Misión Salesiana de Santo Domingo Travel Guide

 globetrott Says:  When walking around the Misión Salesiana de Santo Domingo you will see a lot of whalebones in the grass and also inside of the museum you will be able to learn a lot about animals of that part of the world and you will be able to see a large collection of sea-shells, bugs... 

 globetrott Says:  This building was the very first house that was built by the Salesianer monks for the Misión Salesiana de Santo Domingo at the end of the 19th century. You are not allowed to enter the building and a chain had blocked also the pedestrian path to the building, so I was not... 

 globetrott Says:  The locomovils were steam-powered vehicles, that were used partly like tracktors and partly also at the farm, where all sorts of machineries were powered that way. You will see 2 locomovils displayed in the garden of Misión Salesiana de Santo Domingo and when you get to... 

 globetrott Says:  You will see this in many places in Tierra del Fuego / Fireland :cars and other machineries are standing somewhere, rusting but not thrown away. There are several reasons for that, first of all, iron is not rusting as fast as in other parts of the world and another reason... 

 globetrott Says:  Dont miss to take a look inside the small church of the mission, it dates back to the year 1898 and it has an interesting interior. You can enter it freely and without restrictions, you just have to find the right entrance of the long fence that was built around the... 

 globetrott Says:  In front of the museum you will find this reconstruction of a traditional "house" of the native people of tierra del Fuego / Fireland. Several trunks of trees are set togeather, it has an opening at one side and moss did cover it on the bottom.Just imagine that these people... 

 globetrott Says:  The Museo Monsenor Fagnano also shows a lot of exhibits about the work of the Salesianer-monks, they first built a church and a school and tried to educate the local people how to make better agriculture and still today they have their school for agriculture there. The... 

 globetrott Says:  Museo Monsenor Fagnano is the name of the interesting museum is one of the side-buildings of the mission. You will find a lot of exhibits about the 4 native tribes, who where living in Fireland, when the monks of Don Bosco had arrived. These tribes were water-nomads,... 

 globetrott Says:  Misión Salesiana de Santo Domingo was the first mission of the catholic church in Tierra del Fuego / Fireland and still today it looks like a small village with 2 churches and a few houses and a fence around all of them. From N3, the Panamerican highway you need to drive...