Un comercio clásico de Chacras. Arboledas cubren las calles del pueblo. Bicicleteada del domingo.

Like the Districts of La Puntilla, Vistalba and Las Compuertas, Chacras de Coria has many big week-end mansions, which currently are turned into residencial houses. This place is also known for its numerous night-clubs, located in the outskirts of the locality. This is where young people, but also less young and tourists love going out on Thursday Friday and Saturday nights!

Political, artists, and scientists personalities were born or chose Chacras de Coria as their place of abode to live or to work. Among them, we found Dr. Benito Marianetti, Dr. Edmundo Correas, Dr. Carlos Levy, Dr. Francisco Correas, Galina Tolmacheva, a mentor of the theater in Mendoza, Víctor Delhez, prestigious engraver among others. Nowadays, we can find too the Delhez’s familly (Cristian and Mario, sons of the famous painter Victor Delhez), Marita Lavoisier (painter), Marcello Mortarotti (painter and photograph), Agustina Argerich (silversmith), Cecilia Carreras (painter) etc. The importance of this artists reaches such extend that, since a couple of years, several art exhibitions are inaugurated to invite art-lovers to enjoy argentine master-pieces.

“Gerónimo Espejo”’s square is at the cross-road of this locality. It brings social life to the whole community. Formerly chosen to celebrate kermeses in favor of the local church, it nowadays gathers artists, craftsmen and antique-dealers who exhibit their treasures every Sunday.

As time goes by and mendocineans or foreigners settle down, Chacras has been printed with eclectic material and architectural styles. You may find old mansions made of adobe walls in a spanish colonial style, like houses sleeping in time, wineries, or of the most cutting-edge style houses in private neighborhoods.

The neocolonial architecture of the Parish Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro stands out in this village landscape. Its icons, placed on the greater altar, are carved in stone. The ceilings are made out of poplar’s wood which is a traditional element of the mendocinean construction.