The Sanmartinian passport and a tour of the Liberating Gesta and the Crossing of the Andes

The Camino de Santiago in Europe or, closer, Route 40 that runs through Argentina and the Inca road, in Peru, are routes that summon travelers every year.

And Group of Argentine provinces opted for a new tour of historical sites To attract national and international tourism: The roads of Freedom and the Sanmartinian National Passport to encourage travelers to tour the history of General José de San Martín and the crossing of the Andes Army Cordillera.

The full tour includes 83 historical sites in 12 provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. And to complete it it is necessary to acquire the Sanmartinian passport is available on the official website pasaportenacionalsanmartiniano.tur.ar

This tourist document – which arose from an idea of ​​the entity whose tourism – must be sealed in each jurisdiction to prove that the sites included included in the tour were visited. Complete the 83 places implies undertaking At least six tripsfrom the Argentine north, to the wet pampa and whose.

The road unites From the birthplace of José de San Martínin Yapeyú, the creation of the liberating army, the crossing of the Andes until its eternal rest in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Buenos Aires.

“Through the passport, visitors can document their tours, learn about the history of independence, and develop an emotional and empathetic bond with the figure of San Martín. This project also encourages the transmission of values ​​such as freedom, patriotism and altruism, contributing to strengthen Argentine identity,” describes the tourist proposal.

The Sanmartinian passport was presented last March, in the city of Corrientes, in which the Secretary of Tourism, Environment and Sports, Daniel Scioli participated; and those responsible for tourism from all Argentine provinces.

The 83 sites to visit and seal, are distributed in 12 Jurisdictions: Province of Buenos Aires (1), Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (7), Córdoba (3), Corrientes (4), La Rioja (1), Mendoza (28), Salta (1), San Juan (14), San Luis (16), Santa Fe (2), Santiago del Estero (2) and Tucumán (4).

The Liberating Gesta of San Martín has been a matter of study in the world: “He created an army, crossed Lo Andes, gave battle in Chile, embarked on that sea that has little of Pacific to finally free Lima, his great goal. For those roads loaded with dreams, he plotted it and executed it, a plan with determination and without leaving anything freed to improvisation,” describes Claudio Morales Gorles Gorles Sanmartiniano.

He Sanmartinian passport proposes a time trip. “The educational impact and the promotion of national identity are pillars of this project that reinforce the legacy of our founders of a free and independent nation that also collaborated with the freedom of half a continent,” summarized the advisors of the Fabiana Mastrangelo, Liliana Girini and Juan Marcelo Calabria project.

“When we started talking about this at a meeting of the tourist entity Cuyo, in December 2023, we defined that we were going prioritize historical places“, explains Marcelo Reynoso, director of Tourism Development and Innovation of the Mendoza Tourism Entity.

The important characters and sites of the liberating campaign were selected with the Historians advice and the collaboration of the Sanmartiniano National Institute.

The passport can be purchased online (Enter here), it costs 4,500 pesos, and can withdraw in points enabled in the participating provinces.

There are offices and points that seal the passport in each of the sites. If there is no sealed in the place, for being a road or a remote site, the tourist must be taken A selfie in the placego to the assigned seal point and present the photo to get the seal.

An example is the Cannota stay, in Villavicencio, where to certify that trip it is necessary to pass through the Las Heras Tourism Office, in Uspallata or some closer in the city of Mendoza.

Los First travelers to complete the passport receive a prize (trips financed by the tourist entity of Cuyo to promote internal tourism).

To compete there is time until February 25, 2027.

The order in which the sealed spaces appear on the passport pages is chronological, so it begins in Yapeyú and ends in the mausoleum of General San Martín in the Cathedral of Buenos Aires.

Templete Natal Casa del General San Martín, Historical Museum of Yapeyú and Historical Museum of San Martín.

Casa Rosada Museum and Plaza de Mayo, Retiro and Plaza San Martín area, Miter Museum and Basilica Nuestra Señora de la Merced, and Cemetery of La Recoleta.

Sanmartinian National Institute, National Historical Museum and Cabildo and Cathedral Museum of Buenos Aires.

Casa de los Governors and Historical Solar Campo de las Carreras, Aguada de Pueyrredón, Posta la Dupuyana and Posta Desaguadero, and Museo Dora Ochoa de Masramón.

Church and house of the Altillo de San José del Morro, posts El Portezuelo, former council and jail, house of the commander of militias José Becerra, and convent of Santo Domingo.

Monument to the Puntano and Chacras people of Osorio, Cathedral of San Luis, Casa de los Adaro, sepulcher of Lieutenant Juan Pedernera, Chañaral de las Ánimas and Posta La Cabral.

Pyramid of Chacabuco, Ruinas San José de Lules, Sanmartiniano Museum of Tucumán, and Historical House of Independence Museum.

Sanmartinian Paseo, Posta Arroyo Seco, Convent of San Carlos and Campo de la Gloria.

Juan Bautista Cabral National Historical Museum.

Stay San Pedro Viejo, farm and historical walnut of Saldán, and posts the Nogales.

Historical Tree of Managasta, and Casona de Pedro Carol.

Posta del Retamo, Posta de Rodeo del Medio, Museum of the Foundational Area (includes the Plaza Pedro del Castillo sites, Matrix Church, Convent of Santa Monica and Temple of San Agustín, and the ruins of the Temple of San Francisco).

Casa de San Martín Museum (includes the Master Sites of the Army of the Andes, Our Lady of the Merced and Old Solar Church of the Company of Mary), Plaza Sarmiento, Convent of Santo Domingo in Soriano (includes the Church of Charity).

Sepulcher of Tomás Godoy Cruz, Basilica of San Francisco, Fuerte de San Carlos, Historical Campo El Plumerillo, Historical Chapel El Plumerillo, owned by the tropero Sosa, house of the vaults and passage of the iron.

Canota Estancia, vaults of Uspallata, Puente de Picheuta, Potrerillos Combat (the Casuchas del Rey site, in Los Puquios), Paso de Uspallata, Memorial of the Flag of the Army of the Andes, General Archive of the Province and Museum of the Past Cuyano.

San Martín General Historical Museum (includes the Paseo La Alameda site), Hacienda del Libertador, Paso del Portillo, El Manzano Historical, Chacra La Tebaida and Olivo Historical, and Historical Museum Los Vaults.

Historical cell of San Martín, sepulcher of Fray Santa María de Oro and Plaza Mayor, and post of the Royal Camino.

Pocito Matrix Channel (includes the fifth barracks and Camino Real or Avenida de las Carretas), Angaco Matrix, Laprid and Ex-Cabold House, and Cabot column.

Sarmiento House and Museum, Citizen Flag, Talavera Flag and Patricias San Juan, and a commemorative site contribution to the Andes Army.

Las Tapias, Posta de Talasto (includes the Gualilán site), Paso de Guana (includes the Achango Chapel, Estancia Pismante