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{{Infobox UNESCO World Heritage Site
| image         = AltaGracia.jpg
| image_upright = 1.2
| caption       = View of the Estancia Alta Gracia
| location      = [[Córdoba Province, Argentina|Córdoba Province]], [[Argentina]]
| includes      = 
#Jesuit Block
#Estancia of Alta Gracia
#Estancia of Jesús María
#Estancia of Santa Catalina
#Estancia of Caroya
#Estancia of La Candelaría

| criteria      = {{UNESCO WHS type|(ii), (iv)}}(ii), (iv)
| ID            = 995
| coordinates   = {{coord|31|25|14|S|64|11|28|W|region:AR|display=title, inline|format=dms}}
| year          = 2000
| area          = {{convert|38.12|ha|acre|abbr=on}}
| locmapin      = Argentina
| map_caption   = 
}}
The '''Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba''' ({{langx|es|'''Manzana Jesuítica y Estancias de Córdoba'''}}) are a former [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] [[Jesuit Reductions|reduction]] built by [[Missionary|missionaries]] in the  [[province of Córdoba, Argentina|province of Córdoba]], [[Argentina]], named a [[World Heritage Site]] in 2000.<ref name="unesco">{{cite web |title=Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/995 |publisher=UNESCO |access-date=20 August 2018}}</ref>

The ''Manzana Jesuítica'' contains the [[National University of Córdoba|University of Córdoba]], one of the oldest in [[South America]], the Monserrat Secondary School, a church, and residence buildings.<ref name="unesco"/> To maintain such a project, the Jesuits operated six ''Estancias'' (residences) around the [[provinces of Argentina|province]] of [[Córdoba Province (Argentina)|Córdoba]],<ref name=TheSix>{{cite web |title=The Road of the Jesuit Estancias (Jesuit Ranches) |url=http://www.argentinaonview.com/english/novedades16-1.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011107202721/http://www.argentinaonview.com/english/novedades16-1.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 November 2001 |access-date=20 August 2018}}</ref> named [[Colonia Caroya|Caroya]], [[Jesús María, Córdoba|Jesús María]], Santa Catalina, [[Alta Gracia]], Candelaria, and San Ignacio.<ref>The Estancia San Ignacio no longer exists, as it was reduced to rubble.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cordobaturismo.gov.ar/audioguia/236/ |title=Ruinas de San Ignacio |author=Córdoba Turismo |access-date=2018-08-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809091343/http://www.cordobaturismo.gov.ar/audioguia/236/ |archive-date=2017-08-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The farm and the complex, started in 1615, had to be left by the Jesuits, following the [[Suppression of the Jesuits|1767 decree]] by King [[Charles III of Spain]] that expelled them from the continent.<ref>Manfred Barthel. ''The Jesuits: History and Legend of the Society of Jesus''. Translated and adapted from the German by Mark Howson. William Morrow & Co., 1984, pp. 223-4.</ref> They were then run by the [[Franciscan]]s until 1853, when the Jesuits returned to [[The Americas]]. Nevertheless, the university and the high-school were nationalized a year later.

Each Estancia has its own church and set of  buildings,<ref name=TheSix/> around which towns grew, such as Alta Gracia, the closest to the Block. The Jesuit Block and the Estancias can be visited by tourists; the ''Road of the Jesuit Estancias'' is approximately {{convert|250|km|mi}} in length.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who would later become [[Pope Francis]], lived there.<ref name=litoral>{{cite news|title=Biografía de Jorge Bergoglio|language=es|url=http://www.ellitoral.com/index.php/id_um/86958|access-date=14 March 2013|publisher=El Litoral|date=14 March 2013|archive-date=15 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315233601/http://www.ellitoral.com/index.php/id_um/86958|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of Jesuit sites]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.sectur.gov.ar/eng/atra/tour/REG5/PR.HTM Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba] - Argentine Tourism Office
*[http://www.welcomeargentina.com/estanciasjesuiticas/index.html Estancias Jesuíticas] {{in lang|es}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070423185742/http://www.cba.gov.ar/canal.jsp?idCanal=33879 Images of the Estancias] - Government of Córdoba {{in lang|es}}
*[http://www.manresa-sj.org/stamps/2_Argentina.htm Jesuitic institutions in Argentina]
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[[Category:World Heritage Sites in Argentina]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Córdoba Province, Argentina]]
[[Category:Jesuit history in South America]]
[[Category:Spanish missions in Argentina]]
[[Category:Former populated places in Argentina]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Córdoba Province, Argentina]]
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