Sierra de La Ventana is a village in

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in the southwest of the

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, Argentina. With a population of 1,819 inhabitants (), it is one of the most attractive tourist centres in the Province and has numerous recreation areas and parks. The town, originally called Villa Tívoli Argentina, was founded on 17 January 1908 by Diedrich Meyer and developed around the railway station. It was later renamed Sierra de La Ventana after the nearby 1,186 m rocky peak ''La Ventana'', part of the Sierra de la Ventana mountains, which has a natural rock formation containing an opening or 'window' 9 m wide and 11 m high. In 1959 the peak was declared a Natural Monument. A large, luxurious hotel resort,

Club Hotel de la Ventana Club Hotel de la Ventana was a large, luxurious hotel resort, built by the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway and opened in 1911 near Villa Ventana, 17 km from the town of Sierra de La Ventana, in the southeast of the Province of Buenos A ...

, was opened in 1911 near Villa Ventana, 17 km from the town. For a brief period, it attracted the rich and famous but soon suffered from the effects of

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in Europe and closed in 1920. Between 1940 and 1946 it was used to intern some of the crew of the German pocket battleship ''Admiral Graf Spee'' after it was scuttled outside the harbour of

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, by its captain,

Hans Langsdorff Hans Wilhelm Langsdorff (20 March 1894 – 20 December 1939) was a German naval officer, most famous for his command of the German pocket battleship ''Admiral Graf Spee'' during the Battle of the River Plate off the coast of Uruguay in 1939. ...

, at the end of the

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References

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PostalSerrana , Host in Sierra de la Ventana & Villa Ventana

Sierra de la Ventana portal

Tourist website

Sierra de La Ventana blog
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