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Carlos' Chalet - Cultural Center
Don Carlos' Chalet (as it is called) is a two-story house,
which has big windows looking at the sea, it was opened
to the community on December 27th , 1995 as a Cultural Center,
and it also houses the Library and the Museum Archive. The
library has many books and publications connected with the
cultural and natural history of the place and its neighborhood,
ecology, marine history, and Silvio Gesell's complete works
on Economy, written in German language. Some of them are
translated into Spanish. The Historical Archive has a lot
of documental material, referring to the life and works
of Carlos Idaho Gesell, and to the history of the city too.
It has got many photos. All these material can be looked
up at the Reading Room.
courses, chats, musical shows, poetry ones, video projections
of operas, concerts, ballet, etc. At the moment, both houses
are located within what is called "Parque Cultural y
Reserva Forestal Pinar del Norte".
The Museum and Municipal Historical Archive (the
first family house) exhibits a big quantity of pictures,
documents and objects connected with Don Carlos Gesell's
life and works, and about his father, Silvio Gesell, too.
There are also several personal objects that belonged to
the Villa's pioneer families.
The Museum has a guide service, and it carries out a very
important educational work connected with schools, investigators,
students, and visitors.
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 The
Forest Reservation
It has a surface of 143.725 m2, and it has been fenced
to protect it from erosion and pillaging.
Villa Gesell's founder began in this place the extraordinary
work on those 1680 hectares of alive dunes in 1931. The
whole area is an important historical heritage, where it
is possible to find out more than 100 varieties of plants
and trees, especially pines, as well as thousands of birds
of at least 30 varieties, stable and migratory ones.
After Don Carlos' death this property was expropriated
by Buenos Aires Province Government (Law 10.420/86) to Emilia
Luther's heirs, and it was given to Villa Gesell's Municipality
with the purpose of making of it a Cultural Park (Provincial
Decree 10.252/ 87).
Let's take care of this unique area
It is recommended:
- Not to drive neither with
cars nor with motorcycles.
- Not to light fire in any sector neither in the neighborhood.
- Not to smoke.
- Not to pick up flora's elements such as pineapples,
fruits, flowers, branches, mushrooms (they will form
humus).
- Not to damage trees or plants.
- Not to hunt, neither to capture or to harass birds.
- Not to throw residuals, neither rubble, neither pruning
remains.
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Gratefulness
Argentina On View thanks to:
- The personnel of the Municipal Museum and Historical
Archive, depending on Villa Gesell's, Municipality Culture
Direction. Its managing director Lic. Carlos Manuel Rodriguez,
because of the material offered to write this note.
- Mrs. Mónica García, guide of the Municipal Historical
Museum and of Villa Gesell's Forest Reservation, who gave
us a lot of material too, and,
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Rosemarie Gesell, Carlos Idaho Gesell's daughter who granted
a personal informative interview to Argentina On View.
We also thanks her for the important contribution given
by her book.
 Recommended
book:
"Carlos Idaho Gesell - Su vida"
by Rosemarie Gesell
third edition - November 2000
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