The closest city is three hours away by car, and the resort is inaccessible in the winter, which caused it to close in the 1950s.
At the base of the Andes in Argentina, a hauntingly abandoned hotel shuttered its doors more than 70 years ago, but it still draws guests. The haunting structure currently serves as the starting point for a tour that takes visitors to the memorial for the people who perished in the area in a tragic plane disaster in 1972.
When Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed into the mountains, up to 29 people died. However, 16 passengers managed to survive by engaging in cannibalism, which involved eating bits of the deceased’s bodies.
However, the Sosneado Hotel itself shuttered in the 1950s, long before the catastrophe.
It first opened its doors in 1938, following the vision of a posh tourism project in the mountains in his birthplace by Frank Romero Day, the Argentine minister of industry and public works at the time.
The hotel did have caretakers for a brief period of time after it closed, but it has been abandoned ever since.
Local resident and Aventura en la Montana business owner Francisco Salonia stated to the Spanish daily ABC: “The hotel was fully operational for ten to twelve years.”
“After that, it started to decrease, mostly as a result of people ceasing to visit. There were guardians for a while before it was totally abandoned.
“Today, all that’s left of a building made of concrete, stone, and iron is its roofless remains. Despite the fact that the water is not as hot as it once was, it serves as a refuge for those who continue to visit the hot springs. The distance is roughly 200 kilometers from San Rafael and 50 km on a dilapidated road from El Sosneado, a small village.”