Qualla: General San Martín Park https://qualla.com/general-san-martin-park en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/p/h/general-san-martin-park-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: General San Martín Park https://qualla.com/general-san-martin-park General San Martín Park: Introduction https://qualla.com/general-san-martin-park/ Photo credit MacAllenBrothers, CC BY-SA 2.0. After the earthquake came the epidemics. Diphtheria, cholera, and measles moved through the rubble of Mendoza, and the men rebuilding the city decided that what this dry, broken place needed most was shade. The answer they settled on was audacious for a town clawing back from catastrophe: a park larger than many European royal gardens, planted in a desert that supports almost no trees on its own. Today the iron gates open onto 393 hectares of green, and the condor mounted above them looks out over a forest that exists entirely because people willed it into being.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/p/h/general-san-martin-park-wp/66ph-general-san-mart-n-park-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full General San Martín Park: A Park Born of Crisis https://qualla.com/general-san-martin-park/ Photo credit Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0. The gates carry a date that explains everything: the project was signed into law on December 6, 1896, decades after the disaster that prompted it. Mendoza's 1861 earthquake had killed thousands and left the survivors exposed to disease, and the city's Minister of Works, Emilio Ci...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/p/h/general-san-martin-park-wp/66ph-general-san-mart-n-park-a-park-born-of-crisis.mp3 0:06 2 full General San Martín Park: The Frenchman Who Planted a Forest https://qualla.com/general-san-martin-park/ Photo credit MacAllenBrothers, CC BY-SA 2.0. The man hired to design it was Carlos Thays, a French-born landscape architect who had already reshaped green Argentina from Buenos Aires outward. Thays mixed English and French nineteenth-century styles, threading wide avenues and curving paths through ground that had to be irri...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/p/h/general-san-martin-park-wp/66ph-general-san-mart-n-park-the-frenchman-who-planted-a-forest.mp3 0:06 3 full General San Martín Park: A City Inside the Trees https://qualla.com/general-san-martin-park/ Photo credit Micah MacAllen, CC BY-SA 2.0. Wander the grounds and you stop thinking of it as a park at all. Thirty-four sculptures punctuate the roads. The grand main gates, installed in 1909, are crowned with a condor and carry the coat of arms of the city, an iron threshold between the dust of Mendoza and the green beyo...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/p/h/general-san-martin-park-wp/66ph-general-san-mart-n-park-a-city-inside-the-trees.mp3 0:06 4 full General San Martín Park: Where the Harvest Is Crowned https://qualla.com/general-san-martin-park/ Photo credit Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0. Every year the park becomes the heart of Mendoza's defining celebration. Since 1963 the Frank Romero Day Amphitheater has hosted the Fiesta Nacional de la Vendimia, the national grape harvest festival — an event that dates to 1936 but found its permanent home here when the great ...

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