Museo Histórico de la Universidad

Very fine Baroque colonial building from the 18th century with a museum and a beautiful cloister. Nowadays part of the university's faculty for law studies. The cloister is open to the public and tours of the building are available.

This museum has a large and eclectic collection. It has an impressive collection of fossils including the fossil of the greatest pre-historic spider of the world but also has a zoology section a mineralogy section and considerable space devoted to Charles Darwin and the voyage of The Beagle including an original edition of the Origin of the Species given to the National Academy of Sciences by the author.

The probably biggest attraction of the Manzana de los Jesuitas quarters, this is the oldest standing church of Argentina, built in 1671.

School of the Jesuits, in a Baroque building.

Chapel in the "Manzana de los Jesuitas". Not permanently open, it is necessary to ask for permission to visit it. The most beautiful of them all.

This building is a convent for Carmelite nuns first and a museum second thus can only be visited by guided tour. It was built as a private house and then given to the church as a residence for male novitiates and is now a convent and orphanage. The emphasis of the museum is the life of the building over the centuries. The small crypt and refectory are interesting and then you can head downstairs to try your hand at printing on what used to be the only printing press in Cordoba given to the Jesuits by special dispensation. A visit to this museum is mandatory for the children of the Jesuit school in Cordoba.