Thanks to its incredible landscapes, Salta is one of
the most outstanding places in South America.
That´s why the world is discovering this jewel of northern Argentina. The Media of the different continents is surprised by our province and in its different articles shows why it is called “Salta La Linda”. Salta, so beautiful that you will fall in love.
BBC NEWS
THE BEST 10 CITIES TO LIVE IN
Salta surge este año en la lista de Rough Guide como una ciudad con una vibrante cultura y una arquitectura colonial muy bien preservada. Aquí pueden apreciarse mercados a reventar, prósperos viñedos y peñas, restaurantes que sirven comidas típicas de la región en un ambiente de música y bailes tradicionales. Conocida como “Salta, la Linda”, esta ciudad cuenta con solo 600.000 habitantes y transmite un sentimiento de comunidad de un pueblo pequeño. Tiene un clima moderado durante todo el año, lo cual la hace un lugar ideal para caminar y disfrutar de comidas al aire libre… Visit article >
Salta surge este año en la lista de Rough Guide como una ciudad con una vibrante cultura y una arquitectura colonial muy bien preservada. Aquí pueden apreciarse mercados a reventar, prósperos viñedos y peñas, restaurantes que sirven comidas típicas de la región en un ambiente de música y bailes tradicionales. Conocida como “Salta, la Linda”, esta ciudad cuenta con solo 600.000 habitantes y transmite un sentimiento de comunidad de un pueblo pequeño. Tiene un clima moderado durante todo el año, lo cual la hace un lugar ideal para caminar y disfrutar de comidas al aire libre… Visit article >
CNN
10 TOP DESTINATIONS TO VISIT IN 2015
What if you could visit the Grand Canyon and Napa Valley within the course of one afternoon? That, in essence, is what’s on offer in Salta Province, a dusty patch of Andean Argentina where the country bumps up against Bolivia, Chile and Paraguay. Salta is home to colorful colonial towns, gnarled mountainscapes and the highest altitude wineries in the world. With a $160 million plan underway to turn this largely domestic destination into the eco-tourism capital of Latin America, this is a cat that’s about to be let out of the bag. If you like your wine with a side of adventure — and want to take advantage of Argentina’s exceedingly favorable “blue dollar” exchange rate — Salta will be ready and waiting in 2015. Visit article >
What if you could visit the Grand Canyon and Napa Valley within the course of one afternoon? That, in essence, is what’s on offer in Salta Province, a dusty patch of Andean Argentina where the country bumps up against Bolivia, Chile and Paraguay. Salta is home to colorful colonial towns, gnarled mountainscapes and the highest altitude wineries in the world. With a $160 million plan underway to turn this largely domestic destination into the eco-tourism capital of Latin America, this is a cat that’s about to be let out of the bag. If you like your wine with a side of adventure — and want to take advantage of Argentina’s exceedingly favorable “blue dollar” exchange rate — Salta will be ready and waiting in 2015. Visit article >
CNN
10 ROMANTIC DESTINATIONS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
Cafayate is a scenic tour de force of dramatic pre-Andean peaks, romantic hilltop estancias and seductive street-side cafes. It also doubles as Argentina’s second wine center after Mendoza. Whereas Mendoza is the big bold land of Malbec, Cafayate is a region dominated by the aromatic Torrontes, a white wine grape that grows exceptionally well in the cold and windswept Calchaquies Valley. At this Andean anomaly you can sit with a glass of wine among the vines and stare out at a multicolored mountain-scape of twisted sedimentary strata that looks, at least to tipsy eyes, as if it was crafted by an abstract expressionist. Visit article >
Cafayate is a scenic tour de force of dramatic pre-Andean peaks, romantic hilltop estancias and seductive street-side cafes. It also doubles as Argentina’s second wine center after Mendoza. Whereas Mendoza is the big bold land of Malbec, Cafayate is a region dominated by the aromatic Torrontes, a white wine grape that grows exceptionally well in the cold and windswept Calchaquies Valley. At this Andean anomaly you can sit with a glass of wine among the vines and stare out at a multicolored mountain-scape of twisted sedimentary strata that looks, at least to tipsy eyes, as if it was crafted by an abstract expressionist. Visit article >
THE NEW YORK TIMES
IN ARGENTINA, WINE, ART AND ALTITUDE
Our friends love modern art but don’t really drink; my companion and I are closer to the reverse. So as we researched places where we could travel and all come away happy, Colomé, in northwest Argentina, stood out. It’s a mountain winery with a contemporary art museum and sounded like the perfect two-couple compromise — a little bit high culture, a little bit grand cru. I envisioned a lethargic, tippling road trip like the one in “Sideways.” What we found — after what seemed like a long and needlessly perilous journey through Death Valley-like deserts and narrow one-lane dirt roads that corkscrew up and down towering mountain ranges — was more like Herzog’s “Fitzcarraldo,” a film about an eccentric tycoon fixated on erecting an opera house in the middle of the Amazon… Visit article >
Our friends love modern art but don’t really drink; my companion and I are closer to the reverse. So as we researched places where we could travel and all come away happy, Colomé, in northwest Argentina, stood out. It’s a mountain winery with a contemporary art museum and sounded like the perfect two-couple compromise — a little bit high culture, a little bit grand cru. I envisioned a lethargic, tippling road trip like the one in “Sideways.” What we found — after what seemed like a long and needlessly perilous journey through Death Valley-like deserts and narrow one-lane dirt roads that corkscrew up and down towering mountain ranges — was more like Herzog’s “Fitzcarraldo,” a film about an eccentric tycoon fixated on erecting an opera house in the middle of the Amazon… Visit article >
