History

This ranch is more than two hundred years old and was first made of adobe, which can be currently found only in the water well. The construction of the farmhouse began near 1900 and was completed in 1918.

It is a typical U-shaped construction of an Argentine “criollo” and Italian styles, with galleries, a courtyard and a centenarian tangerine tree. We have also rose trees, vines and jasmines climbing up the columns of the galleries.

The house keeps its original style and is located besides a woodland of ashes and acacias, among other tree species. This ranch, which was well-known because of its hospitality when owned by Ana Haitzaguerre, a French woman who used to give the best parties in the area, also housed the revolutionaries of Libres del Sud when they rose up in 1839, by the time the farm was called La Victoria.

La Florida is the only wool-producing ranch in the area and also the only one that maintained the Merino of excellent fineness among all the past sheep-breeding farms in the Brandsen and Chascomús area, where the train reached to seek the wool bales produced in the Salado farms. Later came the Angora goats with their Mohair production and more recently, our native llamas.