In winter, the coast is full of different colors, and despite the cold weather you can enjoy the parks, the forests, the cities, and different kinds of sport, cultural and artistic activities, especially during July and August. Mar del Plata, Villa Gesell and San Clemente del Tuyú, offer, for the winter holidays, special trips for the family and their children with entertainments, games, parks, and festivals.

Particularmente en invierno, la costa bonaerense se tiñe de otros colores, y a pesar del frío, también se puede disfrutar del sol, de los parques, los bosques, las ciudades y de todas las actividades deportivas, artísticas y culturales que especialmente tienen lugar durante los meses de julio y agosto.

A propósito de las vacaciones de invierno y del resto de la estación, Mar del Plata, Villa Gesell y San Clemente del Tuyú proponen salidas especiales para la familia y los más chicos, con entretenimientos, juegos, parques y fiestas.

Mar del Plata
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If the sun doesn't give enough warm, or the wind blows a lot, the best you can do is going for a drive. You can visit the marine wolves fauna reservation, located in a small coastal beach near the south jetty. It is only dedicated to males, known as wolves of a single hair. Another important place to visit is the Port Reservation. It has 45 hectares full of trees that act as a true lung in an urban area.

A different option is to visit the "Mercado de Pulgas" It is placed in Rocha Square. There you can find out very curious objects. The famous Mar del Plata Aquarium ( http://www.mdpaquarium.com.ar), is a different place, worthy to be visited by the whole family. It has impressive aquatic shows with marine wolves and dolphins.

In Mar del Plata, you can also enjoy: cavalcades, carriages walks, walks along mountain paths, and parapente too. There are also some beautiful reservations and beaches such as Laguna de los Padres, La Brava and Mar Chiquita. There you can practice sport fishing, sailing, windsurfing, rowing, trekking, mountain bike, etc.

Balcarce is a city placed to 60 Km from Mar del Plata, it has the famous "Museo del Automovilismo Juan Manuel Fangio"
( http://www.telefax.com.ar/balcarce/turismo/fangio.html ), the racing circuit that has the five times world champion's name, and the tourist circuit "El Triunfo" Hill.

Another proposal will be the one offered by Egidio Feruglio Museum
( http://www.cpatagonia.com/mef/index.html ), from Trelew, Chubut - installed in España Square there you can walk along dinosaurs duplicates that inhabited the Patagonia, including also the visit the Lorenzo Scaglia Natural Sciences Municipal Museum, located in the same place, it has a lot of important paleontological pieces found out in Mar del Plata.

Utopia City. It has been recently inaugurated. It is a small Mar del Plata City, placed in the middle of Camet Park. It is designed with the streets, walks and buildings alike the city ones, but it has games and other attractive proposals backed by physical education teachers.

The Punta Mogotes Aquarium is getting ready its thematic holidays for children, as the invitation to share training classes for seals, marine wolves, and dolphins through a 3 days course. Or to live the adventure of diving in an artificial sea, even with reefs and caverns, with more than 5.000 different kinds of fishes. "Papa me das un peso?" (Culture in trainers), it will be another interesting proposal for children, the Ente Municipal de Cultura will take them along the museums including different activities and entertainments.

The VII "Feria de las colectividades" will be another important event in July. It will be placed in the city center, on one side of San Martín Square, in front of the Cathedral. It will have 1.600 m2 covered surface and a theater for 150 people. There, people will be able to taste sandwiches, and typical food. They will also listen to the folkore of the different countries, such as Armenian, Belgium, Bosnia- Herzegovina, Chile, Croatia, Eslovenia, Spain, France, Greece, Holland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Ukraine, former USSR, Yugoslavia and other invited countries.

Mar del Plata Cultural Calendar. The shows billboard is getting full of names of many important actors, actresses, singers and musicians such as Norma Aleandro, Nati Mistral, China Zorrilla, Lito Vitale, Juan Carlos Baglietto, Lorenzo Quinteros and Susana Rinaldi, among others. The calendar shows important golf tournaments, car races in Mar del Plata city's racing circuit, Minors Argentinean Squash Championship, Winter Surf National Tournament, Third National Festival of Theater, XII Encounter of Marplatense Theater, the presentation of the "Coro de Niños Cantores de Mónaco and the Praga's Black Theater. The VI International Festival of Marionettes and Scenic Animation, the Symphonic Orchestra's presentation and the Choir of the Argentinean Theater from la Plata city and the "Ciclo de Cine de Oro 50 años de la cinemateca Argentina", the last ones at the Auditorium Theater, and a basketball festival with the "Globe Trotters" at the Islas Malvinas Polideportivo Stadium.

Villa Gesell
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Villa Gesell offers to the tourist a lot of winter activities. You can enjoy its forests and the first zoo-thematic park, that combines fantasy, nature and ecology along 6 hectares. During the cloudy days you can carry out a walk along the city, its beaches, spas, its fishing jetty, the coastal avenue, the ravine, the nº3 avenue, the pedestrian street, the handmade fair and the amphitheater.

You can also enjoy a guided visit along the Main Historical Museum, Carlos Idaho Gesell's Chalet, the Municipal Greenhouse, the Apícola Association, the Ceramic workshop and the Ecological Demonstrative Space. And, if in spite of the cold weather you love walking along the beaches you can enjoy 30 Km of sands and dunes until reaching the historical Querandí Lighthouse, you can also carry out cavalcades along virgin places such as as the northern area dunes where you can go by double traction vehicles and cuatricycles too.

During July and August, Villa Gesell's calendar is well nurtured. From July 20th to 23rd Santiago Apostle's Feast take place, on July 23rd to celebrate the Friend's day, it is the Genius Race. On July 28th and 29th the Chocolate and Alfajor Choco-Gesell Festival is celebrated. On August 7th, San Cayetano Feast is celebrated and on August 19th and 20th, the winterfest.

Besides, August is the "Municipal Month of Children and their Rights" there is a 48 hours marathon, and other activities such as golf tournaments, and greyhounds races during long weekends.

San Clemente del Tuyú
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It is placed to about 3 hours from Buenos Aires Capital City. It is an ideal place to enjoy the winter vacations. Cosme Argerich Park is a true reservation where you can find several trees and flowers species. You can visit the Immigrant's walk, a place devoted to San Clemente's pioneers.

You can also go to the "Tapera de Lopez", that is located on the coast of San Clemente Ría. It is an ideal place to practice nautical sports such as rowing, motonautical, yachting and windsurf. Its jetty has 120 meters length and it is ideal for fishing, you can visit the Port to taste typical food of the area made of fishes and shellfishes. San Antonio Lighthouse is located on Punta Rasa. From its 63 meters height you can appreciate the Samborombon's Bay landscape.

For the children, "Mundo Marino" is the best option ( http://www.mundomarino.com.ar ), It has unique and incomparable shows with marine wolves, the orcs Belén and Shamenk, penguins and dolphins. There are, besides, didactic shows, safaris along the swamps, train trips, and the biggest "Oceanario" from South America.