Croeso i Patagonia!

13 February, 2011

Stories of migrants who cross the Atlantic in mid-nineteenth century in search of new horizons. Languages that have survived against all odds in southern South, testimony to the determination of those who brought them. What does the monolith photo? What place is located in Patagonia? What story lies? The answer, as always, in a week in “From Patagonia”, the original blog of the writer and traveler Gerardo Bartolomé.

byGerardo Bartolomé

Published February 13, 2011

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