Plazoleta Héroes de Malvinas — Attraction in El Calafate

The square commemorates the "heroes of the Malvinas": the 650 fallen soldiers and all who fought in the 1982 Malvinas war against the United Kingdom (the island are known as Falkland in the English speaking world), a wound that never healed for the Argentinians. I am not sure what the statue of a female warrior standing in front of a map of the islands with a spear and a book on her hand symbolizes, and it would have been nice had there been a little more...

While we didn’t stop through the museum, we thoroughly enjoyed the statue of the female warrior. Being of Norwegian descent, we appreciated the similarities to that of the legendary...

Ausländern steht kein Urteil über die historischen Maßstäbe und Hintergründe zu. Der Platz bzw. die Gedenkstätte für die Opfer des Krieges um die Islas Malvinas an sich wirkt sehr gelungen. Nicht pompös, unaufdringlich, dezent dem Andenken der...