Villa Gesell

The founder of the city is Carlos Idao Gesell - the son of an entrepreneur and economist of German origin Silvio Gesell . In the early 1930s, he acquired land here on the coast, which were considered “worthless” due to sand dunes, and began to strengthen the soil by planting pines and acacias . By the mid-1940s, a settlement had formed here, which he named "Villa Silvio Gesell" in honor of his father. Like his father, Carlos Gesell strove to be closer to nature, and the settlement was originally a center of naturism and vegetarianism . By the end of the 1950s, these places became very attractive for young people following the ideas of the sexual revolution , and in the 1960s they became one of the centers of the hippie movement in Argentina.

After the settlement received the status of a city in 1970, and especially after Carlos Gesell died in 1979, these territories began to be intensively built up.