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LOBOS is an old-fashioned country town with pretty, slightly crumbling houses and few pretensions to becoming a tourist destination. It is, however, the biggest town in the region, with some 30,000 inhabitants, and has a surprisingly lively nightlife that draws in people from the local towns and villages. The town's most famous son is Juan Domingo Peron, born here in 1895. The Peron Museum at Buenos Aires 1380, also known as Peron 482 (Wed-Sun 10am-noon & 3-6pm; free), first opened in 1953, but was closed by the military government in 1955 and again in 1976. It reopened in 1989 and though it lost some of its more important pieces, the museum still holds an interesting photographic archive and odd items of correspondence such as a love letter that Peron wrote to Evita when he was imprisoned on Martin Garcia. One of the more curious items is the skull of famous gaucho and outlaw, Juan Moreira, who was killed by the police in a local pulperia, La Estrella , in 1874. The skull apparently fell into the hands of Mario Peron, Juan Domingo's grandfather, who used it as a paperweight. To get to Lobos' quiet lakeside area , around 15km southwest of town - where there are picnic spots shaded by pines and eucalyptus - take the local bus which runs every couple of hours (6am-8.30pm) to the lake from the corner of Alem and 9 de Julio, opposite the train station.
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