Junin Historic Site is a building complex that has inside a colonial museum, an oil factory, a mill, a historic wine cellar and a sanctuary. The mill is a historical monument, created in 1818 and honors the stage of St. Martin in the region. It was created by the General to provide flour to the area, with the donated lands granted for grinding wheat, and worked through cascading water channel Acequia de la Patria, also built by San Martin to irrigate the vineyards.
The historic Solar was conditioned restored so that tourists can visit all facilities, galleries, a central courtyard and wine tasting room, and even try and take local handicrafts. The architecture is typically colonial, showing a cane ceilings and walls of mud and adobe and brick. It also has windows and balconies with iron railings, carpentry and typically Creole unpainted floors and walls.
In the cellar usual make tread cabernet grapes and queens, for which you need to install huge vats where departmental queens tread the grapes to start preparing the patero wine. An important part of the winemaking tradition of the province of Mendoza, and the Feast of the Harvest.
Solar household museum has photographs, books, documents and objects of the old cellar. There is also a place for entertaining special guests, and the old mill objects created by San Martin. The Solar is located in the Villa Orfila, 8 km of neighborhood.
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