The North West
El Bordo de las Lanzas
 Set in the Siancas Valley, thirty seven miles east of the city of Salta, El Bordo de las Lanzas is one of the most historic fincas of the province. This is a beautiful colonial estate built in 1790 and is decorated with elaborate religious paintings and woodcarvings dating back to the 17th century. This 2200 acre estate is a working ranch with sugar-cane and tobacco plantations and where cattle and jump horses are raised. This is the ideal location to tour the Humahuaca gorge and the enchanting countryside of colorful mountains and Indian villages...(more details)
El Molino de Cachi Adentro
 The house is an authentic colonial construction built around a 17th century grain mill, located beneath the dining-room (still in use, grinding wheat and corn for the region's farmers). The house has been recently renovated with taste and style, preserving the profound Saltena tradition. Activities include horseback riding and hiking in the heavenly Calchaqui Valleys, visiting archaeological ruins, sight-seeing local Indian villages and visiting museums and churches...(more details)
Hostal del Molinos
 The Hostal was for almost three hundred years the main house of the vast Molinos estate of twenty-seven-thousand-square-miles. Today, the house has been restored with the same materials used in the original construction - adobe walls, stone foundations, woven-reed ceilings, and beams of cardon wood (a common cactus of the Cordillera) - and is run by a descendant of the founders. Activities include visiting old churches and villages, watching artisans at work, shopping for unique pieces of wool and horseback excursions...(more details)
Hosteria Los Quilmes
 Hosteria Los Quilmes is an amazing hotel embedded in the very ruins of Los Quilmes, the southernmost Inca settlement, in a magical valley with endless skies and desserts. Masterfully conceived by its owner, the famous Indian artist Hector Cruz, it blends in with the landscape dotted with candelabra cacti and ancestral pircas. Here you can explore the ruins with a guide or on your own. There is also a museum where the splendid funerary urns of this millenary culture are exhibited and a swimming pool embedded in the ruins with a captivating view of the surrounding mountains and dessert...(more details)
La Montana
 La Montana is probably the most seignorial finca in Salta. Built in a traditional neo-Colonial style, the house and gardens are imposing, elegantly appointed with lordly antiques and the wood work of the house is truly a masterpiece. La Montana's beautiful park is a peaceful retreat for a relaxing stroll and the surrounding rolling countryside invites for a vigorous hike or horseback ride with open views. Interesting activities at La Montana include sight-seeing and visiting the historic city of Salta....(more details)
Los Los
 Los-Los is a lovely finca built atop a pretty hill with a soothing view of the evergreen Lerma Valley. Hosted by a charming couple from one of Salta's most traditional families, you will experience traditional Salta cuisine, excellent barbecues and local delights. Activities comprise horseback riding up the mountains as well as walking in the countryside, watching the tobacco plantation process and local sight-seeing...(more details)
San Antonio
 San Antonio is a comfortable finca located in the green and fertile Lerma Valley. Once a Jesuit settlement, today this is a working cattle and agricultural ranch. The original house dates from 1680 and has been the Cornejo family's hands for over a century and a half. Activities at San Antonio include a horseback expedition in the mountains, watching the tobacco plantation work, golf at a nearby club and enjoying the swimming-pool...(more details)
San Pedro de Yacochuva
 San Pedro de Yacochuva is a pretty finca located in the Cafayate Valley in the south of the Province of Salta, in the heart of the wine country where the fruity Torrontes wine is made. The finca is nestled on a hill with a vast view of the Cafayate Valley where endless vineyards stretch out in the distance. The house is charming, with an inner courtyard and a nice swimming-pool. Activities vary from hiking, swimming, horseback riding, visiting wineries, vineyards, museums and the Inca ruins of Los Quilmes...(more details)
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