Only 50 km (31 miles) north from Cordoba City you find Candonga, the gateway to the Small Sierras landscape and to the history of the region. A land marked with the traces of the Jesuit Missions and sowed with picturesque chapels and farms. A land that offers the possibility to leave the noise behind and meet again the sounds of history and nature.

In old Castilian, Candonga means Old Mule or Heavy Mule, referring to the animals that in the 1700s crossed the mountains loaded with goods, following the King’s Highway to the Upper Peru.

The Chapel was built in 1730 and was devoted to our Lady of the Holy Rosary.

Candogna is at the very core of the path that keeps the architectural testimonies of the Jesuit Enterprise.

In 1941 Candonga’s Chapel was declared Historic National Monument by decree N°90732 and, in December 2000, UNESCO named the Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba a World Heritage Site.