They restore the ranch that inspired Molina Campos

The ranch "Los Estribos" by the artist Florencio Molina Campos, located in the town of La Reja in the Buenos Aires district of Moreno and whose fields and marshes were the setting where he painted his mythical gauchos with bulging eyes, began to be restored these days with the purpose of soon becoming a house-museum and space open to the community.

At the beginning of the 1930s, the painter arrived in that area near the Reconquista River and in 1934 built his ranch with palm tree trunks, setting up his atelier there, but in 1945 a fire destroyed the house, which was rebuilt, this time with material , and was the place of enjoyment and inspiration for the artist until his death in 1959.

"We are carrying out restoration works on the 'Los Estribos' ranch, a farm where Molina Campos lived a large part of his life, to protect our identity and then turn it into a museum and meeting space for the entire community," Mayor Mariel Fernández celebrated in his official Twitter account.

The official accompanied her post with a video where you can see the red-tiled ranch, surrounded by hundred-year-old eucalyptus trees, and the workers working on plastering the walls and painting beams and ceilings white.