In the framework of the celebrations for the 250th anniversary of the birth of Mrs. Paula Albarracín de Sarmientothe Sarmiento Birthplace – National Museum will continue today with related activities. From 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with free admission, visitors will be able to participate in “Doña Paula’s loom continues weaving,” along with weavers from different departments. They will honor the mother of the hero – “whose legacy in the art of weaving continues to inspire and unite communities” – with live demonstrations of weaving on a Creole loom. In addition, you can visit the Patio de Doña Paula, an interpretation space for domestic industries that is celebrating its first year. And from the Museum networks you can also access the QR code of the historical narrative “Doña Paula Albarracín. Her life and her plots”, made by Lic. Elina Castro.
Paula Albarracín, mother of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, was born in San Juan on June 27, 1774. About her, Sarmiento wrote in Memories of the Province: “The mother is for man the personification of providence, she is the living earth to which she adheres the heart like roots to the ground. Mine, however, God knows, is worthy of the honors of apotheosis, and I would not have written these pages, if I had not been encouraged by the desire to make, in the last years of his hard-worked life, this vindication against the injustice of luck”.
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