Trancas, Argentina


Trancas is a municipality in Tucumán Province, Argentina, administrative seat of Trancas Department.
The town is located in a large valley between high mountains and hills covered with forest and jungle.
Trancas was a strategic point for the defense of North and witnessed important events during the struggle for Argentina's independence.

History

The Church of the Sacred Heart was declared a National Monument in 1957.
It is built in an austere postcolonial style, with a steeple, nave and chapel of souls.
The flat façade unifies the nave with the belfry. The two overlapping gables lend originality.
The interior is simple, with a choir as a transition area at the entrance, and behind the chapel of souls.
It is built with adobe walls, plastered and whitewashed. The roof is of shingles over wood trusses.
Inside it preserves a heritage of religious art: the image of the patron saint San Joaquin, a St. Joseph and a Nazarene.
The sculptress Lola Mora was baptized here.