RUINS OF SAN JOSÉ DE LULES

This agricultural and industrial area, which has a municipal bathing resort and a campsite, is 12 miles (20 km) away from the provincial capital.

The ruins of the San José de Lules church are a valuable testimony of the work carried out by the conquerors in the province. It was a Jesuitical reducción (settlement of converted Indians) in its first period and later the fathers of the Society of Jesus set up the first public education school in Tucumán. The place then was transferred to the Dominican fathers, who rebuilt the temple in the 18th century.