Museo del Che Guevara — Attraction in Municipio de Alta Gracia

It's about an hour from Cordoba to Alta Gracia bus station. The coffee and Patatas dulce were very tasty. It's a 16 min walk to the house where he grew up. The museum is arranged in chronological order. Each room has a bief explanation in English and Spanish, along with furniture, clothes, pictures and his famous bike. 1st room displays his room when he was a child, then when he grew up with asthma, and despite that he played rugby and was active, to his 2 trips to S. America, where he noted the social difference among people, to his studies where he became a doctor, then how he obtain the name Ché, to his volunteering in overthrowing the government with Castro in Cuba, to his meetings with world leaders, assuming various roles in the government, and his second family and kids, to the failed attempt to export the revolution to Congo, and, finally to his capture and...

Excelente; Ernesto Che Guevara's hectic life has always been interesting and in the house where his family lived during his childhood in Alta Gracia we discovered another aspect of his life: his teenage worries.

We started a guided walk from the downtown to the neighborhood called Carlos Pellegrini, passing by Sierras Hotel and several other houses where Che lived. Belén, our guide, gave us family details that became known over the years.

We arrived in Villa Nydia, a simple house with a typical gallery from Córdoba and wide rooms which the Guevara family inhabited for many years. There, the fresh and dry air of Córdoba allowed young Ernesto to get better from his...

Being in the house where Che grew up was very moving but I felt the museum component could have been better. It's quite expensive, (by Argentine standards), $200 for foreigners yet nothing inside is translated not even the film & the gift shop had no English language translated books. I get that we are in a Spanish speaking country but if you have a higher 'foreigner' entry fee then its only fair to provide information in other languages so we can enjoy it too. That said, I recommend a visit if you are in Cordoba as there are some great photos and...