30 years of lessons from Argentina’s first pedestrian town

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“Dear visitor: we remind you that our town has been declared an environmental protection area, meaning that camping, setting fires, hunting local animals or birds, riding horses, littering outside of garbage cans, fishing in the off-season, and cutting or uprooting any kind of plant, bush or flower is not allowed within city limits.”

“Given the topography in which the town of La Cumbrecita is located, it makes the passage of cars difficult in the tourist high season,” states Resolution 10 of the municipality of La Cumbrecita, signed July 9, 1996. For that reason, “the entry of vehicles with mechanical or organic traction is prohibited from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.,” it adds.

La Cumbrecita: 30 years of lessons from Argentina’s first pedestrian town

It’s a national pioneer in adapting its streets, but residents criticize the impacts of mass tourism on a paradise from which other cities look to learn

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