Qualla: San Carlos Castle https://qualla.com/san-carlos-castle 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/d/q/v/san-carlos-castle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: San Carlos Castle https://qualla.com/san-carlos-castle San Carlos Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/san-carlos-castle/ Photo credit Pedro Luis Figueroa, CC BY-SA 4.0. One night at dinner, a hissing came from beneath the table. One of the blonde Fuchs Valon girls glanced down and said, without alarm, that it was only the snakes nesting in a hole under the floorboards. The household kept an iguana, a mongoose, a fox, a monkey, and bees, and the snakes had simply moved in among them. A French pilot stranded in Concordia witnessed the scene, and Argentina has spent the better part of a century insisting that the strange, tender little book he later wrote was conceived right here, in the gardens of a roofless castle on the Uruguay River.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/q/v/san-carlos-castle-wp/6dqv-san-carlos-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full San Carlos Castle: A Magnate's Folly https://qualla.com/san-carlos-castle/ Photo credit Pedro Luis Figueroa, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1888, the French magnate Éduard Demanchy raised a mansion of imported European stone on the riverbank near Concordia and called it San Carlos. The Demanchys lived in it only three years, from 1888 to 1891, before moving on. Another French household, the Fuchs Valon family, too...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/q/v/san-carlos-castle-wp/6dqv-san-carlos-castle-a-magnates-folly.mp3 0:06 2 full San Carlos Castle: The Aviator's Forced Landing https://qualla.com/san-carlos-castle/ Photo credit Pedro Luis Figueroa, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1929, a Latécoère 25 mail plane developed engine trouble over the river plains. Its pilot was flying for the Aéropostale, threading the long, lonely routes that stitched Buenos Aires to Asunción del Paraguay, and he brought the failing aircraft down in the open ground beside t...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/q/v/san-carlos-castle-wp/6dqv-san-carlos-castle-the-aviators-forced-landing.mp3 0:06 3 full San Carlos Castle: Where the Prince Was Born https://qualla.com/san-carlos-castle/ Photo credit Pedro Luis Figueroa, CC BY-SA 4.0. The legend is simple and beloved: that the two wild Fuchs Valon daughters, Edda and Susana, and their menagerie planted the seeds of "The Little Prince." There is no documentary proof, and most scholars trace the story's true origin to the desert crash. But the connection refuses...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/q/v/san-carlos-castle-wp/6dqv-san-carlos-castle-where-the-prince-was-born.mp3 0:06 4 full San Carlos Castle: The Wild Sisters and Their Menagerie https://qualla.com/san-carlos-castle/ Photo credit Pedro Luis Figueroa, CC BY-SA 4.0. The household Saint-Exupéry stumbled into has become the heart of the legend. The Fuchs Valon daughters, Edda and Susana, were remembered as untamed blonde girls who roamed the grounds barefoot among a private zoo. Beyond the snakes under the dining floor, the family kept dogs an...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/q/v/san-carlos-castle-wp/6dqv-san-carlos-castle-the-wild-sisters-and-their-menagerie.mp3 0:06 5 full San Carlos Castle: Rescued Because People Wanted It https://qualla.com/san-carlos-castle/ Photo credit Pedro Luis Figueroa, CC BY-SA 4.0. By the 1990s the castle was a scenic wreck, and the idea of saving it began circulating in agreement with the architect Magadán. Real work started in 2008, funded by the municipality of Concordia, the province of Entre Ríos, and the special fund tied to the nearby Salto Grande da...

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