After the steps of Pope Francis
Follow the tracks of Jorge Bergoglio before he became the highest representative of the Catholic church.
Would you like to know Pope Francis’ history? Visit Santa Fe, connect with the city’s cultural and historical heritage and with the Jesuit Order in the region. Start your journey at the Jesuit Block. Here you’ll find a museum and a church. You’ll also discover the Inmaculada Concepción school, where Bergoglio taught language and literature in 1964 and 1965.
Come and find out about the memories of former school students who lived with him and shared his Jesuit education. Discover anecdotes and old testimonies of the man who is now the Pope of the Catholic Church. Get on a tour that will tell you the story of his stay here, and recreate the steps he took around the city. Enjoy concerts and choir performances at the Guadalupe church and at Patio del Sagrado Corazón. Live it all in the Argentine Litoral region.
Geographic location: Province of Santa Fe, Argentine Litoral region.
How to get there: By air, via Sauce Viejo Airport. By land, via Ruta Nacional 9 and Autopista Rosario-Santa Fe (486 km from the city of Buenos Aires), by car or by bus.
Climate: Subtropical and humid.
Recommended length of stay: 1 to 2 days.