LE MOND
BALADE AY PAYS DU TORRONTÉS, CÉPAGE D´ALTITUDE
La bodega Colomé, nichée à 2 600 m d’altitude sur les contreforts de la cordillère des Andes, possède les plus hautes vignes du monde. Quelques hectares ont même été plantés à titre expérimental à plus de 3 100 m au pied du Nevado de Cachi. Propriété depuis 2001 du… Visit article >
La bodega Colomé, nichée à 2 600 m d’altitude sur les contreforts de la cordillère des Andes, possède les plus hautes vignes du monde. Quelques hectares ont même été plantés à titre expérimental à plus de 3 100 m au pied du Nevado de Cachi. Propriété depuis 2001 du… Visit article >
TRIP ADVISOR
2015 TRAVELLERS CHOICE
Salta´s Cathedral is unique in it´s arquitecture. Visit article >
Salta´s Cathedral is unique in it´s arquitecture. Visit article >
THE ROUGE GUIDE
TRAIN TO THE CLOUDS
Travelling through the Quebrada del Toro gorge on the Tren a las Nubes, or Train to the Clouds, is an unashamedly touristic experience. Clambering from the station in Salta (it never exceeds 35 km/hr) to the magnificent Meccano-like La Polvorilla viaduct, high in the altiplano, the smart train – with a leather-upholstered interior, shiny wooden fittings, spacious seats, a dining car, a post office and even altitude-sickness remedies – was originally built to service the borax mines in the salt flats of Pocitos and Arizaro, 300km beyond La Polvorilla. The viaduct lies 219km from Salta, and on the way the train crosses 29 bridges and twelve viaducts, threads through 21 tunnels, swoops round two gigantic 360° loops and chugs up two switchbacks. La Polvorilla, seen on many posters and in all the tour operators’ brochures, is 224m long, 64m high and weighs over 1600 tonnes; built in Italy, it was assembled here in 1930… Visit article >
Travelling through the Quebrada del Toro gorge on the Tren a las Nubes, or Train to the Clouds, is an unashamedly touristic experience. Clambering from the station in Salta (it never exceeds 35 km/hr) to the magnificent Meccano-like La Polvorilla viaduct, high in the altiplano, the smart train – with a leather-upholstered interior, shiny wooden fittings, spacious seats, a dining car, a post office and even altitude-sickness remedies – was originally built to service the borax mines in the salt flats of Pocitos and Arizaro, 300km beyond La Polvorilla. The viaduct lies 219km from Salta, and on the way the train crosses 29 bridges and twelve viaducts, threads through 21 tunnels, swoops round two gigantic 360° loops and chugs up two switchbacks. La Polvorilla, seen on many posters and in all the tour operators’ brochures, is 224m long, 64m high and weighs over 1600 tonnes; built in Italy, it was assembled here in 1930… Visit article >
LOVE 2 FLY IBERIA
EN ROUTE IN ARGENTINA´S DRAMATIC NORTH
Even if you’ve been not just to Buenos Aires but also the pampas, Mendoza, Córdoba,Patagonia, and Iguazú Falls, that still leaves much more wonderful stuff to explore inArgentina. I recently took the sunny city of Salta in the far north of the country as the stepping-off point for a 900-kilometre (560-mile) round trip, with only the first 90 minutes’ drive outside the city on paved road. It’s an area that is so little known that in some parts they see almost no visitors all year round. Visit article >
Even if you’ve been not just to Buenos Aires but also the pampas, Mendoza, Córdoba,Patagonia, and Iguazú Falls, that still leaves much more wonderful stuff to explore inArgentina. I recently took the sunny city of Salta in the far north of the country as the stepping-off point for a 900-kilometre (560-mile) round trip, with only the first 90 minutes’ drive outside the city on paved road. It’s an area that is so little known that in some parts they see almost no visitors all year round. Visit article >
CANADA.COM
FIVE REASONS TO GET OFF THE COUCH AND TRAVEL IN 2015
Cafayate, Argentina – located in the northwest province of Salta, this wee dusty village is in the heart of Torrontes country, the newest white wine varietal and wine region in the country. And the best way to get there? A six hour drive through the colourful canyons of the Calchaquie Valley offers stunning views and several short hikes for endless photo-taking opportunities. Visit article >
Cafayate, Argentina – located in the northwest province of Salta, this wee dusty village is in the heart of Torrontes country, the newest white wine varietal and wine region in the country. And the best way to get there? A six hour drive through the colourful canyons of the Calchaquie Valley offers stunning views and several short hikes for endless photo-taking opportunities. Visit article >
TRAVELLERS WORLD – GERMANY
HICK VINO, HIC SALTA
In Argentiniens nördlichster Provinz macht nicht nur die spektakuläre Szenerie trunken, sondern auch eine Weinregion, die manche zur Konkurrenz des Napa Valley aufsteigen sehen
In Argentiniens nördlichster Provinz macht nicht nur die spektakuläre Szenerie trunken, sondern auch eine Weinregion, die manche zur Konkurrenz des Napa Valley aufsteigen sehen
NEIL HENNESY – VASS
SALTA PROVINCE - ARGENTINA
In the north nestling in the Lerma Valley, some two hours flight from Buenos Aires is the province of Salta, with an eponymous old colonial city as its centre that has charm and sophistication. Mapped out to include large civic squares with churches and a neoclassical style cathedral, beautiful original architecture is everywhere. It has started to see a growth in up market boutique hotels and restaurants as well as the perfect starting point for touring. Visit article >
In the north nestling in the Lerma Valley, some two hours flight from Buenos Aires is the province of Salta, with an eponymous old colonial city as its centre that has charm and sophistication. Mapped out to include large civic squares with churches and a neoclassical style cathedral, beautiful original architecture is everywhere. It has started to see a growth in up market boutique hotels and restaurants as well as the perfect starting point for touring. Visit article >