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Jujuy Vacation Guide

It presents natural beauty in each one of the small towns where modern constructions mix with old buildings from the colonial time. In front of the central square, the council building is situated, as well as the Cathedral and the Government House. The oldest church is Santa Bárbara whose roof of tiles and wooden suspenders are famous.
Its modern buildings alternate with others of colonial style. The city has a modern receiving infrastructure such as comfortable hotels, restaurants, and cafeterias. It has a quite active commercial centre where you can purchase sweaters made of threads of llamita and merino, as well as several regional articles, especially in the shops of Belgrano, Alvear, Lavalle or Necochea streets. Walking around its neighbourhoods, you will get to know about its people's customs and environments, its uneven streets, and the big old houses with grating windows and flowered yards.
Whenever there is a religious festivity, people from these places walk down the mountains making up parades and playing music with typical local instruments. People from Jujuy are enthusiast of a carnival that displays singular auctonous colours. Some of the traditional festivities are la Mancha Fiesta, in La Quiaca, and El Toreo de la Vincha in Casabindo. Those who travel to this city during Christmas will have the chance to see traditional aspects such as the typical Holy Families, Christmas carols, the antique Danza de las cintas (Dance of the ribbons) or Trence y Destrence (Braiding and Unbriding) carried out by groups of children, all of them, expressions of lively significance and colouring. Carnival festivities and the Latin American National festivity of the student from September 17th, to 23th also reach singular importance.