They plan a route by "Chasing Che"

Thelma I For Mercedes Ezquiaga

"For the ways of Che" is the name of a cultural circuit that will be launched by mid-year and aims to link relevant areas in the life of Ernesto Guevara, as the Museum of the Che of Alta Gracia, The Pastera, Che museum in San Martin de los Andes, the museum of Che in Rosario, where he spent his early childhood in Caraguatay, Misiones.

The idea is to capture a scenic and cultural spaces that Argentina relevant in the life of the revolutionary leader and that will also help to publicize a comprehensive overview of his life and thought: the birthplace, the place of his early childhood , parts of the country where he was on his trip with Alberto Granado.

The project has the support of the Secretariat of Tourism of the Nation, outlining these days is through meetings held by the directors of each institution, told Telam Dario Fuentes, national coordinator of the museum The Pastera, place preserves intact the space where Che slept for a week in one of his trips to Latin America.

The initiative was originally driven by the Secretariat of Tourism of the city of Alta Gracia, head of the Museum of the Che in that locality, which joined the Pastera, while both museums and conducted promotional seminars and exchange respectively, while awaiting the circuit incorporating the Che museum in Rosario, and the Caraguatay.

The truth is that all places, and running, each year attracts hundreds of tourists (The Pastera opened last June), and what remains now is to unite those points on a tourist route that attracts visitors to go deeper more on the legendary life of the revolutionary leader killed in the Bolivian highlands.

Guevara lived 17 years in Cordoba, from 1930 to early 1947, especially during childhood and adolescence, and his family had several homes in Alta Gracia, but the main one was Villa Nydia, where now the Museo Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the most prestigious in the country. Opened on July 14, 2001, the museum pays tribute to the land they grew up "Che," his memory and his life through objects divided into ten rooms.

In July 2006, the place was visited by Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez. In 1950, Che made his first trip alone on a motor bike and traveled twelve provinces of northwestern Argentina, over 4,500 kilometers, while the following year with his friend Alberto Granado began a trip from Cordova to South America on a bike that was called "The Mighty II".

They passed through Buenos Aires, the Atlantic coast, Bahia Blanca, Choele Choel, Piedra del Aguila, San Martin de los Andes and Bariloche. They crossed the mountains to the south of Chile and from there went to Santiago where they had to leave the bike.

By boat, on foot and finger met several cities of Chile, Bolivia and Peru. Traveled to the San Pablo leper colony on the banks of the Amazon, and then, on the raft "Mambo-Tango" sailed downriver to Leticia, Colombian border town.

From there they went to Bogota, Caracas, Venezuela, where Granado and Guevara was working back to Buenos Aires to complete his studies in medicine.

In that course, was when two friends went through San Martin de los Andes, a place which Che dedicated a special chapter in his travel notes, and where they slept in a barn fodder Lanin National Park, and today, declared heritage historic town, gives life to the museum "The Pastera".

This museum offers a tour of his life through dynamic and informative panels, with a quick biography, accompanied by rare photographs (provided by the Guevara family) as well as thematic panels that provide the vision of Che on workers, youth, new conception of man, Fidel Castro, the family.

"The idea is to be a center for dissemination of comprehensive thought of Che-Fuentes said, there is a vision of the guerrilla Che bounded only, and we begin to show in all its facets: the child Che, Che young to value that part of life that is not known. And each of these places are complemented by the other and provide information of his life. "

The Museum of the Che Guevara in Rosario, just two blocks from the house the family lived and where cradled Guevara "Ernesto", meets 1400 items, including documents, Cuban coins, photographs, toys of his childhood, and is located in the square Cooperation, meters Guevara mural by artist Ricardo Carpani.

Moreover, Guevara's family owned a large plantation in Misiones mate, so the Argentine doctor spent part of his childhood in the town of Caraguatay, where today a museum the house that belonged to his father, Ernesto Guevara Lynch.

Undoubtedly, the emblematic figure of the revolutionary leader still attracts every year thousands of tourists from the world eager to learn more about his life, who will soon be able to go this route special national places where Che left his mark.