| La Candelaria has 21 bedrooms. In the castle itself are 10 luxurious guest rooms, while nearby, set amongst the 240 species of rare and indigenous trees of the castle’s 100-hectare park, designed by the ubiquitous French landscape architect Charles Thays, are separate guest houses. “Colonial House” has 8 suites with fireplaces; the “Bungalows” 2 each one have rooms with fireplaces; “The Mill” holds one small apartment for double occupancy. The castle has a large traditional dining room with a Murano crystal chandelier and French antique furniture, a room for games centered with pool and billiard tables, and a swimming pool; and gym. Satellite TV, Video, Internet. Traditional dining room. The grounds also hold a chapel of Norman architecture, with a vaulted ceiling of dark wood. |
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| RECREATION |
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Recreation activities include 2 floodlit clay tennis courts, floodlit volleyball court, soccer, horse riding, bicycles, pool and billiard rooms, table tennis, 18 hole golf course 5’ away (green fee not included), campfires, Chapel, etc.
Polo ponies, massages and aircraft rides are charged separately.
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| FOR CHILDREN |
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| FOOD/LIQUOR |
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| The Estancia serves a cuisine both traditional and international, and maintains a cellar of local vintages, international wines, liquors, and cordials. |
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| BUSINESS/MEETINGS |
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| The convention rooms are equipped with Screen, Wi-Fi Internet, Rotafolio, TV, VHS and DVD. Also includes coffee breaks both AM and PM. |
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| REGION/CUSTOMS |
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| When traveling in the Dordogne Valley in France, the sudden apparition of a huge Romanesque castle - Rocamador, say - is a stirring sight, especially at night when its pale stone hugeness glows with mysterious incandescence. But to find that same vision in the middle of the Argentine Pampas? Yet - that is what the Estancia La Candelaria is - a three-story, 10,000 square foot Romanesque stone castle designed by French architect Alberto Favre, with a crenellated tower, turrets and arches and and dormers and cupolas, chock-full of French antiques, Persian rugs, Murano crystal chandeliers and Carrara marble fireplaces . A coffered ceiling looms over the billiard room Huge and pale and glowing with uncanny light - La Candelaria is a downright miracle. |
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| HISTORY/HOSTS |
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| Back in 1894, when construction on La Candelaria began, , its owners may have carried the features of “La Belle Époque” a bit farther than was necessary. The estancia was founded by one Orestes Pineiro, a doctor and pharmacist, and named for his wife, Candelaria del Marmol. It was their son-in-law, a freebooter-type ostensibly rich as Croesus, who sent for the spoils of Europe to build this Taj Mahal of the Pampas, the magical La Candelaria. The estancia’s baronial doors were opened to paying guests in 1994. |
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